By Miguel Marquez.
Previously: Frequently Asked Questions
Anita T tweetz:
Even though Clerys is gone the tradition is still alive of meeting under Clerys clock
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— Leo Varadkar (@campaignforleo) September 5, 2017
Yikes.
Previously: ‘They’re Loud And They’re Growing’
Ferrolic: a ferromagnetic fluid clock (still in development) by Zelf Koelman – biomimetic forms driven by an internal system available via a web browser. To wit:
Because the fluid behaves in a unpredictable way, it is possible to give the bodies perceived in the Ferrolic display a strong reference to living creatures. It is this lively hood that enables Ferrolic to show a meaning-full narrative like for instance having the creatures play tag. In addition the natural flow of the material, it can be used to form recognisable shapes and characters. Ferrolic uses these both layers in parallel in order to display scenes and transitions in an poetic, almost dance like, choreographed way.
A clock by London based designers Studio Ayaskan based on the design of a Japanese Zen garden: in this case, raked in the am, smooth in the pm.
This morning
The Shandon Clocktower ‘The four-faced liar’ at the church of St Anne’s Cork city.
Aoife Murphy writes:
It’s stopped again!
Previously: Shandon Clock Fully Repaired
An ingenious if long-winded mechanical timepiece created in 2013 by Turnvator Janosch.
Every minute, a ball is released onto an inclined track where traps indicate the time in minute, five-minute and hourly intervals.
Driven by a 2.5kg weight, the clock runs for twelve hours at a time and according to its inventor, has an accuracy error of just one second in 24 hours.