Wednesday, August 27, 2008

You know you want something called a "Vladmaster."




Remember Viewmasters?

I must have had hundreds of Viewmaster reels. You used to even get them at tourist sites, so you could go watch mini-slides to remind you of your vacation at Busch Gardens or Niagra!

i welcome the renaissance of this art form with open arms (and a finger cramp from the clicky-thing).


Vladmaster Kafka Reel Set
$18.00
Vladmasters are handmade View-Master™ reels designed, photographed, and hand-assembled by Vladimir. They make use of toys, neglected household objects, and odd ephemera to tell 28-picture tales of train chases, missing steam shovels, disastrous dinner parties, and overly adventurous cockroaches.In addition to well-known longer works such as The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and The Castle, Franz Kafka wrote a series of parables. These parables are brief and enigmatic re-imaginings of traditional mythic and historic figures. Poseidon grows bored with the sea; Alexander the Great is overcome by the weight of his own body; and the desecration of a temple becomes a ritual event for its worshippers. When Vladimir was much younger she painted the words to several of these parables, in English and German, inside of the storm drains of Corvallis, Oregon. Due to the fact that she used water-based paint, they have almost certainly been washed away by now. This set consists of four handmade Vladmaster reels and a charming box in which to keep them. The reels feature 3D images of dioramas and characters designed, photographed and hand-assembled by Vladimir.

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