Maker Faire City of STEM + Los Angeles 2024
Ken Wilkinson - Video Clocks
Home: California, United States
These are clocks like you’ve never seen before. Unfettered by the limitations of physical clocks, video clocks explore the limitless possibilities of showing time with moving images. Beautiful, funny, thoughtful, and sometimes just head scratching.
https://thevideoclock.com/
Maker
Ken Wilkinson
In 2009 I started experimenting with making clocks. My focus was on how to make them interesting and not just functional. After a few years of this, I decided to try writing fiction as a way to explore ideas that I was unable to construct myself. What evolved was a story with a wealth of interesting ideas about a world of very strange clocks. Clocks that used color or music to give the time. Ten base time and time based food. Clothes or animals as clocks. Some of the ideas were fantastical and others were remotely achievable. Two ideas intrigued me: code-based clocks that are drawn on the fly and clocks that use video to show the time. In 2015 I stopped making physical clocks and moved on to explore these screen-based clocks. These are the video clocks that have come out of that exploration.
https://thevideoclock.com/What Inspired You to Make This?
In 2009 I started experimenting with making clocks. My focus was on how to make them interesting and not just functional. After a few years of this, I decided to try writing fiction as a way to explore ideas that I was unable to construct myself. What evolved was a story with a wealth of interesting ideas about a world of very strange clocks. Clocks that used color or music to give the time. Ten base time and time based food. Clothes or animals as clocks. Some of the ideas were fantastical and others were remotely achievable. Two ideas intrigued me: code-based clocks that are drawn on the fly and clocks that use video to show the time. In 2015 I stopped making physical clocks and moved on to explore these screen-based clocks.
