This week’s prompt challenge word is pretty similar in feel to the word from last week. As I read the usage examples, I thought I’d concentrate on words or concepts that caused a big change in society, or that had a noticeable before and after. The NY Times had a quite startling interactive feature after the tsunami in Japan — they showed before and after photos side-by-side. There is a bar in the middle you drag — go all the way to the right to see the before, all the way to the left to see the tsunami destruction.
Not wanting to get too complicated, I remembered a mechanical paper structure sometimes called “dissolving views.” Below is an example held by the Smithsonian Libraries. The idea is that a contrasting image is revealed when a tab is pulled. (There’s a nice PDF about a pop-up exhibition at the Smithsonian that included the book below).
I found instructions for a version with 2 panels in David Carter’s book Elements Of Pop Up: A Pop Up Book For Aspiring Paper Engineers. On-line the blog Altered Ego has a dissolving card template that seemed promising.
My idea was to find contrasting images for half a dozen words. But time ran out, and I was only able to make a model using each temple for one word.
The one below uses the technique from Carter’s book.
This one uses this template. It’s a fiddly thing to make, has many more cuts than the first version and requires quite a bit more precision. But it captures my intent more than the version above.
(About the photos I used: The woman washing is from here. The man doing laundry is from by Andrew Olney \ Getty Images.)
Next word: filiopietistic: noun. Of or relating to an often excessive veneration of ancestors or tradition.
I really like this Susan. I’ve been wanting to try a dissolving view for ages but feel daunted by the precision required. You’ve inspired me to have a go soon, so thanks for that, Angie