http://www.daniellara.com/blog Be(a)ware of Yourself Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:19:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.daniellara.com/blog/2009/11/25/20-long-now-clock/ http://www.daniellara.com/blog/2009/11/25/20-long-now-clock/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:43:52 +0000 Daniel Lara http://www.daniellara.com/blog/?p=165 This project is a critical response to Alexander Roses’ creative practice and philosophy.  Alexander Rose is the director of The Long Now Foundation, and its primary functions is to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. One of the most important and famous projects is the 10,000 year clock.  It is being built and has triggered a lot of controversy.  Among other things, I believe that the clock implies that our civilization would get stuck with the Gregorian calendar.  In defense to this and many other questions, Rose says that his main objective of the clock is to trigger conversations about time.  So, I decided to make a series of cheap clocks that would trigger some time meditations:

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