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Daniel Roth is a multi-media artist born in St. Louis. His oil paintings have won awards and his illustrations have appeared in the NewYorker and The New York Times Book Review.
Years ago, Daniel was a winner in a contest for BLACK+DECKER dustbuster®. His entry featured an antique animation machine , or zoetrope. The images he painted in oil paint depicted the Statue of Liberty with a DUSTBUSTER® handheld vacuum. As the zoetrope was set in motion, she was repeatedly pummeled with garbage and then knelt down to vacuum up the mess. Daniel's prize-winning zoetrope was put on display in the BLACK+DECKER headquarters.
in 2024 Daniel started again making zoetropes, praxinoscopes, and other animation machines. Zoetropes are contraptions that spin like a record player and feature sequential images facing the middle of the spinning device. When the viewer gazes at wheel from the side, the tiny spaces between the images allow brief glimpses of the images. These glimpses behave like the strobe effect used in film to create an illusion of motion.
Praxinoscopes create a similar effect, by adding a series of mirrors at the center of the wheel.