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.
January 15th, 2006 at 10:00 am
That is the coolest thing I’ve heard of in awhile.
January 16th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Yeah, the idea’s pretty neat, and something that anyone with a camera and a sharpie-pen (or arrangeable fruit) can participate in.
I just can’t wait until the bedside version of this is around: Waking up to “Bert from Dakota” holding a card with 7:14am in one hand, and a stuffed wombat (or something) in the other hand would be…
Well, I’d be awake after that, at least…