Life Tick…Tock…DEAD!
posted by March 18 at 17:02 PM
onVia VVork: a clock, by artist Bertrand Planes, that’s been slowed down 61320 times, so that each line represents a year in the average human life. It’s set to 84 years.
Dig your mortality:
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Best birthday gift ever.
I need a bigger clock - most of my relatives made it to between 98 and 102 ...
I don't know how long my clock should tick...do I set it for Grandpa's 84yrs or Grandma's 62yrs?
Of course, you could always get hit by a bus tomorrow.
Obsolete.
Pretty cool clock yeah... almost a holy light to it.
...and speaking of holy light...
Art lovers the world over, The Stranger and I have made another profound discovery which I am sure may be used against me in a court of haw... but please bear with me for the beauty of the moment...
First off... there is a Photo Art book of the World that I cannot comment on now ....Because.... there is something that my elders on the British side of the net know that I can't convey at the moment about the Electric Horseman.... A Film in New York City.... and the fact that there are still a couple of people that might need a good hand hold while they think about the Syncronicity of finding the good old Dan's Magic finger numbering system yet again responsive to the eye and Salvadorian Dali Lama like mystery of love and forgiveness... with the exception of course Chris Ballew, who I'd like to Shake by the collar of his shirt!
There is a large picture book in the Seattle Koolhaus Library titled,
Galen Rowell: A Retrospective
Compiled By the Editors of the Sierra Club.
Thanks are in order and Chris should buy you all drinks the whole night long!!!
It almost makes me happy to have lived through the discomfort of my 45th birthday.. and for which I accept certain responsibilities for my choices.
I am very fond of the sillouette of Conrad Aker on Mt. Sill, Pallisades
Range High Sierra California 1997.
All of you readers who care to look at that book or picture it online can be assured that it is fun to see what looks like your own shadow on a mountain top named as someone else.
Everyone should try and find their twins... ( I was heavier back when I looked like Conrad).
That picture is almost as nice as the preceding pages... and the
Rainbow over the Patola Palace, Lasha, Tibet 1981.
SUNRISE ON KANGBOCHEN FROM PEKUTSO,TIBET 1988 is desire wonderous...
Almost as inspiring as what appears to me as desolate view near extinction... the Graceful beauty of
Ganden Monestary 1987.
My thoughts and memories are genuine with privacy at the viewing of
GILDED WALL PAINTING OF BUDDHA
RONGBUK MONESTARY, below Mount Everest, Tibet, 1988.
and somewhere I hope
GOLOK BOY WEARING PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY HAT QINGHAI PROVINCE CHINA 1981
understands my rage and protectiveness over crimes and testing against humans and animals and especially violence against women.
To the Middle East and the Jewish Comunity...
Horsemen Beneath a Giant Sand Dune Along the Ancient Silk Road,
Pamir Range China 1980
evokes...
well you'd just have to have a head full of hold to understand my personal displeasure with 9-11,
and the subsequent problems with making my little problems in life as big as the problems of forced labor and slavery and the disparity of power in world economics over the sick, the poor, and those taken advantage of by satire in a foreign language.
Lupines Beneath Torres Del Paine, Patagonia Chile 1998
reminds me of pictures I have of my young children.
The rest of the book is better suited shall I say... left to humble discretion.
P.S.
After viewing the afformentioned enlightenment,
the photo essay,
METAMORPHOSIS by
SERGE NORMANT
explains to me the joy of our excesses and secrecy in stylistic artforms and lack of dialog.... a beauty conveyed in the eye of the beholder... like a face that launched a thousand ships...
to some men is worth dying for or at the very least... fighting til you cannot see the clearing for the leaves on the forest floor.
Low Earth Orbiter reporting for kimyoncats and the mysteryssingerseverywhere.
This thread just got hijacked by somebody's crazy grandpa.
It would be cool to combine with Slog so we commenters can see themselves shitting the remaining precious few moments of our lives away in realtime
Slog Spam!
Damn you, Kieneker, I told you before that you're only allowed to post this shit on Mudede's entries.
Yeah that's great, but the wire? Come on.
Um... if it is calibrated to 82, then each line represents 1.4 years, not one year. See how every five minute mark represents seven years...?
@2: but did your relatives spend their entire lives on slog?
SLOG: reducing your life expectancy
The gift you only need to give once!
i don't like looking at that, but can't stop staring.
i like this a lot. this clock makes me feel really young; i'm in the first quartile. and @12: 84 years, not 82, but yeah, the ticks don't mark one year.
ps: how often do you have to change the batteries?
i like this a lot. this clock makes me feel really young; i'm in the first quartile. and @12: 84 years, not 82, but yeah, the ticks don't mark one year.
ps: how often do you have to change the batteries?
i like this a lot. this clock makes me feel really young; i'm in the first quartile. and @12: 84 years, not 82, but yeah, the ticks don't mark one year.
ps: how often do you have to change the batteries?
Good thing most guys in my family kick out in their 50's. I'll be happy to make it to 6:30.
B'town Gabe, it would be bad form to kick the bucket before happy hour is over. Try to make it until 7:00, at least...
Images and video from Dan Savages' glorious war on Iraq.
http://iraq.reuters.com/
This comment to be deleted soon as off-topic.
Cpl. William D. O’Brien
Hometown: Rice , Texas, U.S.
Age: 19 years old
Died: March 15, 2008 in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Unit: Army, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Killed by small arms fire during combat operations in Baghdad.
Cpl. William D. O’Brien
Hometown: Rice , Texas, U.S.
Age: 19 years old
Died: March 15, 2008 in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Unit: Army, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Killed by small arms fire during combat operations in Baghdad.
DW -- there are so many appropriate places to post things like that. places where you'll actually be well-received and appreciated. drop your crazy vendetta...you're not furthering your cause.
I need this for my cube.
joey-
You are either with Bush and Cheney and Savage or against them.
Apparently if you make it past 84 you just get to start over. I guess that means my grandpa died at 12. What a tragic ending.
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