Very Slow Movie Player is a cool experiment: an e-ink picture frame that plays a movie not at 24 frames per second, but at 24 frames per hour. This inverts the normal movie-watching experience. The rhythm is flipped, and it presents interesting thoughts on the speed of technology and the attention it demands. The author discusses some interesting implications of the use of slowly-changing e-ink displays in public spaces: a calmer alternative to LED screens (as in bus stops), or as an ornamental way to blend our digital lives into our physical ones (buildings whose appearance change over the course of days, or in response to their environment). But beside being a provocative prototype of calm or slow technology, the Very Slow Movie Player …