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Downtown Vancouver, Canada, July 2010
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 as a tourist attraction for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Although the clock is now owned by the City of Vancouver, funding for the project was provided by contributions from local merchants, property owners, and private donors. Incorporating a steam engine and electric motors, the clock displays the time on four faces and announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminster Quarters.
From Wikipedia
Hand Made by Kenneth Wayne Olson of Oak Lawn Illinois
Any Additional info about this man and his woodwork is greatly appreciated
Confusion that never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks, gonna
Come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know, singing
魔镜，魔镜告诉我，现在几点了？ 10点10分了。这面镜子也许不能告诉你谁是最美的女人，但是它能告诉你时间。你可以把它看作是时钟，也可以视它为镜子。别照镜子了，时间到了，别让TA等急了。
特色：
1. 纯镜面设计，力求最简。
2. 可以在镜面上可以自己写字、画画。
3. 超宽表针设计，有趣，可爱。
4. 太阳牌静音机芯。
材质：
1. 钟面：浮法玻璃镜面。
2. 表针：铝制喷漆。
3. 机芯托架：PVC。
4. 机芯：太阳牌静音扫描。
尺寸：
直径：28CM
重量：
净重：0.5KG 毛重：0.76KG
注意：
1. 推荐使用5号炭性电池。
2. 若长期不用，请将电池取出。
Astronomical Clock - Pragues Old Town Sqaure
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.
Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade decorated with gothic sculptures.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský, clock-master of Orloj, who also wrote a report on the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of the clock.
The Orloj stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times. In the 17th century moving statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1865-1866.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans directed incendiary fire from several armored vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. The machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948, but only after significant effort.
I made this clock in a very short amount of time. I collage the background and used rubber stamps and black ink for the numbers. I then restamped the numbers using Martha Stewarts glue pad and glue ink and followed that with black glitter. The edges of the wood are painted black too.
A clock made by my friend Brian Parkinson. It's ethernet enabled (http, ntp, osc). And it's for sale! For more info, check out this page.
See Blatherings.
Gastown neighborhood, Vancouver
www.gastown.org - trendy, hip, contemporary, touristy, upscale, artsy neighborhood.
From Wikipedia:
Gastown was Vancouver's first downtown core and is named after "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon. The town soon prospered as the site of Hastings Mill sawmill, seaport, and quickly became a general centre of trade and commerce on Burrard Inlet as well as a rough-and-rowdy resort for off-work loggers and fishermen as well as the crews and captains of the many sailing ships which came to Gastown or Moodyville, on the north side of the inlet (which was a dry town) to load logs and timber.
From Wikipedia:
Gastown's most famous landmark is the steam-powered clock on the corner of Cambie and Water Street. Built to cover a steam grate, part of Vancouver's distributed steam-heating system, the clock was built as a way to harness the steam and to prevent street people from sleeping on the spot in cold weather.
The disabled clock that towers above the Clearihue building on the University of Victoria campus. A polarizing filter was used.
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still operating.
Common name: Bush Clock Vine, King's Mantle
Botanical name: Thunbergia erecta (syn. Meyenia erecta)
- [ (thun-BER-jee-uh) named after Carl Peter Thunberg, 19th century Swedish botanist; (ee-RECK-tuh) meaning erect, upright ]
Family: Acanthaceae (acanthus or ruellia family)
- [ (ah-kanth-AY-see-ay) from the Greek Ãikantha, meaning thorn, spine, or spike ]
Origin: Tropical Africa
An upright shrub with dark green leaves and an abundant display of trumpet shaped purple flowers with yellow throats. It can be grown as a bush with weeping branches or it can be trained like a vine. It is not always easy to come by in the nursery. The flowers are absolutely wonderful and it seems to bloom from early spring until late summer or fall.
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Note: Identification attempted; may not be accurate.
Reloj de pared diseñado por mi con un poco de paciencia en Photoshop, una cartulina y la mecánica de un reloj promocional.
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Wall clock I designed with a little patience with photoshop, cardboard and the clock mechanics from a promotional clock.