DobbsWorld, LemurLand animation on alt.binaries.slack

There's more animation on alt.binaries.slack today, with each piece posted in 4 formats: MPEG, RM, Quicktime MOV and Windows Media WMV. The Quicktime versions are by far the best, but our experiments have proved that the world is full of SubGenii who for whatever reasons can only get ONE of each of those 4 main formats to play.

Some of these animations are basically super-fast slide shows of artwork posted to a.b.s. in the past. For instance, every piece of art I have done on a computer in my WHOLE LIFE equals 1 minute and 40 seconds (with music by Lamprey Systems).

However, JUST the first 3 MONTHS of 1999's art by Fernandinande Lemur runs for 2 full minutes (at 2 fps). That one has "music" by me -- music made from samples of the recording of Pastor Craig's wrestling injury at 4X Day, as it happens.

Were I do dump everything that Fernandinande (or IMBJR) has posted to a.b.s. into the Quicktime stills-to-movie converter, it would make a movie over seven hundred centuries long (at 2 frames per second).

2 fps seems to work well for images, it's just long enough for them to PROGRAM YOUR MIND, plus it also fits the 120 beats per minute pace of most techno music home computer presets.

I will put these on SubSITE eventually, but we have to do it somehow on the cheap because these, though short as films, are big as downloads, like the radio shows. Some are 10 to 20 mb. Not within our bandwidth quota, no sirree, not if every Tom Pick and Henry started getting them off SubSITE.

thus, alt.binaries.slack.

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Subject: Re: AVI versions of Dobbs-mation on ABS
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Ellis Dee <fxtrt22@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote
>
> Did anybody see the "Art-Toons" or "slide show movies of the LeMur art,
> my artful awfullnesses, and Burning Man?>
>
> Yes, I tried to view the Quicktime versions, which started out well but
> crapped out and froze my computer halfway through

SUCCESS!! The formula is complete. Now I can move on to the Monitor
Melter.

Theoretically, you should be able to frame-by-frame through those QT
movies, by pushing your arrow keys. That will WARM your computer and
prevent it from freezing. Sort of like priming the pump on a small gas
motor.

I sympathize... before I got this new computer, even smaller animations
would lock up my system. Nowadays I have to REALLY add a lot of extra
color and mind control to these new ones, to get ANYBODY's equipment to
crash.

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Original file name: Animations on a.b.s. - converted on Monday, 21 July 2003, 13:44