{"id":86071,"date":"2009-12-16T23:47:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/standard_time_hand_built_clock.html"},"modified":"2009-12-16T23:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:47:37","slug":"standard-time-huge-hand-built-and-updated-by-hand-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/86071","title":{"rendered":"Standard Time: Huge Hand-Built (and Updated-by-Hand…) Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStandard Time<\/a> [standard-time.com] involves about 70 workers who built a large (4x12m), wooden “digital” time display. Which they then updated in “real time”. All of this resulted in a unique urban screen that involved about 1,611 tedious changes within 24 hour period. <\/p>\n

“The spectator looking at Standard Time does not only see the time, but also the people constructing it. People who, with a stoic sense of duty, are wasting time on an apparently useless activity that fulfills only one function: to display time.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

The concept reminds me of a combination of Digital Ceiling Clock<\/a> with the real-time updates from the RE:ID<\/a> project. Via Thijsma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch a documentary video below<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Standard Time [standard-time.com] involves about 70 workers who built a large (4x12m), wooden “digital” time display. Which they then updated in “real time”. All of this resulted in a unique urban screen that involved about 1,611 tedious changes within 24 hour period. “The spectator looking at Standard Time does not only see the time, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}