Alright, Dailey... You're in trouble now.

As if I didn't have enough projects that I really need to get finished,
you had to toss this challenge in the air.

I should be posting a handful of ideas by the weekend.

<grumble/>
G. Wade

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:23:33 -0400
"ddailey" <ddailey@...> wrote:

> Hey DrTebi,
>
> I have been meaning to add my two cents worth. I like your clock!
>
> It reminds me of a thought I had had a year or so ago when the topics
> of clocks came up here:
>
> there was a sort of golden age of timepieces that seems to have
> emerged in Europe in the period leading up to and including the
> industrial revolution. Gears and gadgets and sounds and rumbling
> robotic animations, all celebrating both our technology and our
> curious human relationship with time! Time: one of the intrinsically
> most observable but least measurable entities in physics. This of
> course got me thinking about the digital age and our persistent
> fascination with the odd tension between the digital and the analogue
> (waves and particles, discrete and continuous, left brain/right
> brain... that sort of stuff). Well here we are in the midst of a new
> Renaissance (the first one was ushered in with plagues, and wars and
> all manner of trouble), and it seems a good time to invent new kinds
> of timepieces!
>
> And of course SVG lends itself to the prototyping of all sorts of
> timepieces that have never yet been built.
>
> How about we have a Friendly Little Intermittent Clockfest!? A FLIC,
> or simply a Clockfest. Let's invite people to submit all manner of
> strange, funny, artful and X* clocks all out of SVG (and CSS and SMIL
> and JavaScript of course). Maybe we could post a little collection
> of links to all of them on PlanetSVG?
>
> More? I am sure they are out there!


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