The World's Largest (read, Only) Animated GIF Distribution Network.
No CDC's as yet. The screens themselves are super good at displaying GIFs though their fundamental constraints are:
* Not too much variable brightness per LED (so doesn't represent lots of tonal ranges brilliantly)
* 256x80 aspect ratio (the aspect ratio of a bus shelter!)
* Animations longer than 10 seconds not great due to passenger time at shelter
* Best works are those of high contrast and good separation between objects - think Frank Miller's work for best results.
Another constraint is that cocks (glass, crude or other) would need an incredibly convincing pretext to make it from the web to a screen :)
Basically we're trying to prove that the model that works online where the public both create and curate imagery/visual work should and can work just as well in an offline setting, jumping over the whole hierarchy of mediation that art in the public realm is governed by.
(, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 13:39, Reply)