December 17th, 2009
I need a humancalendar.com model for "2010". You'd need to sign a release and be able to come to my freezing garage in the Portland, OR, USA area. Prefer someone that is out of the age 25-35 and/or caucasian demographic, but anyone is welcome.
You can contact me via the contact page if interested.
November 30th, 2009
One of the more unique submissions in awhile:
September 23rd, 2009
The Flaming Lips were shooting a video near my house today up at Mt. Tabor. I went over there and participated in the video. It involved a lot of bicycles and people being naked...it was quite an experience! I shot a lot of "making of" photos and video...but will leave them offline until the official video comes out.
Parks containing an extinct volcano with basketball courts in their crater surely must inspire great videos like this one today, since it definitely worked on my current favorite video of all time, which was shot on the south side of the park.
Anyway, during a break I showed Wayne Coyne my tattered photobook and he posed for a clock photo. Later on I got a clock photo of his wife Michelle, holding a clock photo I took back in 2002 when I was biking around Australia. Nice group of folks that whole bunch was.
September 8th, 2009
Summer is ending and "coding season" is beginning! Only a few more days until one of my new favorite bands, Star Anna & the Laughing Dogs come back to Portland on the 11th at the Laurelthirst. (full disclosure: I used to play Space Legos and Atari with their drummer back in '83)
June 6th, 2009
I'm a bit behind in getting clock photos into the site since I finally got normal (eg Broadband) net access again. Nothing else to add, but the next time you do laundry, be sure to to sing in your best Chris Cornell voice: ""I'm doin' laundry....I'm doin' laundryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeaaah!!!"
May 18th, 2009
First off, I have a humanclock Twitter account for the clock site but hardly ever use it due to lack of followers/etc. I should be using it more once the new site is done. You can follow it if you wish.
Secondly, one of the more unique photos submitted in recent memory, thanks again to the wonderful crazyphotoman:
May 3rd, 2009
Greetings from Chicago, Illinois
April 14th, 2009
Cora and I are gonna be going to New Orleans at the end of April. After that I'm going to make my way back to Portland via Greyhound/Amtrak, taking clock photos the whole way back. I'm excited to get a chance to walk around everywhere and take clock photos of people and things. I haven't been able to do this for a little while and always enjoy doing it.
Over the last year or so people have been asking about having an iPhone app for the clock. That will probably come out at the same time as the new clock site (in a few months).
March 24th, 2009
Work on the new humanclock.com site is progressing along, although I don't know exactly when it will be done since there is a lot of stuff/work/things to do still. To answer many people's questions, yes the new site will have an embeddable version so you can put the Human Clock on your website. The embeddable version of humancalendar.com has been really popular so I really want to get one done for this website also.
On another note, I did manage to stop working on the new site long enough to, along with Atari Yoga Girl, go see Herman Dune play last night at Holecene. They even posed for clock photos afterwards. Nice guys! Try and see them if they are coming to your town. They have many cutevideos, plus I also posted some parts of the show last night on the humanclock channel of youtube.
January 21st, 2009
A couple of quick economic notes. I have an upside down map of the world that I bought in New Zealand. I gave it to my parents for Christmas but somehow it founds its way into a box marked "Craig" that my mom gave me when I went home last. Buy now and amaze your friends!
January 20th, 2009
On March 13th, 2003, five minutes after I finished a 13 month bicycle trip around the Australian continent, a guy was berating me that "Americans needed to do something about Bush". I can say that they finally have in a figurative sense. Not to get all poli-ticsy, but even if Obama doesn't actually end up riding a metaphorical unicorn over rainbows and instead does metaphorical burnouts in his '72 Ford Pinto, at least I won't have to walk out of a hostel full of laughing foreigners because my president is on the TV.
January 4th, 2009
It is a New Year and I have um, a lot more free time now! Expect a new humanclock.com site and a more diverse group of people on humancalendar.com. I recently moved everything to (a lot) faster server so this should handle some load issues that were showing up daily around 11am. (when everybody is at work watching the clock instead of working).
I haven't made any videos lately, but I would like to share probably one of my favorite music videos of all time, or as Ezra Caraeff from the Portland Mercury describes it: "The single greatest video in the history of ever". This guy I know, Aaron, is in a band called Red Fang, and along with Whitey McConnaughy they made a video a few months ago for their song "Prehistoric Dog". I saw this video and it became part of my morning routine for a good three weeks: Wake up, drink coffee that Cora made earlier, turn on computer, read salon.com, watch Red Fang video, read slashdot.org, answer email, process clock photos, watch Red Fang video, and so on. An even bigger bonus is that it takes place on my jogging route! Anyway, they are going on tour soon so you can catch them if they are in your area, although they might be leaving the costumes at home.
Since I know more people view this site at work than at home, the video is probably safe for work, especially if your boss likes a lot of mayhem and Monty Python references.
December 18th, 2008
Over the next couple of days, I am moving all my websites (including this one) over to a new server, so uploading/submitting photos will be disabled for a day or two. The new server is a lot faster, more expensive, and most important of all, doesn't have a hard disk that is 40,500 hours old (really!)
November 22nd, 2008
Cora and I (plus about 12 other people) went and saw the Drive By Truckers / Hold Steady show at the Crystal Ballroom. After the show Cora spotted Patterson Hood of the DBT. She borrowed a marker from the sound guy and I wrote the time on her arm. Patterson was surrounded by a gaggle of guys asking him music-related questions, so when Cora asked him to take a photo with her, he ignored them for a second and nicely obliged.
A guy from Alabama and a girl from Arkansas.
November 5th, 2008 October 13th, 2008
Happy Birthday wishes to Sister Teresa.
Ok, all kinds of non Humanclock but mostly Youtube stuff going on. You can watch the Big Lebowski bike ride movie here, it is safe for work although you can hear John Goodman ranting in the background at one point:
I also went though a bunch of my old VHS tapes and put a few things online. A couple of which were early press things for the Humanclock site. The first is from 2001 back when both the cardboard and my Hüsker Dü t-shirt were free of any tears or holes. For the next couple of years this piece would air all over the US when a local TV station needed space to fill at 11:57pm on a Sunday night:
The following is from TechTV in 2004. I didn't know who Cat Schwartz was at the time, but the fact that she thought my old high school camaro was "hot" made me excited that the "girls-calling-my-camaro-hot / per dollar spent on camaro" ratio dropped from $860 to $716.67! This video also shows that I haven't updated the layout of this website in almost five years:
And if those were not enough, there are even more videos here.
September 30th, 2008
I have the Big Lebowski bike ride video finished in all of its 18 minutes and 54 seconds of glory, but am having to search out another video provider due to Youtube's oppressive time limit restrictions. So check back in a few days for that.
In the meantime, Cora and I went and saw Spiritualized a couple weeks ago. That was by far one of the best shows I've ever seen. We were standing about 5 feet away from J Spaceman himself. A long story short, we ended up getting to meet him a couple of hours after the show. I wasn't able to get a photo of him holding up a time, but I did hold out a 12:30am notecard during the show and took one with him in the background.
After we were outside I took a few more clock photos. Cora wrote about the whole experience on her blog (http://www.pantiesinapinch.com/?p=85) (not linked due to spammer-jerks). I'm glad that she didn't mention how I got all teary eyed during the title track of Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space. The song reminds me of when I used to have to ride my bike up a bunch of oppressive hills (click on elevation: large) to see her and then we'd fall asleep to that album.
July 6th, 2008
A couple weeks ago my roommate Kevin and his friend Kevin organized a Big Lebowski-themed bike ride for Pedalpalooza. I helped out with some of the planning and playing A/V monitor thoughout the proceedings. Below is a group photo that we had some random guy on the street take. If you click on the photo you can get the full-sized version (suitable for framing). I am in the process of getting the video together. Check back again in a week or two and I should have a page up of photos and video.
June 18th, 2008
My friend George has appeared in severalphotos on this site over the last seven years, but now you can see him on "TV". Look for him tonight on the History Channel's "Tougher in Alaska".
May 9th, 2008 Austin, Texas
Cora and I are in Austin this weekend. My friend Kevin told me to go check out this bike shop. We found the address on the map and walked to this bike shop named "Mellow Johnny's". They open tomorrow (May 10th) but they were letting people come in and check it out. The nice guy who runs it, Lance, just happened to be there so I got a clock picture of him holding up the humanclock cardboard. During the whole time of biking around Australia I stopped at a lot of bike shops and took humanclock photos with the owners, so I figured I should continue the tradition in the US, too. This bike shop was kinda cool in that there were a lot of yellow jerseys up on the wall and such (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). You can see a couple of them in the photo below.
April 10th, 2008
A couple of things...
Humanclock is now available for the like-Traci!-check-this-out-OMG-it-is-so-cute Chumby device.
February 27th, 2008
No new clock site yet, but a new dog video instead! We rented a Bakfiets from Clever Cycles the other day and I took Cora and Bonzi for a ride. A Bakfiets is a Dutch Cargo bike capable of carrying things such as a child, keg of beer, and pumpkins....all at once. Look for a cameo appearance at 1:00min from the green backpack that carries the clock cardboard. Hey Craig, comb your hair before picture day.
February 15th, 2008
Happy New Year 46 days ago!
I figured if I left the video of Bonzi in a prominent place for long enough he would eventually surpass the view count of the official video of the Flaming Lips song I used. That finally happened a few days ago, Cora said Bonzi gets a rice and chicken dinner to celebrate. Success has obviously gone to his head in that the other day Cora came home and the large stereo speaker and my 8 track player ($1.00 at a yard sale) were knocked over onto the floor. Seems someone was trying to jump from a chair, to the top of the speaker, to the top of the five foot-high record cabinet...where there was a bag of chips.
Anyway, I've been working on a new version of this site. Hopefully it should be online before summer. The current version of the site is about four years old and is quite crusty in places. The new version (4.0!) is a complete code rewrite. I had to do this since a lot of the current code is nearly 7 years old and frankly, looks like it was written when I was 7 years old.
I also managed to get a clock photo of the staff of Bar Carlo the other day. If you haven't been there, it is this great restaurant in SE Portland at 65th and Foster. (plug plug)
December 19th, 2007
He shows up on this site from time to time, sometimes even smiling. Now you can see Bonzi in video form.
November 27th, 2007
Mill Valley, CA Congrats to Brinke in Concord, CA for submitting his 644th humanclock photo!
November 16th, 2007
4334 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Cora and I went to Los Angeles last weekend to see friends. We went to the flea market at the Rose Bowl that has to be the Woodstock of flea markets. We were there for over three hours and didn't even make it though half of the vendors. We paid a visit to the wall above that is on the cover of Elliott Smith's Figure 8 album. On the last day we went to the strike in front of Paramount Studios on Monday and took a few clock photos there.
October 12th, 2007
The story goes for anyone who knows me is that I take a lot of video/photographs and it is years before anyone ever sees it. I finally broke this cycle and put up my first Youtube video. All of the footage here is less than two MONTHS old!
The video contains some of the footage I had from the Portland Soapbox Derby up at Mt. Tabor in August 2007. Some of the view was shot on a modified Fisher-Price PXL 2000 camera. This camera was famous because it would record creepy black and white video onto a standard audio cassettes.
Look for a quick clip of the Unicorn Girls getting ready for their 2:27pm clock photo. I didn't have my good camera with me that day (three video cameras was enough!) so the clock photos didn't turn out as well as I wanted. It was a lot of fun though. Oh, the second song is off of some compilation of Brazillian dance music I have. If anyone knows Portuguese and knows what they are singing about, please email me.
August 3rd, 2007
The movie Towncraft that I mentioned below is playing at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland this coming Monday and Tuesday (8/6-7). You can see Cora in all her 30 seconds of big screen glory (Ian Mackaye and Cora within the same minute of film!).
July 29th, 2007 - SE Portland, Oregon
Tom otherwise known as "August" after getting his photos taken for humancalendar.com
July 24th, 2007
I just moved humanclock.com to a new (and faster!) server. Please let me know if you find any problems. Humancalendar.com is staying busy...the people on humancalendar.com are staying busy too, one of them kissed Willie Nelson a couple weeks ago!
July 7, 2007
I originally wanted to make this announcement at 7:77am on 7/7/2007 but that didn't quite work out due to a couple bugs. Anyway...
If you are wondering why the humanclock.com site looks like a lumbering 747 held together with duct tape or why I haven't responded to your email, it is probably because I have been sinking the last three months of my spare time into humancalendar.com. I came up with the idea several years ago and just now got it finished. Most of the code was written in 2003 in New Zealand at the house of this guy named Robin. In a very strange case of synchronicity, Robin is in Portland this week and I'm meeting up with him tomorrow. The last time we saw each other I was just starting the calendar four years ago.
Basically I herded 40 friends though my garage and took a total of 3,992 pictures. New people will show up in the coming months. Click on the photo below for the full calendar.
April 30th, 2007
Oh! Now I have clock photos of not one but two Grammy (insert trademark symbol here) award winning musicians. A couple weekends ago Cora and I managed to see three concerts in about a week. The first was Richard Buckner at Dante's. I've seen Richard many times over the years, the best probably being the day after I finished biking around Australia. Long story short, I remember being in Richard's dressing room telling him lurid stories about the trip (not on the lunky.com site) and he was hanging onto every word.
Anyway, the second show we saw that week was The Thermals at the Hawthorne Theater. It was a great show, the band looked happy, the crowd was happy. I think the only unhappy person was some guy who yelled out "play some NEW stuff!" (but this person didn't say stuff). This was a first for me, usually it is people yelling out for some obscure b-side only issued in Portugal on an Edison Wax cylinder. I have a tape of a Hüsker Dü show from March 1987 where they are playing the brand new Warehouse album all the way though. Here the crowd is being treated to this great album for the first time and some guy in the crowd has the nerve to yell at them to play some of their old songs. (they were putting out a lot of material back then...so songs from 3 years earlier would be considered "old").
The third show we went to was Dan Zanes and friends. Cora's friend Colin (see way down below) plays drums with Dan. This was the most entergetic show of the three due to the audience. Dan plays music for children and adults. (you can find his CDs at Starbucks, etc). After the show Colin, Cora and I walked over to the park near the Aladdin Theater. I took a photo of Cora and Colin on the merry-go-round (milking an idea I had in 2001). We walked back to the theater afterwards to get a clock photo with Dan. Dan's tour manager was trying to hurry people up so they could get to the airport in time. After they finished packing, Dan and Colin looked at each other and said "ok! clock time!" They ran like two excited kids over to me and grabbed the cardboard. I led them over to a nearby garage and took a few photos.
April 14th, 2007
Hey, I really need MySpace friends! Maybe someday I'll get around to actually changing the page layout there.
I've been working on updating the time songs list. It is this gigantic imposing mess of spam and duplicates (please, no more 3am's by Matchbox 20!) to wade though, so I don't keep it updated as much as I should.
April 12th, 2007 Early March, 2007 - Honolulu, State #50 (from left) Cora, Cora, LJ, LJ, Cora, Cora, Cora, Me
March 19th, 2007 December 2006 - Little Rock, Arkansas
Jim, Cora, and Bonzi all showing off their pearly white teeth! I took this photo when I was in Little Rock with Cora recently. Jim was in town for Christmas and he took us to a thrift store east of town. I bought an Aerosmith 8-Track (Toys in the Attic), and we took this photo in the parking lot afterwards.
On a side note concerning Little Rock: Jim, Cora, and Colin (the guy in the Physical Graffiti photo on the news page) are all in this new film titled Towncraft. Bonzi wasn't interviewed for the film, mostly due to the fact that he was -8 years old in 1992 and he is more concerned about the Little Rock food scene instead.
March 7th, 2007
Ah, finally back online after 10 days of being stuck in Hawaii. The first part of the trip was in a shopping mall (that had hotel rooms and $10.00 hot dogs) in Waikiki. The second part of the trip was spent on a quiet beach not far from the home of Thomas Magnum, P.I. and the home of an unnamed rock star from an unknown band. (when I said his name to our host, she said "Oh yes, that is it, he is a nice man.")
January 1st, 2007 - Winslow, Arizona
My Lord!, Cora, Bonzi, and a flat bed Ford near a famous corner in Winslow, Arizona.
Check out the news archive for witty little things concerning Madonna, Drugstore Cowboy, Richard Buckner, and the Sydney Opera House.
Look ma, I've lost 2 minutes of my life due to this lame website
Cora and I went to Los Angeles last weekend to see friends. We went to the flea market at the Rose Bowl that has to be the Woodstock of flea markets. We were there for over three hours and didn't even make it though half of the vendors. We paid a visit to the wall above that is on the cover of Elliott Smith's Figure 8 album. On the last day we went to the strike in front of Paramount Studios on Monday and took a few clock photos there.
Early March, 2007 - Honolulu, State #50
