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Kick the Chair and Gamble a Stamp.
Dec. 31st, 2010 10:51 amComics. If you read'em as a kid (and I'm talking 1950's and 1960's here), you will have seen thousands of ads for everything under the sun. Something that got posted over at Teresa Burritt's Frog Applause strip got me thinking down this line, and I ended up doing a real Spaziergang down memory lane.
As mentioned, Teresa's Frog Blog had an entry with a video ad for one of K-Tel's pantographic E-Z Tracer. I actually had one of these K-Tel tracers. I recall the results were pretty clunky. However, the video made me think of another thing I had, the "Magic Art Reproducer."
When I saw the ad for this, I knew I had to have one. What I thought I would be getting was a form of camera obscura, but what I actually received was a little plastic gimmick that you would clamp to a drawing board and peep through. With an angled mirror (and some orange smoke and unholy chanting) it would provide the illusion of what you were looking at projected onto your drawing paper, and then you could (supposedly) trace around it. And it never worked very well either. Hunting around for the "Magic Art Reproducer" ad is what catalyzed my fit of nostalgia.
[Edit: Apparently I didn't know how to use the thing properly, if you believe what this artist has to say...]
Keep clicking on any of the images to see maximum resolution.
( Much more under the mercy-cut. )
Cross-posted to Wordpress 8-29-2012
As mentioned, Teresa's Frog Blog had an entry with a video ad for one of K-Tel's pantographic E-Z Tracer. I actually had one of these K-Tel tracers. I recall the results were pretty clunky. However, the video made me think of another thing I had, the "Magic Art Reproducer."
When I saw the ad for this, I knew I had to have one. What I thought I would be getting was a form of camera obscura, but what I actually received was a little plastic gimmick that you would clamp to a drawing board and peep through. With an angled mirror (and some orange smoke and unholy chanting) it would provide the illusion of what you were looking at projected onto your drawing paper, and then you could (supposedly) trace around it. And it never worked very well either. Hunting around for the "Magic Art Reproducer" ad is what catalyzed my fit of nostalgia.
[Edit: Apparently I didn't know how to use the thing properly, if you believe what this artist has to say...]
Keep clicking on any of the images to see maximum resolution.
( Much more under the mercy-cut. )
Cross-posted to Wordpress 8-29-2012
