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Get me to the church on time

Richard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:41:27 +0000

I got married last Friday 7th August, and totally unknown to me, transport had been arranged to the church in the form of a DeLorean. A good choice as obviously you can’t be late in one of those.

All I had to do was jump in, set the time circuits for 12:34:56 07.08.09 and I was off.

There’s definitely something going on, as this was the disco at the last wedding I went to:

Despite the flyer’s claim to be able to play music from any time, he was unable to play me any music from the future, although he seemed to have a quite direct link to the early 90s.

Anyway, should I end up in the past, something like this would definitely come in handy…

I must at least visit America in 1955 at some point as I have my own diner in Hill Valley California. Check out the climactic scene in Back to the Future, there’s clearly a ‘Holt’s Diner’ at the end of the street.

Now, all that remains is to go to the future, something’s got to be done about our kids…

Clock Clock

Richard — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:03:26 +0000

As those who know me will attest, I have a fascination with time as well as typography. Could this be the best thing I’ve seen all year? Maybe…

Clock Clock, by Humans Since 1982. There’s even a font. Wow, just wow.

I wish I had that much time on my hands. Found over at Boredom is your Fault

Word Clock

Richard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:02:33 +0000

I wrote a little while ago about nine nicer ways to tell the time as I had noticed a few clever ways of your screensaver being used to display the time. Well I wish I had known then about Simon Heys’s Word Clock, which shows the time typographically and gives quite a bit of control over the display of the typography.

There’s also a Rotary Word Clock which is just as lovely, if not more so. Have a closer look by clicking the images above, then get over to the site and download the screensavers for PC and Mac. You can even get an iPhone version if you’ve been brave enough to jailbreak your device.

His portfolio is rather nice too…

Nine nicer ways to tell the time

Richard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:29:19 +0000

I love a good clock screensaver for my Mac, I really do. I’m a sucker for them and so, inspired by the excellent Drop Clock which is doing the rounds at the moment, I thought I’d gather together my favourite ways of telling the on-screen time here in one post. Most of these are available as screensavers for the Mac and PC…

Drop Clock This is the new one, a lovely screensaver which shows the numbers being dropped into water all slowly. It’s from Tha Ltd. the guys behind Ffffound! and Uniqlo.com. Yugo Nakamura strikes again!

Fliqlo A long standing favourite of mine, a faithful recreation of a flip clock, so save your money at Habitat and download this screensaver. Check out the rest of the site too…

Polar Clock from Pixelbreaker, a radial representation of the date and time using ever moving coloured bands.

Pong Clock a great clock made by a never-ending game of Pong. Another one which has burned its way into my screen for many weeks. It’s minutes vs hours and strangely minutes seems to lose 60 times more frequently…

Uniqlock is Japanese bonkers from Uniqlo and great for it. Who needs clocks when you can tell the time through the medium of interpretive dance…?

Drawing the time by multimedia god Yugo Nakamura is another example of his great multimedia work. Sadly you can’t download this one, you just have to load up the webpage and watch it go. You could make a webclip for the OSX dashboard though…?

Barcode Clock no nonsense time telling made using Javascript. No scanner required. You can download widgets of this or watch it tick away on the web page

Nixie Clock a lovely retro way to look at the time, using the tube based display which came before LEDs. This is a Mac Dashboard widget, for PC users there seem to be loads of variations out there…

Wallpaper Clock not strictly one clock this, but rather a way to change your desktop wallpaper at intervals to show a series of images. I haven’t tried it yet, but I guess you can visualise the time any way you like. The site tells you how to do it and you can browse different wallpapers…

That’s it, try them for yourself and do please leave a comment if you know of any I’ve missed out. I’m sure to need to change my screensaver again soon…

A thought for the week

Richard — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:55 +0000

I’m pretty pleased this morning as I just found out I’m featured on the Johnson Banks Thought for the Week. Micheal Johnson posted recently about their open-ended Time project, where they invite viewer submissions. I thought they might be interested in my mobile phone photoblog as a visual record of time, so casually sent it in, not expecting to really hear anything back. Well, Michael replied to say thanks, and then this morning the photoblog was plastered all over their blog. Nice!

I’d better get on the phone to my web hosts and plead for some more bandwidth…

Oh, and talking of Time, the February issue of All The Rage featured a couple of my photos on the subject.