Clock by Christiaan Postma, notes from the creator:
The starting point with this project was a personal study about form & time. I put together more than 150 individual clockworks and made them work together to become one clock. I show the progress of time by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks. Reading clockwise, the time being is visible through a word and readable by the completeness of the word, 12 words from “one†to “twelveâ€. The size of the clock is 1,4 by 1,4 meter.
Watch the animated sample.
Now here is a newer version of the same concept, O’Clock by Nadine Grenier.
Notes about this project from Today and Tomorrow:
Nadine Grenier, a student at ESAD Strasbourg, made this kinetic installation called “O’clockâ€. It is made with 500 clocksworks and every 12 hours you can read this sentence: “le temps passe, et chaque fois qu’il y a du temps passe, il y a quelque chose qui s’effaceâ€. This is a quote from Jules Romains, a French poet, which roughly translates in “Time passes, and every time the time passes, there is something that fadesâ€.
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What for? ))
Tis a grand idear.
I will use the basic premise and use it to make money for something.
I’ll think of the sentence first.
Then type it out in Illustrator.
I’ll trace over little hands and big hands of clocks to certain points.
Then, I’ll make sure each clock starts simultaneously.
huh?