Digital Photo Frames (DPF) are designed so that you can display your photos from
one place. Rather than having lots of picture frames on your walls, you can simply
load your photos into the frame and let people see them from one convenient place.
There are all sorts of settings, including whether you want the photos displayed
in order, or randomly, and how long each photo should be displayed for, before the
image changes. My DPF is a 15” display, which is on the large side, and I have mounted
it on my living room wall.
I decided that this was an opportunity to do more than just show images. You can
show videos as well, and play music. So, I decided to put together presentations
that included music and images. You can have music that complements the images or
ones that are deliberately designed to contrast. For example, I have some very good
Zen art images. At first, I matched some Himalayan hill music to the images. You
know the sort of thing; flutes and gentle rhythms. Then I became bolder and replaced
that music with trance music which is 160 beats a minute and very active, and alive.
The contrast worked very well.
Another thing I realised was that I have lots of music that I hardly ever listen
to. So, I made a rule. I would only use that music to use in the project, and one
of the effects would be to reintroduce the rarely listened to tracks. Taken together,
these presentations are also autobiographical.
I was having difficulty preventing the DPF from mixing folders together on my USB
stick, and playing all sorts of random stuff. So, in the first instance I bought
ten USB sticks and put one presentation on each. That was not enough and so I bought
another ten USB sticks. They are quite cheap because I can buy the smallest capacity
USB sticks that no one else wants, and get them for a discount price. The average
size of my audio/image presentations is less than 100MB, and about 400MB for the
videos.
These are not in any particular order. Follow the links below for more details of
each presentation.