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Do you find the above image distracting? If it were on a billboard and you were driving, would you get into an accident? Duluth is seeking to restrict electronic billboards, which at this point is a little silly I think. The signs are not yet animated. They are static images, that maybe have one to three frames per advertisement. The motion is limited. LED signs have been in use for at least two decades I think. I don't know how many people crash their car looking what time it is on the bank sign. Who knows, the temperatures are surprising in Duluth, so perhaps someone has gotten distracted by a Walgreen's display.
If billboards become televisions, then yes, they need to be regulated. Otherwise, it's just a way to display information that doesn't require paper and paste, which seems like a positive change from decaying billboards.
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You know, I had this crazy notion of looking up my old internet buddy Myrth and look what I found: that wonderful animated gif that I had made all those years ago here to haunt me. :)
Posted by: Mikie | March 29, 2007 8:56 PM
People tends to get distracted while driving when they look at those dynamic billboards. After all they are humans too.
Posted by: abhishek - web designer | March 4, 2008 5:03 AM
If some useful info being displayed on those bill boards then it will reduce the crashing of cars.
Posted by: deb | March 4, 2008 5:12 AM
A window into the past that shows how printing was first discovered!
Long before the wooden blocks or the clay imprints.. was it just a couple of guys sitting around the fire thinking up new ideas?
see for yourself in this 43 second video (humor)
The History of Printing?
Posted by: Frank | May 7, 2008 9:52 AM
Hi
Animation is a very special form of media. It allows the complete representation of reality. Funny animation draws the attention of the viewers to enter with an aim. The Web site, presentations, demonstrations of product, advertisements, public exposure must have a certain funny substance of animation to attract the reader or the televiewers. It is very easy maintaining using computer, of software and tools. To produce graphs of animation and the manufacture of them animated is also funny work. Animation can not be so powerful but usually employed and appreciated. reality simply 'to seem T rather true.
Funny animation is the process to bind a series of funny diagrams slightly different of cartoon to simulate a movement together. There is normally of 24 or less images a second in mobile film and him occur similar in GIFs animated which you see on Web sites.
Posted by: Abhishek - Web Programmer | January 17, 2009 7:08 AM
Well billboards can be distracting at times but at the same time to think of it as a probable cause for car crashes is a bit unusual.We of course cannot do away with billboards..it's advisable we do not pay much attention to billboards at the time of driving.Life is precious after all.
Posted by: Graphic Design India | July 7, 2009 4:45 AM