WOW That's awesome!
I highly appreciate the vivid art and message behind this creative construction. We need more crazy people :)
What time is it?
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Re: What time is it?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was int…
I think I understand what Formanek was aiming for with this. Unlike pre-compiled footage that can just be made 24 hours long, this was done in real-time with the workers forced to match the demands of the clock without the opportunity to pause during their shifts. Because of its real-time nature when you view the video synced to your local time you can't help but become somewhat invested in the success of the workers…
And in your summary and description, there are a great many almost borderline poetic parallels to a lot of situations and things in our life; there is a tension, almost an arc... great effort but it is all in futility, in vain because there are more modern, better solutions. Old technology vs. new ones? Past vs present? Or the great effort it takes people in poor countries to do something that is totally effortless for most of us? And those are just some silly ideas but still fun to think about it, at least for me.
Re: What time is it?
#43Well it appears that it's time for flash to load forever and then make my fan go crazy.
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#44they stole this video from (as well as code for playing it) http://esquire.ru/clock
It's using the same video bandwidth behind the scenes (which is why both are lagging). I'm not sure if that means it's a repost by the author on separate sites, or whether someone is leeching bandwidth for traffic here.
Re: What time is it?
#45Flash version 9,0 or greater is required
You have no flash plugin installed
Download latest version from here
I do not have a flash player on my machine for more than 6 months. This is the first website I encountered that I cannot use at all.
Re: What time is it?
#46This is an art project called 'Standard Time' by Mark Formanek. In late 2007 he filmed a team of 70 workers constructing this clock through 1611 iterations (every minute) for a 24-hour period in Berlin's Sculpture Park. So when originally filmed it was done in real-time. The flash video here is based on a screensaver that Formanek has made available which synchronises that video to your system clock, making it appear…
Call me stupid, but... Why 1611?
Re: What time is it?
#47This is an art project called 'Standard Time' by Mark Formanek. In late 2007 he filmed a team of 70 workers constructing this clock through 1611 iterations (every minute) for a 24-hour period in Berlin's Sculpture Park. So when originally filmed it was done in real-time. The flash video here is based on a screensaver that Formanek has made available which synchronises that video to your system clock, making it appear…
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting. Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was int…
But is it art? It's all in the eye of the beholder.
I feel the same in reverse. I'm very often left completely cold by art that is about well executed craftsmanship, such as painting, photography or sculpture but lean towards pieces like this which, to my mind, are about prompting the viewer to ask questions.
That's the kicker with 'art' it's about what the person experiencing it takes from it, and those reactions are as varied as people are. Anything is art if at least one person other than the creator reacts to it.
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#48Pretty sweet how it freezes every two seconds, showing an hourglass. How do they do that?
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#49Well it appears that it's time for flash to load forever and then make my fan go crazy.
Same here. Is this a WebGL thing or something? Three people have sent this to me today so far, and the site simply doesn't seem to work at all.
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#50Is it insanely laggy because it's being Slashdotted/Reddited/Hackernewsed, or is it just the godawful Tasmanian internet again?
I suspect the former - it's laggy here too, and the network here is normally pretty fast.
If that's the case, it's been true since 1am this morning. I wonder if it's on the site's side. I have a feeling it is.