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Re: What time is it?

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Post by rcthompson »

scott_s wrote: post #55
ntkachov wrote: post #13

Earlier 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 really don't care if we call it art or not. I just think it's neat, it makes me go, "Oh! Cool!" and puts a smile on my face. I'm glad someone is doing it. Much like Improve Everywhere: http://improveverywhere.com/

Haha, "Improve Everywhere". I don't disagree. :)

Re: What time is it?

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Post by alex_c »

moe wrote: post #37
tudorw wrote: post #15

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I will never understand how people that don't understand something don't understand how other people have the capacity to understand things not understood by them!

You can by definition not understand why they don't understand. If you understood why they don't understand then you'd likely not understand yourself. Likewise, if they understood why they don't understand then they'd probably have understood in first place.

That argument works for the purely logical definition of "understand", but not so much for the "appreciate" or "accept" meanings of the word.

Re: What time is it?

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Post by scoot »

gk1 wrote: post #51
excuse-me wrote: post #33

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Every saturday millions of people invest $100s each and colleges invest $100millions in finding out which team of people can carry a leather oval from one end of a field to another. This is at least novel and at the end of it you have a clock.

Everything can be simplified to the point of absurdity.

Or to the point that its absurdity becomes apparent.

Re: What time is it?

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Post by jessriedel »

excuse-me wrote: post #33
_djo_ wrote: post #24

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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…

Every saturday millions of people invest $100s each and colleges invest $100millions in finding out which team of people can carry a leather oval from one end of a field to another. This is at least novel and at the end of it you have a clock.

Yes, and for more than a thousand years people have been rearranging the positions of tiny sculptures of feudal stereotypes on an 8x8 grid. What a waste of time.

What gk1 said.

Re: What time is it?

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Post by matthew-wegner »

ntkachov wrote: post #13
_djo_ wrote: post #9

This 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…

One of the points of this kind of art is the discussion that you just participated in actively yourself.

Re: What time is it?

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Post by lebski88 »

blahedo wrote: post #52

Argh! I tuned in at 10:52 and wanted to stick around to see the :00 transition, and the player crapped out just at :59, and when I reloaded the 00 had already been switched, and they were just pulling off the pieces to switch 10 to 11. The next such transition is an hour away! ...wait, how did I get so invested in this?

You could always change your system time.

Re: What time is it?

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Post by gaving »

motiejus wrote: post #45

Flash 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 .

Ditto. Flash is dead.
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