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About Safari: A Photicular Book
Product Description A magical journey. A safari in your hands. Animals in living motion, as real as if you were there. The cheetah bounds, the lion charges. The African elephant snaps its ears. Using unique Photicular technology, Safari is the adventure of a lifetime, and a book unlike any other. Experience it for yourself. Review "Shots of cheetahs, rhinos, and gazelles spring to life as the pages turn." —Entertainment Weekly “An imaginative interpretation of the real thing.” —Audubon magazine "Lenticular technology takes a big leap forward with this virtual safari."—PW magazine “AMAZING! The safari comes to life with each turn of the page.” —Jennifer Holland, bestselling author of Unlikely Friendships “Lenticular technology takes a big leap forward with this virtual safari.” ―PW magazine ― Entertainment Weekly “Shots of cheetahs, rhinos, and gazelles spring to life as the pages turn.” ―Entertainment Weekly ― Audubon magazine “An imaginative interpretation of the real thing.” ―Audubon magazine From the Back Cover A magical journey. A safari in your hands. Animals in living motion, as real as if you were there. The cheetah bounds, the lion charges. The African elephant snaps its ears. Using unique Photicular technology, SAFARI is the adventure of a lifetime, and a book unlike any other. Experience it for yourself. About the Author Dan Kainen is an artist, designer, and inventor living in New York City. He is the creator of the bestselling Photicular books Safari, Ocean, Polar, Jungle, and Wild. His website is DanKainen.com. While working with some of the pioneers of holography, Dan created a special spotlight that was used by Soho’s Museum of Holography to light holograms. The related field of holography led to Dan’s interest in lenticular art and, in turn, after nearly a decade of research and experimentation, to the creation of his “Motion Viewer,” his third patent in that field and the inspiration for Safari and the other Photicular books. Carol Kaufmann is the author of 97 Ways to Make a Cat Like You and co-author of the bestselling Photicular books Safari, Ocean, and Polar (Oct. 2015). A freelance writer and editor, her work for National Geographic and other publications has taken her to all corners of the globe, from the Pacific Ocean’s floor to the top the Atlas Mountains. In addition to National Geographic, her writing has appeared in the New York Times’ Draft column, Reader’s Digest, where she was the National Affairs Reporter, The Washington Post, George, and in the anthology A Woman’s Europe. She is also the author of the ebook, MamaTricks. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION Dan Kainen My grandfather was an inventor, my father was an artist, and as a boy, I loved performing magic. So I like to think that these Photicular images are a direct result of generational influences, merging innovation, art, and magic. Photicular imaging is an old technology—“lenticular,” or “integrated” photography, done in a new way. Individual video frames are sliced into very thin, adjacent strips to create one master-image. On its own, it just looks blurry, as if all the images were overlapped, but slide a sheet of thin lenses over the master-image—and it comes alive in fluid, film-like motion. The beauty of an animal moving is another kind of magic that has fascinated me since childhood: the thrilling grace of a cheetah as it streaks across the grassland, the incongruous gentleness of a fierce-looking silverback gorilla quietly chewing plants, or the delicate gait of a young zebra trotting across the savanna. (The Jungle Book and Man-Eaters of Kumaon were early favorites.) As Carol Kaufmann recounts in her essay, which opens this book, there is nothing more powerful than watching an animal in its natural habitat. That’s why a safari seemed like a natural fit for the first Photicular bo
