Welcome to Random Motion's iPod animation page, where for $5, you can order five animated sequences by Ruth Hayes to download and play on your iPod Photo or Video.  

How to soothe the savage beast?
         These iPod animations, offshoots of Random Motion, explore the free zone between animated and still images and is outgrowth of my work making flipbooks.

Flipbooks, and other pre-cinema devices such as thaumatropes, and zoetropes, are "philosophical toys"–toys that make you question the illusions they reveal. Between 1979 and 1990, I designed and published nineteen flipbooks and sold them at stores and by mail order. I still sell several from my web site, Random Motion. Many of them have gone out of print, however, and have been waiting in the wings for new opportunities to come to life.

Two amphibians warm up to each other


An all-consuming relationship
 Digital technology offers such an opportunity in the form of the iPod Photo. If you download these files of animated images, you can enjoy the handheld freedoms of a flipbook, flipping forward or backward through sequences , or pausing to “read” a picture more closely.

With an iPod Photo instead of flipping pages, you scroll through images. This scrolling motion even allows you to “scratch” the animation to play with the mini-cycles within each sequence, or retro-fit the motion to sync with music from another source! I’m happy to offer the five titles on this page to you, newly resurrected for the digital age.
        

The former President demonstrates his "hands-off" management style

A general's demons get the better of him

Click on the "Buy Now" button to pay for the sequences through PayPal. I will email you zipped files and instructions for downloading within 2 days of receiving notice of your payment. After you receive the files and unzip them, follow the simple installation instructions to load the animation onto your iPod.

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Copyright Ruth Hayes 2005