“Decades ago, stumbling upon a screen saver in a shared living room—or perhaps finding an entire office full of them at lunchtime, cubicles lambent with workers’ judiciously chosen modules—likely signaled your own solitude. When you’re watching one intentionally, that feeling never arrives.”
“The screensaver displays a cinematic slideshow of jpeg images. The cinematic motion includes zooming in, zooming out, and panning. This motion adds a suprisingly effective mood to each image. In addition, you can listen to music from a CD, from mp3 files, or from an iTunes playlist.”
Other Media Thread
Found this oatmeal comic on the backfire effect
Ignored, Scorned…Vindicated. The maverick scientists whose heretical ideas were proven correct…
Meet 40 mavericks & heretics of science whose “crackpot” ideas were proven correct. Eventually.
infographic:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/mavericks-and-heretics/
The forgotten joys of the screen saver.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05/23/salvation-mode/
“Decades ago, stumbling upon a screen saver in a shared living room—or perhaps finding an entire office full of them at lunchtime, cubicles lambent with workers’ judiciously chosen modules—likely signaled your own solitude. When you’re watching one intentionally, that feeling never arrives.”
“The screensaver displays a cinematic slideshow of jpeg images. The cinematic motion includes zooming in, zooming out, and panning. This motion adds a suprisingly effective mood to each image. In addition, you can listen to music from a CD, from mp3 files, or from an iTunes playlist.”
http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~gstitt/motionpicture/instructions.html