Time Eater Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

The hour approaches. The beast's jaws gape, its tail quivers and then snap! Another minute has been devoured, and the hour strikes with the ominous clonk of a chain dropping into a coffin. The creature blinks twice in satisfaction.

"It is terrifying, it is meant to be," said John Taylor, the creator and funder of an extraordinary new clock to be unveiled tomorrow by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. "Basically I view time as not on your side. He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next. It's not a bad thing to remind students of. I never felt like this until I woke up on my 70th birthday, and was stricken at the thought of how much I still wanted to do, and how little time remained."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/18/corpus.clock

The clock is one of Time's Best Inventions of 2008!

you can find other versions in workshop.

crhieatt, batalay, bostankorkulugu has marked this note useful

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crhieatt (5143) 2009-03-14 16:37

Ayse,

Three great views from the price of one.....three times the time.....it's getting late!

Regards
colin

batalay (20690) 2009-03-14 17:52

Merhaba Ayse,

What an excellent photograph, complemented by a surpassing note. I hung onto every word, every phrase. I met Steven Hawking at Oxford, when I was young visiting professor and he came from Cambridge to give a talk (in the early 70s, then again in 1979 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, on the occasion of the Einstein Centennial). The link you made available is very useful and informative, seeing the clock in operation is a ripe cherry on the whipping cream, augmenting the package. Incidentally, today — March 14 — is Einstein's 130th birthday.

Warm regards, selam ve saygilar,

Bulent

umutlu101 (4748) 2009-03-15 1:05

görmesini ve bakmasini bilene detaylarda yasami yakalamak kolay. güzel bir anlatimi bu "yasamin"
merci!
ömer

bostankorkulugu (33334) 2009-03-15 22:02

ayşe çok beğendim bunu... neye baktığımı anlamasam da!>:P... bence son zamanlardaki en yaratıcı fotoğrafın... köşedeki unionjack bile süper denk gelmiş valla... tebrikler...

otistikdj (330) 2009-03-23 15:32

Slm, cok hos bir kare, ama ben de bostankorkuluğu gibi neye baktigimi tam olarak anlayamadigimi itiraf etmeliyim :) Yansimalar son derece etkileyici, ellerine saglik

burGu (4528) 2009-03-29 15:06

Neye baktığım hakkında en ufak bir fikrim olmamasına rağmen farklı yansımaların, ışık oyunlarının etkisi altında kakalak gibi kalmış durumdayım.
Baktım anlamıyorum, bari yansımalarda seni arayayım dedim ama o da nafile... Bayılıyorum böyle ne olduğu anlaşılmayan fotoğraflara :)
Ellerine sağlık
Burcu

veyselk (3704) 2009-04-05 1:32

merhaba ayşee

zamanının değerini askerde daha çok öğreniyor insan. burda bırak günleri saatleri bile sayıyoruz desem yalan olmaz heralde.
güzel bir yakın plan çekim olmuş.
ellerine sağlık

veysel

tehanu_f (6874) 2009-05-05 5:13

ben de anlamadan sevdim, cok egzantrik olmus. :)

amazon (10385) 2009-05-13 13:56

yasama dair,yayinlanan ulkeye dair,incelikli,bilmeceli ve goren gozlere layik bir sey bu,
ellerine saglik,
iffet