Hand Written Clock
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Here's yer digital:
http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html
But he's not doing this for efficiency. It's supposed to art, and maybe he felt it wouldn't be complete without each hand position actually being drawn individually. That said, I have no idea if he took a shortcut like you suggested. Just saying, artists think quite differently from engineers sometimes.
mirrorshades radio -- darkwave, industrial, futurepop, ebm.
...I would have just made a 12 hour loop and played it twice.
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