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Clock of clocks

This clock by Christiaan Postma consists of more than 150 separate clocks, each of them playing a role in a hybrid typographic/hand device to tell what time it is.

Christiaan explains the concept:
The word “three” completely appears when it’s exactly 3 o’clock and will then transform again as time passes. The word “four” begins to appear and at exactly 4 o’clock the word “four” is clearly visible. The word “three” is by then totally vanished and no longer readable.

Hard to visualize? Watch the accelerated animation below to see how it works.

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Out of focus

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Photography may still be in the middle of the digital revolution, but there is another era right around the corner. One that may just destroy the art of photography. The Lytro light-array camera features a plenoptic sensor which collects directional…

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Zimoun

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BLDG blog posts a lovely compilation video of swiss artist Zimoun‘s work.

Titles like 200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements (2011) and 121 prepared dc-motors (2011) may be factually descriptive but you need to watch the video to see what they mean.

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Land of Giants

Architecture and design are about function and emotion. Choi + Shine Architects just combined both in this wonderfully imaginative powerline pylon concept. This concept turns the ubiquitous mundane metal towers into walking giants, frozen in their step, turning bystanders into…

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