This TED Talk features visual artist Eric Dyer, recorded live at TEDx Charlottesville, 2016.

A long time ago, I was a professional animator.

And... And during, at night, I would make my own experimental films.

And I was spending a lot of time,

great too much time in front of a screen for work that would be presented on a screen.

And I had this great need to get my hands back on the work again.

Now, before The Simpsons, before Gumby, before Betty Boop, before there was such a thing as cinema and television, animation was hugely popular in this form.

This is a zoetrope

and you spin this drum

and you look through the slits

into the inside of the drum

and you see the animation pop to life

this is animation in physical form

and it's animation I could get my hands on again

I took these ideas to Denmark.

I went there with my family on a Fulbright Fellowship.

It's my daughter, Mia.

And I rode around the city on my bicycle and shot all the interesting moving elements of Copenhagen.

The boaters in the canals, the colors that explode in spring, the free-use city bikes,

love, textures, the healthy cuisine.

And I brought all that video back into the physical world by printing it out on these long strips of inkjet paper and cutting out the forms.

Now, I invented my own form of the zoetrope, which remove the drum and replace the slits with a video camera.

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