Digital/Analog Clock
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
Just as the name suggests this clock, designed by Rhode Island School of Design student Alvin Aronson uses an analog mechanism to replicate the numbers on a digital clock’s LCD. The transition from minute to minute is subtle and elegant and would look great embedded into plain white wall, the numbers emerging from its unblemished surface.
D/A Clock Combines Analog and Digital Worlds [YouTube] : portfolio +/- (Artist’s Site) : Core77
Categories: Clock, Design, Technology
Posted at 9:47 am on March 17, 2008
12 Comments -
I’d like to welcome readers to the least-imaginatively titled post in Ectomo’s history. Watch for Ross’ exciting follow-up, “Blog Post.” :)
Comment by John Brownlee — March 17, 2008 @ 10:26 am
I wish this wasn’t just an art project. I would jump on this, and I don’t even have a nice enough place to justify such a classy piece of decor. That’s how classy it is.
Comment by Patrick — March 17, 2008 @ 10:52 am
ihi ih hi hih ih… Subtile as always Mr Brownlee.
anyway mr Rosenberg I’ve got another kind of plaintiff to file. How come that you talk about something created in RI and there’s no reference to our most beloved writer in the post?
Comment by Camillo Miller — March 17, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
Who the hell is our most beloved Rhode Island writer?
Comment by John Brownlee — March 17, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
I had to watch it three times before I noticed the change…that’s impressive.
Comment by Spartacus — March 17, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
Er, that is, the clock is impressive. Not my lack of perception.
Comment by Spartacus — March 17, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
O tempora o mores…
Little hint: Born August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island – Died March 15, 1937 (aged 46) in Providence, Rhode Island
His middle name was Phillips.
Got it?
Jesus dancing Christ boys, I know the green booze is obnubilating your minds, but there’s only one supreme writer from RI!
Comment by Camillo Miller — March 17, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
Word of the day: obnubilating. Not a word, but we should make it one.
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How could we forget about good ol’ HP, Camillo! Still, it may have been a bit of a stretch to link a post about a monochrome wall clock with the founder of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Comment by John Brownlee — March 17, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Quite unusual, i’ll pass you that, but it’s just the verb to “obnubilate” (synonym: “to confuse”) :-)
Well for example:
“This clock has been designed by Alvin Aronson for his course at Rhode Island School of Design. No wonder such a beautiful concept has been developed at 10 Westminster Street in Providence, less than a mile far from H.P.Lovecraft’s residence in Barnes Street. The similarity between the illusion that moves this disguising clock and the whispering alien who disguised himself in darkness as Mr Akeley might be far from evident. Anyway, Mr Aronson, wait for a graduate course admission missive from Miskatonic University.”
I know, it doesn’t work that much.
Anyway, for the sake of knowledge:
“As for the place—I have a fine large ground-floor room (a former dining room with fireplace) and kitchenette alcove in a spacious brown Victorian wooden house at the 1880 period—a house, curiously enough, built by some friends of my own family, now long dead.” (Letter to Frank Belknap Long, 1 May 1926) Lovecraft lived here from April 1926 to May 1933. This house’s address was listed as that of Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett in “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” Works written here include “The Call of Cthulhu,” “Pickman’s Model,” “The Silver Key,” “The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” and At the Mountains of Madness.
source: GoogleMaps
Comment by Camillo Miller — March 17, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
Camillo, you’re our favorite kind of dork: a Lovecraft dork! We won’t mention Rhode Island ever again without cramming his name somewhere into the paragraph.
Comment by John Brownlee — March 17, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Yeah ! The Dorkraft appreciates.
Comment by Camillo Miller — March 18, 2008 @ 4:01 am
Hear, hear! And now I’m going back for another look at the librarian.
Comment by Mogo the Mugger — March 19, 2008 @ 8:18 pm