Archive for the 'time' Category

Using sound to depict the differences between finish times at the Olympics.

"Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens."

Two time capsules buried at Flushing Meadow, to be uncovered 5000 years after being buried.

URL-based methods for adding events to Yahoo and Google (and MSN) calendars. Also includes link for quick documentation of creating and serving .ics files.

Brief discussion of the purpose behind and the technique needed to create "10,000" year photographs. This is particularly interesting in light of current preservation efforts towards art that wasn't meant to last at all. Is permanence our only goal?

Sort of begs the question what is actually made to last? There's artwork in museums that's thousands of years old. And performance art, which can only be curated through means and materials other than the art itself (which then becomes the art itself?)

"This is implemented by making every year divisible by 4 a leap year unless that year is divisible by 100. If it is divisible by 100 it can only be a leap year if that year is also divisible by 400."

History sure bunches up near the present.

Interestingly, shows that the closer to the present a film is set, the more likely it is to have co-occurring films. Also interesting is where the artist has chosen to place vaguely defined futures. Maybe she knows something we don't?

Includes both Timeline of steam power and Timeline of LiveJournal. Sort of via fitnr.

sort of looks like the best waterslide in the universe.