We visited my parents in NYC this weekend, and while we were there we went to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Too bad it's too far for a field trip, because it had a lot of of kid-friendly activities.
In one spot they had still cameras mounted overhead which were pointed down at a flat desk with a marked frame. On the desk there were cut-outs of characters and props as well as backgrounds to use to make a stop action video. One could position the cut-outs, and then press a button to take a picture. Once you had a sequence of photos, you could watch your video play back on a screen.
Similarly, in another room, they supplied black paper and scissors so you could make a silhouette stop action animation. There they used cameras and laptops running iStopAnimation to make the videos.
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| Zoey is my brother's dog. |
Another fun part of the exhibit was the Translation Party. If you texted a sentence to the given phone number, it would be projected on a wall, then electronically translated to Japanese and projected onto the wall again. Then the Japanese was translated back to English, and then back to Japanese, with each translation projected. The Translation Party stopped when 2 consecutive English and Japanese translations stayed the same. Those final versions made no sense. Maybe digital translation has a ways to go...
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| Too small to see? |
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