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This is a link post Bus Tops
Now this looks like a promising new playground.. has anyone spotted these yet?

edit: challenge is, who's going to post the first animated cdc and have it photographed on display from a bus?
 (eight, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 9:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh that's what they are
There's one on East Ferry Road in Docklands and its been bugging the hell out of me because its in a really flat area next to the park and there's almost no way to see what's going on up there.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 10:45, , Reply)
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If you go on tip-toes at the top of the hill you can just about make it out. Do you live around there?
 (Bus-Tops The World's Largest (and only) Animated GIF Distro, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 13:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Interesting
Makes a change from the inevitable array of shoes and vinyl LPs you get on top of bus stops round my way.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 11:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post That there London is a right shithole.

(pissflaps. FSPW, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 11:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Right, but it's so large it has it's own gravity
So it's more of a shitblackhole
 (I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sun 29 Jan 2012, 11:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't it?

(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 29 Jan 2012, 11:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (Bus-Tops The World's Largest (and only) Animated GIF Distro, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 13:39, , Reply)