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Hand Written Clock

Posted by samzenpus on from the up-to-the-minute dept.

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."

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  1. 24 hours? by MattSausage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, I would imagine he only painstakingly did this for 12 hours, no need for 24

    1. Re:24 hours? by bar-agent · · Score: 2, Informative

      1 hour... he only needed to do it for 1 hour.

      No. You notice how he cleaned up around the minute hand? Specifically, how he cleaned the juncture between the minute hand and hour hand? If the hour hand were in a different position, he wouldn't have been able to do that and keep the illusion.

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    2. Re:24 hours? by iamhassi · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "Think it through. I don't think I need to explain how."

      Actually I think you need to think it through and an explanation on how he could do all 12 hours by just doing 1 hour is necessary.

      My question is when does the next minute begin? When he finishes cleaning everything off or when he begins wiping it off? I'd probably buy this if they offered it as a computer program and set it up on a tablet inside a box.

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  2. I like... by msauve · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this one better.

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    1. Re:I like... by Kesch · · Score: 3, Insightful

      While the Industrious Clock is probably a better "hand-drawn" timekeeper, I'd say the real draw of this is not just the clock face, but the entire mounting in a man sized box with the clock sunken. It then truly looks like you have kidnapped someone, shoved them into a box, and forced them to keep time with whiteboard markers. I'd like to see a pocket watch version with a tiny demon inside.

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  3. Re:Creepy by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not to worry. He comes out. At night. And watches you sleep. When he can see that your breathing is deep and even, he collects your tears with a thin glass needle.

  4. Re:Ummm... by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why it's in Idle.

  5. Wrong by electricbern · · Score: 5, Funny

    The clock is wrong. I wonder if it is due to daylight saving time.

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  6. Re:Ummm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't look in the idle section then. I like these posts because they are entertaining and give me something to read on slow news days.

  7. Would be more impressive... by aicrules · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...if he included a second hand.

  8. Re:Ummm... by Spazztastic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well then I wonder how Idle made front page.

    Adjust your Slashdot homepage to not include Idle, then.

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  9. The digital hand-written clock is better by csb · · Score: 2, Informative

    IMHO, the INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK [sic] is the coolest handwritten timekeeper:

    http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html ...plus it has one-second resolution.

    That's still my favorite, although some prefer Human Clock:

    http://www.humanclock.com/

    That one requires occasional thought, which makes it suboptimal for a quick time check. Yes, I am that lazy. =-)

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  10. Re:Creepy by Looce · · Score: 4, Funny

    A thin hand drawn glass needle.

  11. Re:I want an attractive digital display by goofy183 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/8e18/

  12. OKAY I GET IT ALREADY by MyFirstNameIsPaul · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This isn't as cool as the INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK and the artist could have looped two 12-hour recordings. Now how about you creativity experts come up with some original comments?

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  13. Re:Where's the repository? by SEWilco · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's an open hardware project. Most people can build one, but it takes 9 months to download the basic hardware. Programming it takes years.

  14. Re:Creepy by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2

    Drawing thin glass needles by hand is hard.

    With the right tools, though, you can reliably produce glass needles fine enough to sample the contents of a single cell.(Or, presumably, sample your tears right through your eyelid without alerting you.)