This is my first idea. It is a match in a squared fame. There stick of the match are equally divided into 12 parts. The flame will start from the right tip of the match and it will move by hours towards the right side of the match and the stick will become black as the flame pass by. After the flame has reached the left tip of the match, it will move to the right like what it did at first but the only difference is that the stick will become the color(222,184,135) like what I set at first. So basically the only moving thing in the whole frame is the flame, and the stick is only changing the color.

This is my second idea. This is an apple tree; it appears as a bald tree(no apple), as the time grows (by hours), the apple will also grow on the tree. There will be 12 apples on the tree when it gets to 12 o’clock; however, once it gets to 13 o’clock, the apple will disappear one by one until it reaches 24 hours.

This is my third idea, and this one is similar to my second concept. This one is more delicate compared to my second idea. This is a 12-petal flower on grass. The petal will grow by hours, and also will drop one by one after 12 o’clock. Also, the sky color will change into different levels of blue every two hours.

Ideas for my visual clock:

1. I was thinking of using emoji-esque visuals to describe different times of the day. For lunchtime, I would draw a mini cowboy with his gun drawn and a cowboy hat on, because it would be high noon at that time. Then, at 2 am, would be a college student fueled by coffee and tormented by his or her own baggy eyes. I would use a solid color as the background for different times of the day, using specific colors for specific moods of the day.
2. I was interested by pixel art, specifically the use of smaller boxes of color to create an idea of a moving wave of color. I was interested in creating a “canvas” of sorts that changes color based on the time of day and also creates an outline of the actual time in a numerical format.
3. I’ve always been interested in the show “24”, which showcases a full day in a counterterrorism agent’s work. The show has intervals of the clock counting down from 24 hours, creating a theme of tenseness and drama. I want to somewhat incorporate that design into my virtual clock.

1. Time will be represented as a wilting flower. Throughout each hour the petals of the flower will fall off and fade away. As the hours pass through the day the stem will warp more and more and drop the flower lower and lower.
2. Time will be represented by the shadow of a white cylinder on the ground for the twelve hours of daylight, moving from left to right and stretching and contracting, throughout the day. By night, this will invert into a white luster of moonlight on a black cylinder which will move the opposite way through the hours of night.
3. Time will be represented by a pair of eyes. As time progresses to noon, the eyes will open wider and wider. At noon the change will reverse and the eyes will start closing. Through the passage of an hour, the pupils will move either from left to right on even hours or right to left on odd hours. Every 3 seconds the eyes will blink.

The artist that I choose is Nathalie Miebach, and I choose her Sculptural Musical Scores.

http://nathaliemiebach.com/musical05.html

I found it interesting that the artist has applied the music scores on art. The reason why I choose it is that I am also an instrument player. The one piece that I have picked from her collection is a piece called the Navigating Into A New Night. She has translated the weather data into the musical scores, which are later converted into sculptures as well as being a source of collaboration with musicians and composers. The works that she has done not only become an artwork but also could be played by musicians.

This is the interpretation of the score.

 

Idea 1: I think that our perception of how much time we have available can be dependent on how tight of deadlines we have ahead. When we have no deadlines to complete anything, there is this freed up space/time that seems much bigger than it did beforehand.  What I made here is a person sitting at a desk with a stack of papers. the stack is connected to this big weight of “deadlines.” As he completes more papers, the weight moves upwards, freeing up more “time.” Eventually the weight is all the way up, and there is plenty of time. When he gets mail again, the cycle repeats.

The way a coffee shop looks throughout the day can tell a lot about what part of the day it is. You would see a large crowd inside here in the morning, then it gets a bit quieter. Around lunch there is a rush of people again, gets quiet, and then again is busy after dark when people come to do work. Overnight, it is completely empty and dark. The next day it repeats.

This idea has more to do with our perception of time. There are studies done that talk about how different animals may perceive time differently than us, based on how quickly we all process the events and images around us. So I wanted to make a sketch that was based on the relativity of time. In this sketch, I am making time dependent on the speed of moving from point A (an outside image) to point B (being processed in the brain). The rate at which this image is processed, as it moves throughout our sensory input and is interpreted by the brain, can kind of create our perception of a “moment” in time. Time can often move slower or quicker based on what we are doing/how engaged we are. So as this processing rate changes, so does how quickly time appears to move.

1) Food: Every second, a bite is taken out of a food. Every second, a different food is shown. Every hour is a different meal/snack. The food shown will depend on the time of day. (i.e. pancakes, sandwich, steak, cake)

2) Water: Every second, a drop of water falls into a container. Every minute, that container’s water falls into a bigger container. Every hour, the bigger container fills up higher and higher with water and hits certain marks.

3) Sky: Every second, a plane moves in the sky. Every minute, the plane reaches the edge of the sky and leaves and restarts with every passing minute. Every hour, the sky changes color, pattern and weather. (i.e. blue, pink, dark, stars, cloudy)

 

1. Record the current time using disney/pixar references. One petal fall every 10 minutes, like beauty and the beast. When all the petals fall, one balloon from the house from Up fly away, and the house lowers. When the house is on the ground at midnight, the beast turns into a prince, the house land on the cliff, and cinderella’s glass slippers fall.
2. Record pain level over time during menstrual cycles using the vibrancy and hue of colors. I’m planning on coding a glass and wine, the pain level is measured by the amount of wine in the glass. Whenever it’s time to eat pain killers(every 8 hours), the wine will be drank by a person.
3. Record the current time with dominos. The dominos will be in 3 different sizes, each representing seconds, minutes, and hours. 60 smaller dominos will push one bigger domino.

1. Tidal Clock- A visualization of time through the rising and falling of sea levels. This could possibly be represented through waves rising and falling in a clock shape, with the numbers on the clock jumbled at the bottom of the clock.
2. Daylight clock- A clock with shaded portions for nighttime, highlighted colors to show daytime.
3. Solar system clock- A clock that shows the planets in our solar system rotating around the Sun to portray the passing of time.

1. My 1st clock concept is to replace the needle on the watch by little balls. So on the watch there are three little balls. Each ball represents the second, minute and hour.
2. My 2nd clock concept is make a swinging ball and count how many times has it swing. It swing once per second. There is a screen on the top of the equipment and shows the number that the ball swings.
3. The third one is a step. A ball would climb up one step per minute and fall down again after 60 minutes.

I chose the example of Guillame-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes. First it may be confusing and hard to understand. But after I read the process of the creation it became easy to read. It actually visualises changes, additions and deletions in the text at multiple scales. So you have a clear sense of the information that this project conveys.