Hasta La Gadget!

This is Noteboek, a short film by Dutch artist Evelien Lohbeck. It is also the product promo for the best multipurpose gadget that ever lived, a little notebook whose pages bring drawings to life. Geeky life.

Many of our childhoods were filled with such things. I’m old enough to remember drawing pretend computers into my school notebooks, which, when not ignoring geography lessons to work on my comic book “Extreme Team”, was my main school pass-time.

Lohbeck actually has a computer, though, so he was able to make his fantasies real. This meta rabbit-hole, using a computer to make a notebook into a non-computer, continues in the short film. YouTube becomes the portal through which real-life enters, only to be corrupted again by paper machines, including an amazing pop-up toaster.

Check Lohbeck’s site for more — Noteboek actually contains some other shorts made separately. In all, a fantastic little movie. And is it just me, or do you all want one of these magic books?

Movie page [Evelien Lohbeck via the Giz]