leopardflip

And now, as they say, something completely different: a refreshingly concise multimedia presentation, as Painter Worship week draws to a close.

This artifact is powered by proprietary technology I call LeopardFlip(tm), which marries Leopard (the new Macintosh operating system) to the Jing Project (a screen capture utility).

An Early Concept Illustration

The engine is Leopard's folder view, which shows a preview of the first page of each file within a given folder. As one scrolls through the files, the first pages of each file are displayed in sequence. Jing is a free app that captures screencasts; that is, it records what's going on on your desktop and saves the recording as a video file.

In essence, I created individual documents in a word processing application, used Leopard to display the first pages of each document as slides, then recorded the folder window as I scrolled through the files. Click on the window below to start the show.


Click to start the show.


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In the spirit of Modernism, shareware, and open source apps, I will now do what Sol LeWitt would have done, were he with us now. That is, I will offer precise instructions as to how any artist, artist's assistant, or art student can reproduce the work exactly as it appears here. If you do embark on such an endeavor, I wish you the best of fortune, asking only that you report outcomes to these pages.

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