A Hat Tip to Eadweard Muybridge

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A Hat Tip to Eadweard Muybridge

Muybridge Hat
You’ve perhaps seen Eadweard Muybridge’s Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, an early experiment that led to the development of motion pictures. This fantastic knitted cap pattern by Ravelry user Leah B. Thibault perfectly honors Muybridge’s contribution to cinema. Luckily, there’s no need to make anyone dizzy by testing it out; here’s an animated GIF of the knitted incarnation of this early motion picture:

Muybridge Zoetrope Hat

[via CRAFT]

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2 thoughts on “A Hat Tip to Eadweard Muybridge

  1. Anonymous says:

    Fantastic.

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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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