“I would like to make solid wood clocks if the opportunity came up. I like glue, and I like to cut with saws.”
Bob Dylan
more infosource: “Bob Dylan in Conversation with John Elderfield,” Spring 2011.
category: carpentry, clock, craft, glue, handmade, wood
medium: Interview
“When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 02000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 02000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium.”
Daniel Hillis
more infosource: quoted on the Long Now Foundation’s website, a cultural institution focused on promoting “slower/better” thinking and providing a counterpoint to our current “faster/cheaper” mind-set.
category: clock, future, Stonehenge, time
medium: Website
“It’s important to me to have a place to work outside of where I live. So I have always found myself an office. I go off to work as if I had a clock to punch; at the end of the day I come home as if I had just gotten off the commuter train. I need to impose a structure on myself.”
Richard Price
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