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If the invention of the clock was an assertion of humankind’s control of itself and its surroundings, these spinners seem to indicate the opposite of a clockwork universe, its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every aspect of the machine predictable. #Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives

#Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives

Tick-Tock Tick-Tock - My grandparents clock drawn from memory. A clock whose inner workings were nearly identical to the ones that have been made on the Danish island of Bornholm since 1774. When, in through an act of incidental industrial espionage, the local clockmakers got their hands on a shipwrecked ship full of technologically superior Dutch, or English clocks. #Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives #bornholmerur

Each throbber animation circles around its own center. It keeps time according ultra local circumstances such the computer, software and screens various clock frequencies, rather than dictates of International Atomic Time (TAI), with its leap seconds that are added at irregular intervals to compensate for the irregularities of Earth's rotation. #Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives #InternationalAtomicTime

Sometimes it feels as if I'm caught in a strange loop of past and present: I was thinking about letters made up of letters and the time it takes to read. Trying to get come context and inspiration I read G. J. Alberts interesting paper on "Text Mode Graphics and the 'Scene'". And all of a sudden, I notice that it was Illustrated with examples of ASCII graphic that I made myself in 1990ies. It is if I’m back where I started, wondering if I was also thinking about the passage time and text as a something more than a medium subsumed by it supposed message. http://s.oerum.org/2g1RKRO #Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives #textmodeart

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#Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives

A fill character is a character transmitted solely for the purpose of consuming time. #Throbber #WorkInProgress #UncertainArchives