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Time Scroll is a web browser-based 24 hour clock. Every increment of the 24 cycle, down to the second, is rendered to the browser. It starts with 00:00:00 at the top and ends with 23:59:59 at the bottom. Each second, the browser scrolls one tick downward to change the display of the current time. The location of the browser’s scroll bar gives you a general sense of where we are in time relative to the 24 hour cycle.

Time Scroll is written in Javascript and PHP.

[Time Scroll]

Some clocks are functional, some are not very practical. This is an ongoing series of clock experiments.

Each clock is written in Processing and presented here using processing.js.

link: [time 00]

Crow’s Flight is a GPS compass app for the Android platform. Enter an address and the GPS compass will continuously update your position and point towards the destination. Distance to the point is displayed in meters or kilometers along with a visual distance gauge. More info over at cwwandt.com/crows-flight

Here’s a little project from 1 in 1 for ITP30.

http://cwwang.com/avdrop/

I want people to be able to drop their avatars into an open space and drag as far or close as they want to others. or something like that. here’s something. drop your avatar in and get close to Red.

Blockhead Stem, designed by cw&t. Now on sale at cwandt.com/blockhead-stem

Norwegian newspaper, Stravanger Aftenblad (Fredag 29, Mai 2009), published an article in their Pluss insert covering Time in Six Parts. I have no idea what it says. Can someone translate? I like Filmklokken.

We rely heavily on our vision to identify change. We see sand accumulating at the bottom of the hourglass. We see the minute hand rotate clockwise. How would our sense of time change if we cast time to another sense?

Thermal Clock is a timepiece that positions heat along a bar over a 24 hour cycle to tell time.

Using an array of peltier junctions, heat is emitted from a focused area moving from left to right along the bar over the course of a day.

Thermal Clock from che-wei wang on Vimeo.

Time is our measure of a constant beat. We use seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, etc. But what if we measured time against rituals, chores, tasks, stories, and narratives? How can we use our memory, prediction, familiar and unfamiliar narratives to tell time?

As a child, I remember using the length of songs as a way to measure how much time was left during a trip. A song was an appropriate period to easily multiply to get a grasp of any larger measure like the time left until we arrived to our grandmother’s place. The length of a song was also a measure I could digest and understand in an instant.

The first iteration of Cinematic Timepiece consists of 5 video loops playing at 5 different speeds on a single screen. The video is of a person coloring in a large circle on a wall.

The frame furthest to the right is a video loop that completes a cycle in one minute. The video to the left of the minute loop completes its cycle in one hour. The next completes in a day, then a month, then a year.

Through various iterations, we intend to experiment with various narratives and rituals captured in a video loop to be read as measures of time.

The software was written in OpenFrameworks for a single screen to be expanded in the future for multiple screens as a piece of hardware.

Cinematic Timepiece is being developed in collaboration with Taylor Levy.

Download the fullscreen app version [http://drop.io/cinematicTimepiece#]

Part One : In a Lifetime

Part Two : Cinematic Timepiece

Part Three : One Hour Sprocket

Part Four : Thermal Clock

Part Five : Counting to a Billion

Part Six : 3.16 Billion Cycles

Six timekeeping devices were built as part of my thesis project at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at TISCH, NYU.