Life Clock

By Alex in Art, Pictures on Oct 1, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Artist Bertrand Planes slowed down a typical clock mechanism 61,320 times and re-numbered the clock face, so each minute represents a year, to show how many more years are left in a typical life. Link – via Swissmiss


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  1. CheeseDuck
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Time flies!

  2. Tim
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    So that’s art ehh?

  3. Denise Smith
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    BORING!!!!!!

  4. EEM
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    wow that’s vaugely depressing

  5. samantha
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    both amazing and depressing.

    glad to know i’m only at a quarter past a lifetime.

    or.. that’s terrifying.

  6. Algonkin
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    looking at that for some movement would be like watching paint dry.

  7. CheeseDuck
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    I guess it could also be kind of like reincarnation cause it starts again after it hits 0.

  8. Lasse
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Does it have an alarm?

  9. Helen W
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    If it was a minute a year, wouldn’t it still go up to 60? Or 59 then 0, if you’re being even more pedantic.

  10. Krystel
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Wow…that’s not depressing at all.

  11. rintrah
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    So is a normal clock sort of like a “Dog life clock?”

  12. Savage
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Plug it in once a year and save electricity.

  13. James Kurtz III
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Yikes! It’s about 4 o’clock for me. Does that mean I only have an hour left of work. Wait, now I’m confused…

  14. violet
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    I already have a clock like that at the back of my skull. Do not need real life version.

  15. ted
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 am

    Ah, I wondered what that was at the back of your skull, violet.

  16. t-shirt design
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am

    boring because it would never really move.. do people really need a clock to remind them their age?

  17. Thomas
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    How would you know when the battery needs changing?

  18. Thomas
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Ignore that, it has a cord.

    (facepalm)

  19. xadrian
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Glad I’m not the only one thinking this is depressing. “Hey loser! You only have 35 minutes left to DO something with your life!”


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