Human Clock

by cookingoils • 6 years ago

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andyjpb• 6 years ago

The author seems to be soliciting artwork submissions for a "Pobox clock" as well so perhaps we could use this opportunity to help out!

https://humanclock.com/poboxclock.php

yboris• 6 years ago

Reminds me of the brilliant The Clock (2010 film)

a 24-hour video supercut (montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces.

It's played synchronized with the actual time of day. I got to see it in a museum in London. It was awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

kawera• 6 years ago

Fantastic video! I got to see it in São Paulo and went there three times in different hours of the day... mesmerising.

alkank• 6 years ago

And me of Pharrell Williams' Happy - 24 hours version: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsH19NHPTD44m-5CCyx5j...

remram• 6 years ago

Reminds me of the pointerpointer.com

raindropm2• 6 years ago

This is gold.

podiki• 6 years ago

Hahaha that's great! I wonder if it is just a static catalog of images, or uses all that fancy machine vision to find new images...

crystite• 6 years ago

The Atari Web Server he's using is one of my favorite pages on the internet. https://humanclock.com/atariserver.php

For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.

js2• 6 years ago

Oh, literally around! As in circumnavigate.

(I once circumnavigated a country on foot but it was merely the Vatican.)

Years ago there was a beautiful book published called From Alice to Ocean about a woman who walked across the Western deserts of Australia:

https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Ocean-Alone-Across-Outback/dp/0...

It was notable at the time also because it was one of the early uses of CD-ROM to add a multimedia component.

http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/s94/students/nataliez/nata...

graderjs• 6 years ago

This is hilarious, by the same person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-peZ7IeD2w&feature=youtu.be

0x008• 6 years ago

That‘s great!

anotherevan• 6 years ago

I want an API to this so I can use it for desktop background images.

bitwize• 6 years ago

Cool, a web toy like they used to make 'em, back when the web was fun and the possibilities seemed endless.

khazhoux• 6 years ago

Yup, this immediately screamed "old web" to me.

Now I just refresh reddit and HN :-\

jcun41282• 6 years ago

Wow it took me a bit to figure out what was happening. How neat

waihtis• 6 years ago

About one minute or less?

jcun41282• 6 years ago

Haha yeah, it was just so random like I saw a photo of a table with a drawing of 9:25 or whatever... didn't get it at first, came back new photo with a number on it like oh...

raindropm2• 6 years ago

I love it. Back then when internet used to be weird and fun, and not all about profit or fame...

dmortin• 6 years ago

Nice, but not perfect, at 6:05am I was shown an image of 16:05, so it was off by 10 hours.

jedimastert• 6 years ago

I'm reminded of a video installation somewhere of a clock where ever minute a guy repaints the minute line, but I don't remember where or what it was...does this ring a bell with anyone?

codyogden• 6 years ago

It’s called Real Time by Maarten Baas.

https://youtu.be/e_3KY2gWDwg

http://maartenbaas.com/real-time/schiphol-clock/

kenny11• 6 years ago

Is this what you're thinking of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88dflh7Dko4

There is also now a version at Amsterdam Schipol airport.

matsemann• 6 years ago

Norway likes slow TV, and did this for a whole day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6urNqR7x1kE I checked in for all the big transitions where multiple panels had to be changed at the same time.

erainey2• 6 years ago

Another fun project by the same person. https://deee-lights.com/

undreren• 6 years ago

What is that site supposed to do? The embedded video says it's private.

erainey2• 6 years ago

The video was a livestream of the house as multiple people changed colors / settings of the lights. Maybe HN broke the Atari server though.

Here’s what it looked like: https://twitter.com/humanclock/status/1337926809166331905

superasn• 6 years ago

Also by the author https://humancalendar.com/ (very interesting)

sunnyam• 6 years ago

This reminds me of Pharrell Williams' 24 Hours of Happy [1] which was a website that you could visit and it would show a music video timed to that minute. On the hour, ever hour, there would be a special music video with the Pharrell instead.

The song was a real earworm and I'm sure people got sick of it but I really loved that website. Even though the song became a bit too much at times, it was a brilliant thing to watch.

[1]: The website is down now but the videos are all here on his Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKPi39tTpkdpjBVQZo5oF...

ImpressiveWebs2• 6 years ago

I happen to click at exactly 4:50 and it was a photo of the cover of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 450. Well played.

dwighttk2• 6 years ago

Is that a prequel to Fahrenheit 451? What burns at 450°?

ImpressiveWebs2• 6 years ago

Oh haha... I misread it. It was 4:51. I've never actually read the book, so I just had a brain fart on the title.

Cockbrand• 6 years ago

Fantastic and quite fun! This has been around for quite a while. I remember being obsessed with contributing to the Human Clock back in the day. I might go and search for my contributions over the holidays.

arondeparon• 6 years ago

We need this, but with livestreamed cameras found on Shodan.

dhammack• 6 years ago

Thanks for posting. In the early 2000's me, my brothers, and my dad spent several months taking pictures and submitting each sequential minute between 8-9. Looking back probably 20 years later now it is quite amusing to still see the pictures there! It has been a long time since I heard about the human clock.

devenblake• 6 years ago

Woah. I open it up at 08:44 and the picture is from less than fifty miles away from me. Small world. (I live in Maine.)

mariodiana• 6 years ago

This is the brother of a former housemate of mine, from almost 20 years ago. I emailed him back then to tell him I saw the site and thought it was cool. He told me I should check out his other site: humancock.com.

When I clicked that, the page loaded and read something like, "Shame on you!"

Wise guy, that guy ;-)

schwartzworld• 6 years ago

Interestingly the town of Fucking just voted to legally change its name.

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