Let it swim
My friend Mika from Rice and Miso Everyday just taught a skillshare class in west elm market and so I stopped by and said hi. I knew they had such classes but seeing all set up and looking at the future skillshare schedule makes me want to learn something new here!
What would you like to learn new this year?!
I was at the Paper Source the other day and couldn’t help but staring at these beautiful papers… Aren’t they all so lovely?! Makes me want to create something!
OK, I was collecting these Tide boxes when I was in art college. More than 10 years later, they were still at my studio area. That’s so crazy! I was going to make some art with them. Never did. It was a cleaning time. Before I said bye-bye to these boxes, I had to take photos at least. I have so many things like this, I wonder what I would find next…
I have seen this art installation many times (it’s been there since 1999) but never really took pictures or looked into it before… and I was just around the Union Square the other day and decided to take photos and blog about it as this is one of the many New York art installations that everyone recognizes. (but I guess it’s not being loved so much.)
It’s entitled Metronome — The artwork was created by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel and consists of several sections, including a round circular void from which puffs of white steam are released throughout the day, and a clock made of large orange LED digits.
And I always wonder about the LED digits… apparently, it’s a clock!
On the left side of the work is a set of fifteen large LED digits, called “The Passage”, which display the time in 24-hour format. The seven leftmost digits show the time in conventional 24-hour format, as hours (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), seconds (2 digits), tenths of a second (1 digit). The seven rightmost digits display the amount of time remaining in a 24-hour day, as tenths of a second (1 digit), seconds (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), hours (2 digits). The center digit represents hundredths of a second, and appears as a blur.
For instance, if the clock reads “195641188180304” (as in the picture at right), it means that time is 19:56 (7:56 PM) and 41.1 seconds, and that there are 04 hours, 03 minutes, and 18.8 seconds remaining in the day. (From Wikipedia)
I could never read the clock even though I read all that, but it’s good to know that it’s a clock. haha
The wiki page has the artists’ statement etc. it’s so interesting to know more about the piece.