Experiments
Humble attempts at anaglyph and stereoscopy. View with Magenta+Cyan glasses.
Persistence of Nostalgia: Old Man of Marshmallow Drive
A nonsense poem brought to life — BFA thesis, Parsons School of Design
The Old Man of Marshmallow Drive is a 2D animation originally conceived as a 3D anaglyph film, designed to be watched through stereoscopic glasses reminiscent of vintage Viewmaster toys. The film visualises a nonsense poem — written in the tradition of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, and Satyajit Ray — following an old man through a richly coloured, impossible landscape where the logic of the absurd governs every frame.
The project forms the centrepiece of Persistence of Nostalgia, a BFA thesis in Communication Design at Parsons School of Design (2013), exploring media archaeology: how obsolete and emerging technologies — the phenakistoscope, the anaglyph, the Viewmaster — can be revived and reframed to tell new stories. Nostalgia, here, is not sentiment but a design strategy.
