WebClock
For every minute of the clock, a fragment of text is taken from a webpage which contains the current time, but from a different day and / or year in history.
The WebClock contains text traces for 1440 minutes of the day and reflects the relation between man and time. It is a collection or subjective time experience, relatively, even though the absolute clock is represented as numbers.
Download WebClock as screensaver – Windows o nly/ one click install/ no malware, tested with 41 antivirus program. Made with InstantStorm.
Note: screensaver version is a bit different to spare your screen – it has black background and every minute those 3 rectangles are in a different place.
During the analysis of the text, I drew some interesting conclusions:
In the morning people are more interested about the weather. Even if they have different motives in finding out we ather than a farmer who works outdoors!
There are people who expect the time to run fast, there are others who observe how fast the time is running, and there are those who live in time (live for the present).
These latter are the most positive.
The Night-owl type of person tend to talk about sleep. When they watch the clock they realize that they are distanced to what they should normally expect to do at this time.
In total when people mention time they are often talking about how tired they are. This is a good reflection of our society’s needs to slow down.
The WebClock was made for the art’s 1.000.047 ‘th birthday and exhibited in Saint George/Seklerland/Transylvania/Romania in 2010 January 15.
I am too tired to sleep.
This would be an amazing screensaver.
Thanks for comments…
It is in my plans to make a screen saver, but I must think about an important issue – If the white block is always in front in the same place, this won’t be healthy for monitors, so I must to play somehow with positive-negative, and maybe with colors as well, or maybe i drop the past and future examples, and I will give to the actual one a slow movement … anyway, let’s see how many people want this clock as screen saver.
I would love this as a screensaver too. Beautiful idea.
Up here for a screensaver too
Amazing clock.
is it creepy strange that i found this website at exactly 9:01 pm and thought the screenshot above was the clock itself? i *almost* thought you had some sort of script for cycling through screenshot images depending upon what time a person entered this site. but that would just be ridiculous and messing with my mind. very cool application
Ok, I will make the screen saver soon and send mail to you when is ready!
Great idea! I would love to have it as a screensaver too!
lovin this – like the coceptial notion that time and ideas are taken from website – Love to have a screensaver of this also – and the possibility of being able to cahnge both the background color and the color of the “clock”…..