Sunday, January 26, 2014

Week 4: The Miracle of Gates

India Gate, New Delhi, India
Arc de Triumph, Paris, France
     Though gates are often used as a means of keeping things separate and controlled.. such as border-crossings, airport screening areas, and cattle chutes... they also can have that curious aura of mystery, surprise, welcome, and tribute. The book-of-the-week for Week 4 is titled, The Miracle of Gates.
a pop-up book of gates...
   The Miracle of Gates is a pop-up book that explores gates with a variety of pull-tab pop-up mechanisms. Directions to make the various pull-tab structures exhibited in The Miracle of Gates can be found in a number of reference books including: The Elements of Pop-Up, by David A. Carter and James Diaz; Paper Engineering for pop-up books and cards, by Mark Hiner; and Pop-Up design and paper mechanics, by Duncan Birmingham.

The cover.. a dissolving scene of a tropical Eden..
The cover has a dissolving scene of the title that transforms into a photograph of a tropical rainforest when the side-tab is pulled.
... a dissolving gate to see the title
Title page of recycled word cut-outs
  The text is created from words to resemble those cut from magazines.... The first pull tab structure is a simple pull strip behind a window. My friend, Miriam, sketched the lovely little gate and stone walkway. Push or pull the tab to see what to do...
Keep your... edge
Keep your ....Passion!
The second pull-tab is a slot guided double slide. This image hides behind the gate until the tab is pulled. ...EXOTIC CURIOSITIES...

a mystery behind the gate...
tab pulled out: a creepy blue guy...
The next page is a slot-guided (single) slide of a boy behind a gate and a part of the text on the pull tab... Like the earlier page, the boy also moves behind the gate panel...
Tab pushed in.. a boy behind the gate
pull tab to see FUTURE..
Turning Your FUTURE ....to More Than
Remembering
Though not exactly a pull tab, the next page is a rotating wheel that requires a sort of pushing along...
a rotating wheel of traveling ANTS!
The dissolving scene of the cover is repeated in the next page...getting Your wish. The top scene is a cityscape of bleak apartment windows. When the tab is pulled, the scene changes to a lush tropical garden...
a sliding window..
a garden oasis...
   The last pop-up is a pull-tab flap. The flap rises when the tab is pulled and can be used to reveal a hidden image.
a WELCOME mat at the gate...
pull to see... the miracle
When the little flap pop-up is swung open, the words the miracle appear... 
Then turn the page, to...

life....