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"The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium."
-Daniel Hillis
The above photo is stock photography from the following link:
www.longnow.org/?gclid=CNXs1onmnI8CFQdGYAodhCctaA
The image here is used as inspiration for the group Time and the Forever Now, a group exploring the concept of time and its expression through photography.
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.
Hand Made by Kenneth Wayne Olson of Oak Lawn Illinois
Any Additional info about this man and his woodwork is greatly appreciated
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.
Paris, about 1772.
The figure on the left is holding a celestial globe and represents Astronomy; the figure on the right is holding a rolled map and represents Geography. The clock stood on the mantelpiece of Louis XVI's council chamber in the Tuileries.
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.
The Old Town Hall was established as a symbol of the town self-administration under the rule of King John of Luxembourg in 1338. A corner tower house in the Old Town Square became the seat of the town council. On the occasion of its alteration for the purposes of the town council house, a monumental prismatic quadrilateral tower was built on the place of an older tower, in the second half of the 14th century. The tower stands 69.5 metres high and also fulfilled the function of the town watch-tower.
In 1410, the astronomical clock was mounted on the south side of the tower, but it was not completed until later. The oldest part of the clock is the central astronomical-astrological part, based on the geocentric conception of the motions of the planets and it represents the common form of telling the time from that period.
Now take the clock away for repair, but I thing taking the clock tower is a bit of killer. Or was it that bad?
The Wells Cathedral clock is an astronomical clock in the north transept of Wells Cathedral, England. The clock is one of the group of famous 14th to 16th century astronomical clocks to be found in the West of England.
Built around 1392 and has been in almost continuous use ever since. It is the second-oldest surviving clock in England (the oldest is at Salisbury Cathedral).
In the 1600s the original horizontal swinging beam mechanism called a foliot balance was replaced by a pendulum and anchor escapement to improve timekeeping. The clock also drove a display of automata figures which can still be seen at Wells every 15 minutes.