Dec 9 2009Neat, But I'll Pass (The Time!): A Crazy Clock
That isn't your grandfather's grandfather clock. But that may be him trapped inside! (it's not -- please don't call and wake up your grandma). You see, that's really a television screen. Tricky!
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.
Admittedly, it is a neat idea, I just can't believe somebody dedicated 24 hours of their life to recording themselves writing the time. That's ridiculous. I mean, I've got Warcraft characters to level up.
Thanks to Conspiracy, who's convinced daylight savings time was created by the government to throw off our internal clocks and keep us in check. And he's right.
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Reader Comments
1. bourt - December 9, 2009 4:21 PM
first
2. noob - December 9, 2009 4:22 PM
2nd i win
3. Closet Nerd - December 9, 2009 4:27 PM
Actually, he probably only wasted 12 hours of his time, because with clocks like these, you can't tell the difference between AM & PM..... just sayin
4. Eric - December 9, 2009 4:33 PM
What Closet Nerd said. Analog clocks don't differentiate between AM and PM. Doesn't make sense that he'd spend 24 hours. I'm guessing that the source that you cite (but don't attribute, tsk tsk) simply assumed it took him 24 hours.
5. GoSS Jerk (now hiding a Dino in his back yard for GW's pleasure) - December 9, 2009 4:35 PM
@ 4... Eric, just because you didn't understand CN doesn't mean the rest of us have to read your babling... MLIG
6. Closet Nerd - December 9, 2009 4:36 PM
Daylights saving didn't used to be as long as it is now.... the Bush Administration extended Daylights Savings Time because people spend more money when it isn't dark, so if it gets darker later, people will spend more money..... just sayin
7. Closet Nerd - December 9, 2009 4:37 PM
@5 http://de.acidcow.com/pics/20091130/gif_04.gif
Eric did understand what I was saying, apparenty you didn't.... just sayin
8. LSDiesel - December 9, 2009 4:48 PM
A real artist would've actually stood in there for the rest of his life.
Lame.
9. Dr Colossus - December 9, 2009 5:08 PM
why is the 4 "IIII" and not "IV"
10. LSDiesel - December 9, 2009 5:19 PM
@9, because he's an 'artist' supposedly
11. murf - December 9, 2009 5:24 PM
why are white ppl always red and pudgy
12. Jiakasuma - December 9, 2009 5:35 PM
I want one!
13. Otto - December 9, 2009 5:45 PM
I can see him after standing there for 12 hours... proudly showing his accomplishment to a friend... who promptly points out that he had the wrong roman numeral of IIII instead of IV...
14. boinsie - December 9, 2009 5:47 PM
@Dr Collossus - Traditionally IIII is used on clock dials instead of IV. See Wikipedia~~> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Calendars_and_clocks
15. madalfred - December 9, 2009 7:43 PM
if thats the case why isn't 9 represented as VIIII
16. conspiracy - December 9, 2009 9:16 PM
HOW DID YOU KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING GW!?! OH NO THERE'S A HOLE IN MY HAT!!! AHHH!
17. roman johnny - December 9, 2009 9:35 PM
When you start to notice the IIII instead of IV, you'll be suprised at how many clocks did it. (do clocks do it? ((I hope so)))
18. rad to the power of me - December 10, 2009 12:30 AM
@most of you: Roman numeral IIII is Bullspit and i don't like it!
@5 Google Fail, you might see yourself.......burn!
Clock is bad ass but i wouldn't waste a flatscreen on it...unless i was (@11) murf and was boring enough to waste other peoples time with unrelated racist comments
19. Kyster - December 10, 2009 2:27 AM
This is the coolest clock ever!
But does it come in bacon?
20. arg - December 10, 2009 5:09 AM
Louis XIV, king of France, who preferred IIII over IV, ordered his clockmakers to produce clocks with IIII and not IV, and thus it has remained.
the real question is why didn't he rename himself Louis XIIII
21. Neil - December 10, 2009 6:55 AM
Only some deluded hippy student "artist" could think this was anything other than stupid and pointless.
22. Jaded Icon - December 10, 2009 7:04 AM
@ 22
You must work at the stockyard because I smell a lot of BS.....
23. karen - December 10, 2009 8:04 AM
for as much time as he spent on that project, you'd think he would have sprung for a nicer box.
24. Aaron - December 10, 2009 9:36 AM
Too much time on his hands.... HAHAHAHAHAHAH... I hate my life...
25. ross - December 10, 2009 1:00 PM
Awesome, I just saw this a few days ago at Design Miami.
26. Yazılım TV, Php, MySQL, db.. - December 14, 2009 3:47 PM
clock good..