Slog - Comments on Tick...Tock...DEAD! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead Via 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:... Copyright 2008 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:02:37 -0800 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:08:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Aislinn Best birthday gift ever.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973172 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973172 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:06:23 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I need a bigger clock - most of my relatives made it to between 98 and 102 ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973180 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973180 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:10:05 -0800 Comment by Y.F. I don't know how long my clock should tick...do I set it for Grandpa's 84yrs or Grandma's 62yrs?

]]> Y.F. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973215 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973215 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:48:04 -0800 Comment by The Reaper Of course, you could always get hit by a bus tomorrow.

]]> The Reaper http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973221 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:55:30 -0800 Comment by umvue Obsolete.

]]> umvue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973226 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:00:28 -0800 Comment by danielbennettkieneker 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.


]]> danielbennettkieneker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973229 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973229 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:35 -0800 Comment by What? This thread just got hijacked by somebody's crazy grandpa.

]]> What? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973237 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:13:25 -0800 Comment by PeterF 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

]]> PeterF http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973243 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973243 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:31:59 -0800 Comment by Lou Slog Spam!

]]> Lou http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973256 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:54:40 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Damn you, Kieneker, I told you before that you're only allowed to post this shit on Mudede's entries.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973261 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973261 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:12:37 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Yeah that's great, but the wire? Come on.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973263 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:15:02 -0800 Comment by Dr_Awesome 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...?

]]> Dr_Awesome http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973282 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973282 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:01:14 -0800 Comment by john mccain's mom @2: but did your relatives spend their entire lives on slog?

SLOG: reducing your life expectancy

]]> john mccain's mom http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973295 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973295 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:45:28 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable The gift you only need to give once!

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973309 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973309 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:33:14 -0800 Comment by superyeadon i don't like looking at that, but can't stop staring.

]]> superyeadon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973325 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:50:02 -0800 Comment by Cook 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?

]]> Cook http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973330 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973330 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:59:19 -0800 Comment by Cook 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?

]]> Cook http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973331 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:59:35 -0800 Comment by Cook 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?

]]> Cook http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973332 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973332 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:59:53 -0800 Comment by B'town Gabe 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 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973337 Life Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:33:53 -0800 Comment by mmbb 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...

]]> mmbb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973347 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973347 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:11:27 -0800 Comment by DW Images and video from Dan Savages' glorious war on Iraq.

http://iraq.reuters.com/

This comment to be deleted soon as off-topic.

]]> DW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973417 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:34:46 -0800 Comment by DW 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 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973434 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:46:20 -0800 Comment by DW 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 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973440 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973440 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:48:19 -0800 Comment by joey 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.

]]> joey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973497 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:29:31 -0800 Comment by kid icarus I need this for my cube.

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973510 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973510 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:34:34 -0800 Comment by DW joey-

You are either with Bush and Cheney and Savage or against them.

]]> DW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973565 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:57:28 -0800 Comment by Sarah 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.

]]> Sarah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/ticktockdead#c973803 Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:08:20 -0800