Tokyo subway tunnel as zoetrope - all the info

[Thomas Lamarre]

Jason,

Thanks for this information.  It has some great leads.  I wanted to mention
that it is also interesting that this is not in some particularistic way,
Japanese.  The animation-by-train makes visible an intersection of 'new'
media and urban spaces that leads to questions about contemporary
transformations in spectatorship and urban experience (among other things).
It makes me wonder what Japan might be in this sort of media space.

Tom 

> Found this article about the US origin of this technology:
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> http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2003/dec03/dec15/1_mon/news5monday.html
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> And the British side:
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0%2C4273%2C3982005%2C00.html
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> It just seemed to me like something that would've been
> invented in Japan, but it obviously wasn't. Although
> surely Japan is a leader in ads stuck to subway train
> floors? Most recently life-size ads for digital weight
> scales...ugh
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