Persistence of Vision

Tonight, I’m doing a “Persistence of Vision Example”. Allow me to explain.
Take you hand and wave it in front of you really fast. What do you see? If you answered “A sculpture of aliens coming down from the sky and abducting your kid sister”, get your eyes checked. What you should have seen was whatever was on the other side of your hand.
In this project, I will be using a piece of paper taped to a stick (pen, pencil, something like that). The piece of paper will have a drawing on both sides. The idea is for someone to be able to take the stick between their hands rotate it quickly, making the two images on either side of the paper, to appear to be the same image. Lets see how this is going to work.
(Time passes)
So…. it kind of works. Lining the images up was a pain. And half the picture doesn’t work. But the weird half does… mostly. I showed it to some friends and they said that they could tell what it was. Sense I can’t scan the images into my computer and post these on my space, I’ll just tell you what it is (the half that works).
On one side is a stick suspended in air. To the right is a box. Underneath him: the ground. On the other side is the hangman pole. So, when you rotate the two images on the stick, you see a man who has been hung. I know it sounds morbid, but it was the easiest thing to do.