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Idle Screenings
A content delivery network performance.
Network Status:
Offline
How it Works
Each day, you can interact with our content network in the following three ways:
- Install our screensaver, to have content sent to you while you're away.
- Browse our blog, barely noticing thousands of animated gifs.
- Download our presentation, start the slideshow, walk away.
Schedule
The Idle Screenings content delivery network performance will run for five days straight.
| Content | Dates | Direct Links |
|---|---|---|
| Avatar | March 5th, 2012 | Browse Download |
| The Dark Knight | March 6th, 2012 | Browse Download |
| Transformers | March 7th, 2012 | Browse Download |
| Inception | March 8th, 2012 | Browse Download |
| The Hangover | March 9th, 2012 | Browse Download |
FAQ
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What does the screensaver do?
The screensaver turns on while you're gone, and streams the content of the day to your computer. There is no audio.
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What about the presentation?
Each slideshow contains one frame-per-slide, and runs at one slide-per-second, end-to-end. There is no audio.
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Why aren't the GIFs looping?
A bug in Chrome.
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Why do this?
Idle Screenings works to investigate:
- Content containers as content
- The ubiquity of consumer access to content
- The shift in the perceptual value of content as it is shared
About the Project
We all watch content — it permeates our lives.
Idle Screenings thanks you for stopping by.