Screen capture various parts of the site every 5 seconds and string them all together and play them back as a movie.
-- sartep, Jul 27 2003

and we'd want to do this because?
-- neilp, Jul 27 2003


How would the necessary scrolling to follow the leading edge of the thread be carried out? Manually?
-- bristolz, Jul 27 2003


It's art.
-- sartep, Jul 27 2003


Well, it'd be a still life once the thread descended below the bottom of the frame which would be about, oh, 10 minutes elapsed time, or 120 frames (8 seconds of playback [at 15fps]), on an average thread during a busy time.
-- bristolz, Jul 27 2003


I don't get this.
-- Pericles, Jul 27 2003


I'm talking about all the other ideas, like time lapse the recent page or the overview. Watch as things cycle, recycle and pop up.
-- sartep, Jul 27 2003


but they just move about - they don't unfold like a flower..
-- po, Jul 27 2003


Boring, pointless and stupid. That's okay. A lot of other art is too.
-- waugsqueke, Jul 27 2003


I'm sorry Jutta, if you thought I was trying to pass off crap as art.

Waugs, yes I'll give you that.

Po, true it doesn't unfold like a flower.
-- sartep, Jul 28 2003


//Art is no excuse for crap// unless your name is Ofili.
-- po, Jul 28 2003


Or LeRoy Neiman.
-- bristolz, Jul 28 2003



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