Many of the mishaps in folktales could be remedied if the protagonists knew some scientific principles.
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Looking at things upside down or sideways can be fascinating. It’s even more fun when the object you are looking at doesn’t appear to be upside down or sideways because it makes sense the way it is. The same picture seen upside up and upside down may look like completely different pictures or words. Like pig and bid, depending on how you draw the g, so it looks like a B upside down.
Peter Newell is an artist, a storyteller, and a magician. He can tell a story from start to finish with one drawing – all you have to do is turn it upside down. His pictures fool the reader’s eye. They look completely different when you invert them. A palm tree becomes a leg. A monster becomes a duck. A ship becomes a bird. The stories are short and funny. The art is an astonishment every time I look at it. The current version is hard cover. Here is the cover of the original paperback version upside up. Here is an ambigram story from the middle of the book: And here is the final text ambigram, which is one word or two words, depending how you look at it. All the pages are short stories with beginnings and endings being the same picture upside down. Here are some more ambigrams: Here are the websites I used to research this article, and a few to play with and make your own ambigrams:
https://www.pinterest.com/rett/two-way-drawings/ https://www.pinterest.com/shanethowell/ambigram/ https://www.wowtattoos.com/collections/asymmetrical-ambigrams?page=4 ambigram generator: https://fontmeme.com/ambigram-font/ https://flipscript.com/en/flip https://newikis.com/en/Ambigram https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Ambigram https://www.qedcat.com/articles/ambigram.pdf http://www.palindromelist.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram http://mediafervor.com/ambigram-logo-design/
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Lois Wickstrom
former head science teacher at Science in the City Summer Camp. Now writing STEM fiction and non-fiction Archives
March 2022
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