My dad just sent me a link to a really sweet website designed by
Yugo Nakamura with a
perpetually updating handwritten clock. It's a really simple interweaving of the mark of the hand and the amazing things that can be done with computer design. It reminds me of
the movie that Terry Zwigoff made about R. Crumb many years back and how great it was to watch his familiar drawings emerge from his pen in the full-screen close-ups of doodle sessions. There's a meditative aspect to Nakamura's online clock and it feels comforting to watch the hands continually writing and erasing, even if I have a pretty good idea what they're going to draw next.
Christian just told me that Nakamura designed the website for the current show at MoMA called
Design and the Elastic Mind, so I looked at it and it's amaaaaazing! Make sure you play around on it because it's set up with a tagging system so when you click on a topic, it draws lines to all related topics, and you can click on the tags to go there. (Just for fun, see how long it takes you to find these chocolate nipples by Ana Mir!)
Before I disappear back into the virtual ether, I'll mention another online clock that I have been a fan of for many years--
Human Clock. In this perpetually updating handmade clock, all of the images were submitted by others who creatively follow the simple guidelines. Sometimes I use the option to get a "cute little window" of this clock on my desktop and am treated to images from all over the world all afternoon.
My dad just sent me a link to a really sweet website designed by Yugo Nakamura with a perpetually updating handwritten clock. It's a really simple interweaving of the mark of the hand and the amazing things that can be done with computer design. It reminds me of the movie that Terry Zwigoff made about R. Crumb many years back and how great it was to watch his familiar drawings emerge from his pen in the full-screen close-ups of doodle sessions. There's a meditative aspect to Nakamura's online clock and it feels comforting to watch the hands continually writing and erasing, even if I have a pretty good idea what they're going to draw next.
Christian just told me that Nakamura designed the website for the current show at MoMA called Design and the Elastic Mind, so I looked at it and it's amaaaaazing! Make sure you play around on it because it's set up with a tagging system so when you click on a topic, it draws lines to all related topics, and you can click on the tags to go there. (Just for fun, see how long it takes you to find these chocolate nipples by Ana Mir!)
Before I disappear back into the virtual ether, I'll mention another online clock that I have been a fan of for many years--Human Clock. In this perpetually updating handmade clock, all of the images were submitted by others who creatively follow the simple guidelines. Sometimes I use the option to get a "cute little window" of this clock on my desktop and am treated to images from all over the world all afternoon. 
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