Friday, January 29, 2010

Masstransiscope!

I finally found out the story behind the zoetrope-like subway mural seen from the Manhattan-bound Q or B trains, between De Kalb Avenue and the Manhattan Bridge.

According to the Masstransiscope blog, the animated mural was created by Bill Brand around 1980 and installed in the former Myrtle Avenue subway station. Apparently the mural in the abandoned station was also essentially abandoned at some point, but it was restored in 2008.

I took a video clip of the animation in December and caught most of it, I think. I'm RE-POSTING it here for convenience:



My first post on this was in October 2008, featuring a different clip. Masstransiscope remains by far my favorite work of subway art.