In the etoy.CONTEXT, blimping is defined as the process of creating a sarcophagus LED panel compatible movie file from a "normal" computer movie file.
The process from collection of visual data -> formatting -> storage -> conversion -> display.
convert movie to bbm blinkenlights format
converted sample jpegs as described on http://www.gfd.geophys.ethz.ch/~pjt/makingMovies.html:
$ mencoder "mf://jpegsamples/*.jpg" -o foo.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg
(note the awkward definition of the input file)