Flower Clock (Work in progress 2)

It is getting bigger. I've just read that Carl von Linné (Linneus) actually planted one in Uppsala Sweden. I wonder how much observation time is needed to get to understand this. Maybe Linneus was also standing on the shoulders of giants.
Maybe he had more time than we do. However, I also enjoy having the time to draw this.

Flower Clock (Work in progress 1)

I have mentioned that the floral clock is my favourite. So I have started an attempt to draw one.
These are my humble beginnings.
While outside autumn and winter (also political) are coming, this gives me enough warmth and pleasure to stay optimistic.
A world with floral clocks cannot be entirely bad.

Clock time, social time, body time II

Another representation of the same problem

Clock time, social time, body time

As regards time, I consider this to be the most crucial relation of all. How can we live (body time) together (social time) in the face of pressure on us that is measured, even dictated by clocks (clock time)?
Shouldn't there be a paradigm shift from the power of the clock to the power of the body before it is TOO LATE?

Time for Largo Appassionato

As Friedrich Gulda hammers his fingers into the piano in Beethoven's 2nd Piano Sonata in A Minor (wait a moment I have to replay that bit) I wonder again about time, its representations, the question if it is an illusion, chronobiology and time's more pragmatic aspects of: When shall I get up? and How long shall I boil my egg?
The slow bits of Beethoven's piano sonatas as for instance the Largo Appassionato of the 2nd, give you time. Time to enjoy music even when writing your blog.
Bamm, bamm, bamm jadada da da bam bam bamm. Brilliant.
Ok, ok let's speed up. It's time for Allegretto at least.
No more hammering, more flying across the keys.
My thoughts also start to speed up.
Which means that I am getting confused.
Ah the Scherzo is over.
Now it's Rondo time.
No stop again.
Let's play the Largo Appassionato one more time.
Click there. Double click choose. Click back.
Close your eyes and enjoy !!!

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Bamm, bamm, bamm jadada da da bam bam bamm

The Tooth of Time

Unfortunately the German expression "der Zahn der Zeit" meaning the ravages of time does not exist in English. The tooth of time mercilessly gnaws away everything: beauty, solidity even stone.
Additionally it rots away itself. Teeth are marvelous symbols for our progress through life.
They hurt when they arrive, they cause trouble when they try to leave you again.
From milk teeth to wisdom teeth they are a kind of clock for your biological age or just the detectors for the effects some of your unhealthier habits.
So consider the tooth, from the tooth fairy to the sabre-toothed cat, from cradle to grave, from shining white to utterly rotten.
So the most evident victims of the tooth of time are teeth itself. This idea makes me smile a big smile showing almost all of my teeth.

Today, on my way to the dentist, I passed a border control that held up a number of refugees. I wonder what the future will hold for them and for us. May our teeth rot together in peace and understanding.

25 Years 25 Questions

It is class reunion time.

What is your job now?
Are you married?
Do you have children?
Can you remember xy?
Can you remember what we did to yz?
Where is x?
What happened to y?
Were you there 5 years ago?
Do you still have that hobby?
Do you still ski?
How often?
What are your plans?
Do you still see xyz?
Do you earn a lot of money?
Why do you look much younger than I do?
Where does your belly come from?
Is it the good life?
Do you really speak xy?
How old is your wife?
Do you want children?
What is your wife's job?
Where do we go after closing time?
Is it far?
Is there enough room for all of us?
Is x still here?

That is all you need to know...

However, we had a good time.

Ars Electronica Time 2015

My 10 favourite moments at this year's Ars Electronica Festival in Linz were:

1) 1001 Models of Habitat for the 21st Century, a collection of architect's models from Austria presented in a huge hall at the Post City

2) The venue of the Post City itself

3) 3-D printed sculptures by Nick Ervinck andJonathan Keep

4) The hybrid Art exhibits, especially PSX Consultancy and Teacup Tools

5) The Prix Forum with the winning artists in the category hybrid art

6) Gerfried Stocker's introduction parcours in general

7) The Mercedes F015

8) The Deep Space Presentation of Artwork at a Refugee Settlement in Jordan

9) ESEL-Complain, a self designed bycicle

10) The general atmosphere of the world coming to Linz