Time Wheel
January 16th, 02009 by Simone Davalos
Two sand calendars… One year “hourglasses”, each claims to the the largest. I really wonder how those bearings are holding up on the Timewheel. (More from Oddity Central with more pics.)
The Timewheel is the world’s largest hourglass, situated in Budapest, Hungary next to City Park, right of Heroes’ Square and behind the Palace of Art (Műcsarnok). It is made of granite, steel, and glass, and weighs 60 tons. The “sand” (actually glass granules) flows from the upper to the lower glass chamber for one year. – Wikipedia
And the other one from Japan filled with ‘”singing sand” at the Nima Sand Museum in Kotoga Beach:
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Posted on January 16th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Check out the cover of this months Chronogram magazine http://issuu.com/chronogram/docs/chronogramjanuary2009?mode=embed&documentId=081229192207-74243749dd4a449bb68bb3d302693500&layout=grey
its a calander with lunar phases and the sunrise / sunset all in a Steele design.
Posted on January 19th, 2009 at 5:59 am
A jeremiad concerning wasting time and keeping silent.
My not-so-great generation of elders will likely be remembered as the perpetrators of the most perverse, self-serving silence in human history. No other generation has taken so much from this good Earth, threatened the very future of its own children and given so little of themselves to preserve life for coming generations. Photographs of us will disclose both our corpulence and hollowness.
Although the disclosure of truth is unsettling, hiding the truth from the human community could be a monstrous example of human-driven foolery, one that could soon lead to a colossal ecological wreckage.
To suppress the truth by conscientiously substituting whatsoever could somehow be true with willful silence is tantamount to the commission of a pernicious lie.
A widely shared and consensually validated determination among people with knowledge to maintain their silence, when remaining silent betrays intellectual honesty, conceals the truth and thwarts courageous action, is the most dangerous of all global threats to the family of humanity, life as we know it and the preservation of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.
From this perspective, perhaps we can begin to apprehend the actual, most formidable enemy of future human wellbeing and environmental health.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php
http://www.panearth.org
Posted on March 27th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Here is more information about the Prosodic Calendar:
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2009/1/View+From+the+Top/On-The-Cover-Calendar-2009