Saturday, February 7, 2009

Artists: Yugo Nakamura, Industrious Clock


Yugo Nakamura's Industrious Clock is a website in which the year, month, date, and time are written out numerically over and over again by the image, where a pencil writes each number, then erases it to write the next one. The seconds go extremely fast, while you have to sit and wait to watch the other digits change. The piece is constantly in flux-every user gets a different experience depending on when he/she visits, how long he/she stays, and if, like me, the viewer constantly refreshes to watch the hand write all the digits at once. 
I like this piece because I've seen it before on the internet, it has become almost viral in the way it is spread, so that most people who spend considerable time on the internet have been linked to the industrious clock. It also reminds me of the Human Clock, where users can contribute images to a dynamic, everchanging clock on the page. 

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