Gecko Bloggle

Quite some time ago, I noticed that there was a site out there somewhere called HumanClock, where instead of a normal wall or digital clock, they’ve got pictures with the time in them. Some are really cool, some are silly, but every day at 2:44pm, The Ruby Show starts…

As many of you noticed, at 2:44pm a little “story” starts on the clock site. Sometime around December 2004, three different people from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Virginia started sending in photos responding to the previous minute’s photo. This went on for the next six months. Much like an overpriced anthology book, all of the photos are collected here (sorry, no outtakes or previously unreleased photos) with each partipant talking about the photo. A big thanks to John, Camille, and Leanne for putting time and effort into this.

Even when things are supposed to be totally random, patterns emerge. Communities rise up where there’s no reason to, but arise they do. Gives us hope sometimes. The Ruby Show is an example of a tribeless tribe. People who work towards some sort of common goal, no matter how silly that goal may be. They share common beliefs, no matter how obscure those beliefs may be (that there’s something about 2:44pm that people should pay attention to).

That hey, people and time interact strangely.

deviantART: Focus by *Jesar is really quite gorgeous…

  Check it out, and everything else Jesar does.  It’s got this great “looks like someone could make one” look about it.  Mixed plastics and metals in the images, putting me in mind of the Bjork video or “All is full of love“

(Also, I found an excuse to use Performancing, the blogging plugin for Firefox).

Alive in Joburg is a short film done with some beautiful ComputerGenerated/Film combinations, set in South Africa. Topic is alien invasion. Freaky. Beautiful (cept the rubber-suit stuff).

Requires Quicktime and broadband (and audio, of course).

Via Scott…

So who wants to lend me their camera?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cameratoss/interesting/

Rachaelsleight.com has some gumboots that don’t look like gumboots. Sadly, what they really look like is earthworm costumes for your legs. Still, if they had colours other than “Halloween Toffee,” which I’m sure they do/will, I could see people wanting these.

via No Garlic Please

Via No Garlic Please.com

A sofa is discovered in the back streets of Deptford. Sad looking, with its broken leg and ripped leather, its fate was to be left out on the streets, damp and rejected. Thinking this was not a good way for it to go, Raw Nerve took it back to the studio. It sparked the group’s imagination as we considered all the things it may have experienced in its lifetime.

Via We Make Money Not Art, there’s the project called Playing the Building

I wish I had had enough equipment, time, and mostly, MONEY to have done this in just about any place I’ve ever lived. And maybe a few cars.

Maybe one that’s SILENT.

Researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes

Berkeley, you magnificent bastards.

Looks different based on where you are in the world (weather patterns, etc).

Why can’t they do this with ALL videos?

click here to check out the video for “You Make Me Feel” Squippy little tune, too.

Overheard in New York has a collection of things overheard on the streets and subways of New York.
Eg:
A guy and a girl are sitting on one side of the train, talking. Another girl is sitting across the train.
Girl #2: Stop confusing her.
Guy: We’re not confusing her, we’re making fun of you.
–R train
Good stuff, but not always safe for work. May also cause you to think people in New York (not necessarily New Yorkers) don’t know where they are. I guess they took the “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere” line too far, and think that since they’ve made it to New York, they effectively arrived everywhere at once.