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NET.ART: Wars Grind Things To A Halt

03.05.07

A web work that demonstrates how a browser window might 'grind to a halt' by (re)streaming online content.


The particular analogy is 'war'. All (re)streamed videos are war related subsequently grinding the computer system that it is loaded on to a halt.

WARS GRIND THINGS TO A HALT
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http://warsgrindthingstoahalt.megrimm.net/

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Text from related email conversation below:

--- carlos katastrofsky
wrote:

> yeah, great. imagine the fight of the software with
> all those bits and
> bytes...
>
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:03:09 +0100,
> wrote:
>
> > it's great.
> > palmtop - black screen. no change.
> >
> > lattitude D505 laptop - gray background w/ white
> boxes.. each flls in
> > with black movie and a play button, from the top
> down with no other
> > particular order.
> > there was still 146 items left to load from the
> beggining of writing
> > this letteruntil now (approx. 3/4 loaded) boxes
> still black. clost
> > controle of the browser window. invasion complete.
> browser window
> > tried to jum into the whole screen, i forced it to
> a background via
> > alt.TAB
> > browser interface remained inaccessible, with zero
> element of
> > interaction or controle. unable to crash the
> program through the
> > explorer bar at the bottom of the screen.
> Alt.ctrl.Delete - the
> > background image of my desktop scrolled down from
> the to of the
> > screen. i opened Task Manager.. then the prior
> command through
> > explorer bar finalized.
> > an all round enjoyable experience. contemplating
> the possibilities
> > behind each play button.. what footage could it
> have been? i wanted to
> > open the link again to try and get a box to play
> some footage.
> >
> > some new mac - boxes were black with the play
> button, with no other
> > results.
> >
> >
> > Quoting Chiara Passa :
> >
> >> Oh.. i can't open the page my firefox crashes...
> >>
> >> http://megrimm.net/content/netart/wars/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/23/06, mark edward grimm
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> i can get it to see about 10 or 11 at the most.
> on my
> >>> fastest system... maybe i should lessen the
> amount of
> >>> vids and increase the size so that a little more
> show
> >>> up...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- carlos katastrofsky
>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> hehe... i like this. tried to open it and
> didn't
> >>>> even see one movie
> >>>> running before my computer crashed.
> >>>> :-)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:58:55 +0100, mark edward
> >>>> grimm
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > i remember a conversation carlos and i had a
> while
> >>>> > back about a netart piece that crashes the
> >>>> > computer/browser (i think it was somthing
> like
> >>>> this).
> >>>> > i have been messing around with google video.
> the
> >>>> > following link is the top fifty videos in
> >>>> google.video
> >>>> > under the keyword "war". All videos attempt
> to
> >>>> play
> >>>> > simultaneously. the processor gets so
> strained
> >>>> that it
> >>>> > renders the computer almost useless... i only
> wish
> >>>> > that more vids played at once before the
> computer
> >>>> gave
> >>>> > up... maybe my system is slow.... also seems
> best
> >>>> if
> >>>> > you leave it running for an hour or so..!!
> ha..
> >>>> >

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