What kind of flipbooks did you used to draw?

Just the other day, a co-worker and I were reminiscing about when we were young, and how we could keep ourselves entertained without a ton of gadgets.

Like tossing a coin to see who could get closest to the line.  Like bouncing a racquetball against a brick wall and playing ‘homerun.’  Like making those paper fortune tellers that looked like AUDREY 2 to see who you were gonna fall in love with.

Like flipbooks.

Mine were generally idiotic and involved dramatic car crashes or some perverted genitalia adventure or some such stuff.  Whatever I could do during a school day – that was the length of my flipbook passions.

I was such an amateur.  Check out what this teenager did.

It proves that we don’t need a whole lot of gadgets to make a movie.

I’m glad I learned how to edit by mastering the ‘pause’ and ‘record’ button between two VCRs.; but even so,  I wonder what I would’ve created in my backyard if I had the luxury of today’s technology.

Sure, it’s a lot easier now to make quality product, and I’m glad for that.  It’s a great unifier for many people, and I love how it evens the playing field for many of us.

But then again… if you really had the passion… you didn’t really need a whole lot of gadgets.

You didn’t need much at all.

All you’d need would be a pen and paper and a whole lotta time.

Good stuff.