About Myriorama
Myriorama is derived from the Greek words myriad, meaning "multitude" and orama meaning"scene" or "view"
The original Myriorama was invented in France in 1823 by Jean Pierre Brés.
Called a "Tableau Polyoptique", it featured 16 cards replete with a continuous horizon with castles, ruins, rivers, lakes and wandering figures making their way across an "endless landscape" with 20,922,789,888,000 variations.
More versions were created and it quickly became a craze in Victorian England where there were reports of "Myriorama Addiction".
Writers like Byron, Shelly and Bram Stoker were said to use Myriorama as a tool to plot their novels.
About DIVE BAR
Created by actor, poet and comic book artist R. Campbell, Dive Bar is the only Myriorama featuring comic book elements like captions and speech bubbles set in an underwater bar ever created.
Dive Bar seeks, with 22 cards, to create a truly immersive experience inspired by the pulp illustrations and paperback covers of the 1960’s utilizing the decidedly analog technique of the Myriorama of the 1800’s.
The all original artwork and text of Dive Bar was created by
R. Campbell
in 2023.
Other works by R. Campbell
include a comic book, The Simply Unpossibles
and a graphic poem,The Haunted Saxophone
and he created The Tarot of Why,
(a 78 card tarot deck with companion book featuring 78 poems.)
R. Campbell is the founder and CEO of Soar Feat Unlimited (www.soarfeat.org)
