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ShangKan Clock
OUR
MODERN TIME INDICATION METHOD IS A RELATIVELY NEW INVENTION THRUST UPON THE
HISTORY OF TIME KEEPING. NOT SINCE THE ROMANS INVENTED THE MODERN LATIN
NUMERICAL NUMBERING SYSTEM CAN THE CURRENT CLOCK DEVICE ABLE TO EXIST. AS A
MODERN SOCIETY WE DEPEND SO MUCH ON COUNTING THE HOURS, MINUTES AND SECONDS OF
OUR EXISTENCE IT SEEMS OUR FEAR TOWARDS THE INEVITABLE DEATH OF OUR LIVES BEGIN
THE DAY WE LEARN HOW TO WATCH THE TIME. WE HAVE BECOME THE SLAVE OF SUCH ACCUATE
ACCURATE MEASUREMENT THAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE VAST VARIETY OF TIME
KEEPING METHODS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION’S BEFORE US. THE DEVICES CREATED HERE
ARE NOT AN ACCURATE DISPLAY OF MODERN NUMERICAL TIME INDICATION. YOU CAN FIND
THEM EVERYWHERE FROM YOUR CELL PHONE TO YOUR FRIDGE. THEY ARE DESIGN/SCULPTURE
THAT REMINDS US OF WHAT TIME CAN BE, WHERE TIME IS NOT A UNIFIED METHOD AND HOW
WE CAN ENJOY TIME WITHOUT CONSIDERING ALL THE CONSECUTIVE NUMERICAL IMPOSITIONS.
WE SHOULD SEE TIME AS A METHOD OF LIFE’S EVOLUTION AND NOT AS A LIMITATION OF
DEATH. PLEASE ENJOY A FEW REVOLUTIONS ON ALTERNATIVE TIME TELLING! Starting with
the idea that “Form should deceive its Function”, I wanted to create a clock
that looks unlike any other before it.Deception is the key in the Shang Kan clock and
its name is the hint. When you come across this device for the first time, it
seems like an alien object from outer space. Once you get closer to it, you
will realize that it is an I-Phone docking station, speaker and candle holder.
The candle holding arms can rotate via an internal mechanical device which in
turns changes the physical geometry of the design.So
you now understood that you have an audio entertainment device as well as a
rather strange ambient lighting system but how can it tell time? With the
included circular mirror you are instructed to place it on the ceiling directly
above the Shang Kan clock. Once this is done you will be able to understand
through its ceiling reflection the candle holder arms are actually time
indicators, one of the main structure support leg marks the midday/midnight
position and the mirror’s edge becomes the time indication position.If
you never look up you will never know this device true functionality and only
through discovery can you perceive time. I will not merely call this a clock
but more a deception sculpture and I hope to make the user become as much a
detective or choose to remain as an observer. Like magic, all its secrets lie
just below its exterior!
MODERN TIME INDICATION METHOD IS A RELATIVELY NEW INVENTION THRUST UPON THE
HISTORY OF TIME KEEPING. NOT SINCE THE ROMANS INVENTED THE MODERN LATIN
NUMERICAL NUMBERING SYSTEM CAN THE CURRENT CLOCK DEVICE ABLE TO EXIST. AS A
MODERN SOCIETY WE DEPEND SO MUCH ON COUNTING THE HOURS, MINUTES AND SECONDS OF
OUR EXISTENCE IT SEEMS OUR FEAR TOWARDS THE INEVITABLE DEATH OF OUR LIVES BEGIN
THE DAY WE LEARN HOW TO WATCH THE TIME. WE HAVE BECOME THE SLAVE OF SUCH ACCUATE
ACCURATE MEASUREMENT THAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE VAST VARIETY OF TIME
KEEPING METHODS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION’S BEFORE US. THE DEVICES CREATED HERE
ARE NOT AN ACCURATE DISPLAY OF MODERN NUMERICAL TIME INDICATION. YOU CAN FIND
THEM EVERYWHERE FROM YOUR CELL PHONE TO YOUR FRIDGE. THEY ARE DESIGN/SCULPTURE
THAT REMINDS US OF WHAT TIME CAN BE, WHERE TIME IS NOT A UNIFIED METHOD AND HOW
WE CAN ENJOY TIME WITHOUT CONSIDERING ALL THE CONSECUTIVE NUMERICAL IMPOSITIONS.
WE SHOULD SEE TIME AS A METHOD OF LIFE’S EVOLUTION AND NOT AS A LIMITATION OF
DEATH. PLEASE ENJOY A FEW REVOLUTIONS ON ALTERNATIVE TIME TELLING! Starting with
the idea that “Form should deceive its Function”, I wanted to create a clock
that looks unlike any other before it.Deception is the key in the Shang Kan clock and
its name is the hint. When you come across this device for the first time, it
seems like an alien object from outer space. Once you get closer to it, you
will realize that it is an I-Phone docking station, speaker and candle holder.
The candle holding arms can rotate via an internal mechanical device which in
turns changes the physical geometry of the design.So
you now understood that you have an audio entertainment device as well as a
rather strange ambient lighting system but how can it tell time? With the
included circular mirror you are instructed to place it on the ceiling directly
above the Shang Kan clock. Once this is done you will be able to understand
through its ceiling reflection the candle holder arms are actually time
indicators, one of the main structure support leg marks the midday/midnight
position and the mirror’s edge becomes the time indication position.If
you never look up you will never know this device true functionality and only
through discovery can you perceive time. I will not merely call this a clock
but more a deception sculpture and I hope to make the user become as much a
detective or choose to remain as an observer. Like magic, all its secrets lie
just below its exterior!
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