by the way (something interesting)
Dec. 14th, 2007 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kip_w.
Apologies to everybody who already knew this and, perhaps, tried repeatedly to tell me about it, but I was watching a video on YouTube in the fullscreen view, and when it was over, small circles appeared on the screen. These, I saw immediately, were the equivalent of the suggested videos that pop up at the end of a video in the normal view. Each one had a small picture inside it, showing a frozen moment from the motion picture it represented.
Looking closer, there was a larger circle, and smaller circles seemed to have emitted from it. I hovered the mouse over one of the smaller circles, and got two things simultaneously. One was an explanatory caption with an arrow, similar to the tags Chester Gould used to put in Dick Tracy to identify Tracy's wrist radio or possibly significant clues. The other thing was that more circles silently popped out from behind the one I was on, which now became the largest circle on the screen (fullscreen, as you'll recall). Repeating the exercise brings more and more, which rearrange themselves on the screen as your interest goes from one sort of video to another.
This seems like a pretty neat way to suggest more stuff to watch, just in case your day is so long you can keep watching more and more little movies.
Right now, though, I've committed my next half hour to listening to a 1967 radio documentary by Glenn Gould, "The Search for Pet Clark." I've had it on while typing, but I've been unable to pay enough attention to it, and I'm going to start it over as soon as I post this. Five, four, three...
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Apologies to everybody who already knew this and, perhaps, tried repeatedly to tell me about it, but I was watching a video on YouTube in the fullscreen view, and when it was over, small circles appeared on the screen. These, I saw immediately, were the equivalent of the suggested videos that pop up at the end of a video in the normal view. Each one had a small picture inside it, showing a frozen moment from the motion picture it represented.
Looking closer, there was a larger circle, and smaller circles seemed to have emitted from it. I hovered the mouse over one of the smaller circles, and got two things simultaneously. One was an explanatory caption with an arrow, similar to the tags Chester Gould used to put in Dick Tracy to identify Tracy's wrist radio or possibly significant clues. The other thing was that more circles silently popped out from behind the one I was on, which now became the largest circle on the screen (fullscreen, as you'll recall). Repeating the exercise brings more and more, which rearrange themselves on the screen as your interest goes from one sort of video to another.
This seems like a pretty neat way to suggest more stuff to watch, just in case your day is so long you can keep watching more and more little movies.
Right now, though, I've committed my next half hour to listening to a 1967 radio documentary by Glenn Gould, "The Search for Pet Clark." I've had it on while typing, but I've been unable to pay enough attention to it, and I'm going to start it over as soon as I post this. Five, four, three...
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