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Photo／Words：Eliot C.
百無聊賴，
神出鬼沒的蚊子成了狩獵物。
緊迫的盯伺謀殺，蚊子魂歸西天於我手臂上。
腫隆起的疙瘩丘陵，像是蚊子葬身的墓塚。
偶一抬首，瞥見圓鐘上的時針，
忽跳一格，頓止。
有種放大鏡效果，
時間真是匆匆得鬼鬼祟祟。
Living room clock using the Droste mathmap code in Gimp.
Thank you all who have shown interest in this image. So far it has been used on an Alzheimers Support web site, a personal scrapbook page and now will be used for a software logo. I will post a link to the software site once I have it.
This is an old New Haven clock. Not sure when it was made. The case has fell apart.
The brass mechanism needs cleaned, but it still works. I wanted to restore but it may be beyond my skills.
A bit of a cliche to take a shot of the Astronomical Clock in Prague but I couldn't help myself.
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. The first recorded mention of the clock was on 9 October 1410. Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade was decorated with gothic sculptures.
Formerly, it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Růže (also called Hanuš); this is now known to be a historical mistake. A legend, recounted by Alois Jirásek, has it that the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors so that he could not repeat his work; in turn, he broke down the clock, and no one was able to repair it for the next hundred years.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský (ca1500–1572), master clockmaker of Klokotská Hora, who also wrote a report of the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of this clock. This mistake, corrected by Zdeněk Horský, was due to an incorrect interpretation of records from the period. The mistaken assumption of Hanuš authorship is probably connected with his reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in years 1470-1473. The clock stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times.
In 1629 or 1659 wooden statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1787-1791. During the next major repair in years 1865-1866 the golden figure of a crowing rooster was added.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans set fire from several armoured 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. After significant effort, the machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948.
The Orloj was last renovated in autumn 2005, when the statues and the lower ring were restored by Josef Manes. Wooden statues were covered with a net to keep pigeons away.
Flickr Friday theme is 'Made in Japan,'
Design by Pete DeFrancisco, built by myself. Kanji characters are for (earth, water, wind, and fire).
Jens Olson's Astonomical Clock.
This clock is amazing. It shows local time in Copenhagen, solar time, the time at any location on earth, the time of sunrise and sunset both according to local time and actual solar time, lengths of day and night. The Gregorian calendar shows the year (6), the day of the week, date and month (7), local mean time - Central European time, the daily time 15° east of Greenwich in hours, minutes and seconds. A perpetual calendar consists of 5 dials, indicating: The Sunday letter (3), the epact (4), the sun circle (5), the indiction (6) and the moon circle (7). Furthermore, there is a calendar showing the 12 months of the year, the days and dates of the week, every moon phase as well as the calculated Easter Sunday - all other holidays according to Easter Sunday. The perpetual calendar are automatically set in motion every New Years Eve at midnight, to calculate the calendar for the following year. It runs for the next 2500 years.
The star map over Denmark and the slow precession of the motion of the earth's axis over 25.753 years.
The geocentrical orbit with the Earth as its centre. Here you can obtain knowledge of the sun's and moon's eclipses, the distance between the Earth and the Moon - the apse line and the knot line.
The solar system with the planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune around the Sun.
The year (4) and number of days (5) according to the Julian time period which is 7.980 years.
It doesn't have a USB port.
Clock-O'-Clay
In the cowslip pips I lie,
Hidden from the buzzing fly,
While green grass beneath me lies,
Pearled with dew like fishes' eyes,
Here I lie, a clock-o'-clay,
Waiting for the time o' day.
While the forest quakes surprise,
And the wild wind sobs and sighs,
My home rocks as like to fall,
On its pillar green and tall;
When the pattering rain drives by
Clock-o'-clay keeps warm and dry.
Day by day and night by night,
All the week I hide from sight;
In the cowslip pips I lie,
In the rain still warm and dry;
Day and night, and night and day,
Red, black-spotted clock-o'-clay.
My home shakes in wind and showers,
Pale green pillar topped with flowers,
Bending at the wild wind's breath,
Till I touch the grass beneath;
Here I live, lone clock-o'-clay,
Watching for the time of day.
John Clare (1793-1864)
Press the key "L" to see full screen size - press the same key again to return to the original size.
3d Fractal (Mandelbulb 3d Mac) with fractal flames as the ignitor bits on the left.
Concrete floor texture added post render
Our cut-out cuckoo clocks are set to Second Life time, cuckoo/chime on the hour, when clicked, and have a moving pendulum!
10 common painted varieties, and 2 rare wood varieties.
I met these young ladies while they were on their coffee break and asked them to pose. Instantly there were about 8 or ten other people gathered around to take pictures as well. In the background is Gastowns' famous steam clock.
Los Angeles International Airport, California, USA
© Xuan-Cung Le
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Pittsburgh, PA
Installed 1913
My photo was extremely washed out. I used Photoshop to up the contrast and clarity, and adjusted colors. The background was totally white, so I used a sky from one of my other photos to fill it in. I've had several people tell me this is the best photo they've seen of this Pittsburgh landmark. I always laugh, thinking, if they only knew what a horrible image it was SOOC.
About the clock:
For more than a century, "Meet me under Kaufmann's Clock" was said by one and all when meeting someone in downtown Pittsburgh. This clock has been added to the list of official local landmarks. This bronze ornamental clock features telamones on both sides.
Kaufmann's was a large department store in the city then, and later built additional stores in the suburbs. This store is now owned by Macy's.
(Addendum: in 2015 Macy's closed the store and the building will become a hotel and apartments.The new building will reopen early 2018: www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/Nest/N... The clock will remain.)
The Kaufmann family is also famous for hiring Frank Lloyd Wright to design their vacation home in the mountains southeast of the city ---the home which became known as "Fallingwater."
From an April 21, 2013 article on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website, marking the 100 year anniversary of the clock:
"The current clock is... the second one at Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street. The original, four-faced clock was installed in 1884 and stood on a post at that intersection...
"The present 1913 clock was designed by Coldwell Clock Co. of New York City and weighs about 2,500 pounds [1134 kg]. It was incorporated into the building's facade by the Pittsburgh architectural firm of Janssen & Abbott.
"In 1987, when the clock was dismantled for cleaning and restoration, more than 100 pieces were removed in a two-part process that took three days. The clock's works were tagged, numbered and photographed to ensure accuracy. Three teams of 15 specialists worked for 10 weeks on the restoration.
"The clock's surface was so heavily oxidized and coated with 74 years worth of soot, grime and pigeon droppings that chemical cleaners and solvents proved useless.
"Using bridge cleaning equipment, workers blasted 1,000 pounds of ground corncobs at the clock to clean it."
20/52
This concept has probably been done a load of times before, but thought it would be a kind of fun idea do something with.
Also, I'm going travelling around Canada next week for a month, and I'm hoping to get some awesome concepts shot over there which I'm so excited for and can't wait to show you!
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