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Kluang Clock Tower @ Johor
The name Kluang comes from the Malay word keluang, which means a type of flying fox or rather a type of fruit bat. Alas, the critters have almost completely disappeared, and some suspect that the town was named after two mountains that resemble the head and wing respectively of a bat from a distance.
This is a wall clock which was my grandmother's - it's shaped like a giant pocket watch. I was just messing about with this, and the photos came out a bit unspectacular, with a massive blue tinge and not capturing the antiquey feel of the clock. So Photoshop to the rescue - I played around with the levels a lot, plus contrast, a little yellow Photo Filter and some elements of the pseudolomo technique posted in the Techniques group at
www.flickr.com/groups/topic/12082/
As promised, this is an updated version, but I'm still not sure I'm through with it, so comments would be great.
Visiones Personales 07
El tiempo se acababa
Quién diablos sabe qué era lo que esperábamos:
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Personal Visions 07
Time was running out
Who the hell knows what was it that we were waiting for:
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Since January 1st 2010, I have been taking and uploading one square picture each day to:
square365.blogspot.com
Clock radios fascinate me. For a technology item, people hold on to them much longer than anything else I can think of. I mean, when is the last time you've heard of someone say, "Man, I really should upgrade my clock radio?"
This is a Sharp Atomic Weather Station Alarm Clock that we just bought for my hubby. It is battery operated and gives the inside and outside temperatures. 7/18/12
Assignment:
Illustrate the idea of time in a photograph today. Be as literal or abstract as you want to be with your interpretation., post it then Tag it with #TP253
The painted clock on the façade of Holy Spirit Church in Tallinn, Estonia.
Relógio pintado na fachada da Igreja do EspÃrito Santo em Talim, Estonia.
Medieval Marketplace
Welcome to the third project of my little medieval town - Medieval Marketplace!
In my marketplace you can see a tall tower with an astronomical clock on one side (a copy of the Old Town Hall Tower) and ordinary clocks on the other.
On the same square, life is in full swing! Here you will see a butcher chopping a piece of meat for the next customer - an old astronomer in a luxurious hat, and a fish merchant. A prosperous merchant with all kinds of trinkets, living in a house near the tower and unloading all sorts of supplies from the cart. A baker just baked another pretzel in his bakery. Well and of course the guards keeping order. :)
The project also includes 10 minifigures:
a jester fireman,
two guards,
a merchant of some supplies,
a fish merchant,
a baker,
a butcher,
two peasants,
a horse
The second floor of the houses and the roofs are easily removed. The whole model is fully playable. The tower is empty inside.
I was inspired to create this project by my trip to Prague last summer. Initially, I planned to create a project only for the Astronomical Clock (Old Town Hall Tower), but having built the tower, I decided to slightly change it and add a market square to it - in the end it’s a fantasy! :)
Also, when building this project, I was inspired by such clock towers as The Zytglogge and Ledbury Clock Tower, and a set of lego castle 10193 medieval marketplace.
I hope you enjoyed
DominikQN
It works! It WORKS!
Look at all those volts!
The backdrop is a rare glimpse into the magical process of development à la Wibatt. I copied and tweaked the power supply section from Dieter the Nixie Man's IN-1 clock schematic, printed it out, then did a bit of fiddling around to get a general idea of whether all the parts would fit on the little board (half of a Radio Shack 276-148, snapped along the handy perforation). They did, so I did a further bit of fiddling to find a reasonable layout so that the parts that needed to connect to one another were near each other, and so on. Not too much, because this project is all about not spending all my time planning.
Then, I just did a bunch of soldering, using the schematic as a guide, until I figured it was done. Then I went through all the connections in the schematic, making sure they all existed - I'd overlooked a couple - and crossing them off. Then, I made sure none of the bits that weren't supposed to touch were shorted together, and THEN it was time to test it. The result? Volts! Lots and lots of volts yay!
In my opinion these are vastly superior to the good old dandelion clock, being much more like a many-faceted shape than a sphere.
This hour-striking clock with four dials was installed in 1904 in the New Market in Kirkgate Leeds by Wm Potts and Sons Leeds. The clock was designed by John and Joseph Leeming of London and cost £150. Gerald Balfour MP opened the market and the clock was set going by Alderman Knowles on 1 July 1904.
In Kirkgate Market it had an electric alarm which rang at 5.55, to warn the stall holders that closing time was imminent, and again at 6pm for close of business. The clock was serviced by an engineer who went up inside the tower, pushing up the trapdoor, which he then stood on to work on the clock. Sadly on one occasion, the engineer suffered a fatal electric shock and collapsed on the trap door which made recovery of his body very difficult.
In 1912 it was necessary to resite the market stalls to provide an entrance from Vicar Lane. The clock was removed and placed close to the entrance to Roundhay Park near the entry lodge. This building was demolished in 1937, leaving the clock alone.
In 1941 the movement was replaced by a synchronous drive and the original movement later installed in Leck Parish Church, near Kirkby Lonsdale in Lancashire. The Oakwood clock was restored in 1977.
The most impressive picture of the clock in its original site in Leeds Market is probably this engraving from "The Building News" in 1901:
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Leodis carries a number of shots of the clock in the market and at Oakwood, including these:
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Oakwood on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakwood,_Leeds
The upper circular component (an astrolbe or simple planetarium) was installed in 1410 and has run more-or-less continuously since then. There are several moving parts, including the outer zodiacal ring and symbols representing the sun and moon whose positions vary with the celestial locations of these bodies. Rumor has it that the craftsman who made this mechanism was blinded so that he could not replicate this invention in any other city. At the top, under the arched portico, a golden rooster crows three times at the conclusion of each hourly episode. On the hour, the two blue doors open to reveal the passage of two sets of 6 carved apostles, added in the 17th century. Four animated statues flank the astronomical clock; the two on the left represent Vanity and Greed, while the two on the right embody Death and Lust. (Prague: Old Town Hall: 19-21 May, 2017)
Another experiment with my small lens while waiting for my Thanksgiving dinner to be served, Everyone is traveling and busy...guess we will eat alone.....kinda nice for a change. This is the top of one of my wife's favorite clocks....a Vienna Regulator. Clocks were my hobby before getting back in cameras.