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.
December 31st, 2006 - Alamogordo, New Mexico
The former Alamogordo city landfill!
Cora, Bonzi and I are back from the road trip to Little Rock, Arkansas. One highlight of the trip (well, for me at least, and I stress the "me" part) was a visit to the old landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
At this point, .002% of you find this exciting, the other 99.998% of you think I'm a nutter and that Cora is the most patient girl on Earth.
Although the photograph only shows weeds, the humanclock cardboard, and a lonely tire; what you don't see are the 10 to 20 tractor-trailer loads of Atari games buried in the ground below.
Flashback to about 1981, I was in the third grade and had an Atari 2600. It ruled. A few years later I somewhat remember my Uncle telling me that if I wanted more games for it, he read something about Atari dumping a bunch of games in the New Mexico desert, maybe I could go dig them up. I was eight years old and could not drive. I got a Tandy 100SX Computer a few years later, no more Atari. Time went on.
I got back into Atari games during the mid 1990's and remembered the urban legend of the buried games. I could not locate any details on the games other than they "were buried in concrete in the New Mexico desert." I told my filmmaker friend Jeff that this would make a good non-fiction Indiana Jones-ish sort of film. We both forgot about it and life continued on.
Now that the Internet has matured a bit and more people have taken the time to research odd little things like this, the story of Atari games in the New Mexico desert is actually true after all. Back in 1983, Atari took several tractor-trailer loads worth of cartridges and dumped them at the city landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The "goods" were crushed and had concrete poured overtop of them. You can read the whole story here (overview) and here (very detailed). A band named Wintergreen even picked up the ball and used the whole saga as the subject of a music video.
Cora and I drove in circles a couple times until we found the landfill. The landfill is basically a huge field behind a bunch of strip-mall businesses on the edge of town. I told Cora I'd be gone a few minutes and she made me rephrase it to "I'll come back at some point." I wandered around the ravines until I found an area that looked somewhat like the area in the newspaper photograph. (from the links above). I took a few photos/clock photos and did my best to "take it in".
I told my Father about the dump adventure a few days later, his only response was "Hmm, you still remember how to hitchhike don't you? It sounds like you are going to be forced to do it soon."
December 31st, 2006
Hey, photo updates coming soon. Cora, Bonzi, and I are in Artesia, NM right now. I'm looking for a shovel so when we get to Alamogordo I can dig up all those Atari games in the landfill (might be busy for awhile). Have a good New Year!
November 19, 2006 - SE Portland, Oregon
When all else fails, go for dogs and skateboards. This weekend I had to come up with a photo for a charity book project. I tried various intentionally arty/pretentious things but those weren't working out.
There is a guy in my neighborhood who flies down my street on his skateboard while being towed by his dog. He has the dog leash in one hand and a six pack of cheap beer in the other. It is so cute you want to cry.
Instead of the beer, I took the humanclock cardboard and had Bonzi give me a tow. Bonzi would grab the leash with his mouth and start pulling on me. Cora snapped photos while we would head straight for her, nearly knocking her over a couple times. After about 2 gigs of photos, we ended up with some good photos and a tired dog.
August 2003 - at Burning Man in Nevada, USA
Came across this photo the other day when looking for something else. This was right after I got back from Australia. My friend Kevin and I biked from Oregon to Burning Man in western Nevada, that was quite a time. One of my best memories was when we were biking though the Nevada desert at night. The stars were out and it was warm. Every 30 minutes a car would pass us and give a honk of approval. At one point Kevin said "Man, I wish one of these cars would stop and give us a beer." About 30 seconds later a converted school bus (not hippie, a blinging-decked-out one) passed us. The brake lights come on and the bus rolls to a stop. A guy gets out and says "HEY! You guys want a beer?" After food/drinks, we ended up biking until about 3am and slept off the side of the road.
In the present time (October 25, 2006), the site should be running at full speed again. The servers have been a bit overloaded lately and such.
October 17th, 2006 - Portland, Oregon
And then by lucky chance I saw in a special magazine that Andy Summers was going to be at Powell's bookstore. Cora thought the book would make a good Christmas present for her mom (uh, hello Anne!). When Cora got the book signed she asked Andy to write the time in the book and I got a photo of that. Later after most of the people had left I gave Andy a card and told him about why we had wanted the time in the book. Media Woman Halle was standing nearby and had seen this site. I ended up taking a photo of her and Andy together.
And if that wasn't enough, yesterday my friends Karen and MCQ took a clock photo with Georgia, the drummer from Yo La Tengo (check her out getting checked out at 2:09m):
In other news I've spent the last week moving this entire site to new servers. I have most of the issues worked out except for one, which explains why the images load a bit slow during rush hour (eg when people are viewing this site at work). This should hopefully be fixed pretty soon.
September 2006 - Washington DC USA
Hanging out at George's house.
September 2006 - New York City New York City, NY
Nice Girl Cora and Drummer Guy Colin in front of the building that is the cover of Led Zeppelin's album Physical Graffiti. This is also where the Rolling Stones' "Waiting on a Friend" video was filmed.
August 26th, 2006
Going to New York City next month to take heaps of clock photos. That is my garage in the background that I was scraping/painting all last month, when I should have probably been fixing bugs on this website instead.
August 15th, 2006
"Webserver's on fire... better throw it in the water." - The nerdy Brian Eno
The server is going to be slow the next few days. Humanclock.com was on Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites of 2006 list. Maybe I should stop painting my house and actually get back to working on the 8,200 things I have to do to this site.
Desolation Peak, WA 8/3/2006
Jack Kerouac spent a couple months here in 1956 as a fire lookout.
I got a chunk of the backed up clock photos into the site, the rest will go in soon. I was gone all last week kayaking with my Dad at Ross Lake. (cue Harry Chapin music).
July 20th, 2006
Yet again I'm behind on submissions. I've been painting the garage all week cause I'm having a 500 day housewarming party next week. I will get them in after I get back from a wedding on the coast. (note to US Weekly: not mine)
FoHo District of Portland, Oregon 6/24/2006
So like, as this British bloke David Jones would say something about "five years" on his famous album about some guy name Ziggy Stardust.....the clock site celebrated it's fifth (yes, five) year anniversary on June 16th. yay. Oh, that is Sir Bonzi Wells and Cora of "Orange Cora" (the color you have grown (known?) to love) above.
June 2nd, 2006 - Pickerington, Ohio
Cub Scout Pack 1147
May 1st, 2006 - Fargo, North Dakota
Every once in awhile something comes along that looks like it might have been a bit of a logistical nightmare to coordinate. There are a few other photos like this, but I think this one breaks the record for the most amount of people in it. Hats off to Fargo South High School. There are even more people in this photo than my entire high school class. (Ugh, it has been awhile for me: Camaros, "cassette tapes", and Skid Row just aren't cool anymore)
Kris Kristofferson was in town this week, playing a solo-acoustic show at the really intimate Aladdin Theater. The theater is famous for apparrently holding the world record for the most consecutive showings of the 1972 adult film Mark Felt. (not the real title, read your history kiddies and the last sentence will be funny).
We had been in line since around 5:30pm. Karen and my girlfriend Christeena had marked off a section of "their" sidewalk with duct tape. I think we were the youngest people there. Around 6:45pm, Karen and I walked behind the theater to put our bags into her car. I mentioned to Karen about how I was losing my touch, since I had no clock making tools with me. As we are walking back, an older SUV drives towards us. Looking at the SUV straight on I can see the profile of Kris Kristofferson in the passenger seat. Karen goes to the left, I walk to the right of the SUV as it passes between us. I look at Karen, she looks at me and says:
"It's him"
"I know", I reply. Karen runs to the back of the theater and I'm already running down the sidewalk in front. Christeena is talking to some people in the line with her back to me. Not wanting to make a big announcement, I grab her by the arm and start running. She spun around and saw it was only me trying to abduct her from the line, so that could only mean one thing. We got to the back of the theater just as Kris was getting out of the SUV. I simply took photographs while the three girls acted like a gaggle of teenagers waiting outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1964 to meet The Beatles.
Kris said he was in a hurry but would sign Karen's record and pose for a couple photos. We went back to our spot in line. After seeing the above photo on my camera, all the women around us in the line starting acting like a gaggle of teenagers waiting outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1964 to meet The Beatles.
The show was quite memorable. Karen has this thing where she hands a cheap plastic pinwheel flower to people at concerts. She has a nice collection of photos with Beck, Willie Nelson, Bono, Janet Weiss, ?uestlove, and David Byrne. She had written "Pilgrim 33" on the flower and put it on the stage. Kris was plugged in and such and couldn't walk over to pick it up, but during the intermission somone came out and picked up the flower. During the second set Kris started playing "The Pilgrim; Chapter 33". The girls got all excited (Ibid, Beatles Analogy). Near the end of the song Kris looked at Karen and said "I read your flower". He said something else but I couldn't hear it. (Ibid, Beatles Analogy).
So no clock photo for me, but we all had some good memories from that night.
January 20th, 2006
No longer will you have to put up with the standards of another culture!
It took me nearly five years to spend nearly five hours of my time on the website, but humanclock.com now supports a 24 hour clock format!
Americans can stop complaining that they don't know what time "16:14" represents, and Europeans can stop complaining that they don't like "4:14pm". Now our nations can live in harmonious isolation again.
Now you can have the option to show photos in 12 hour format, 24 hour format (when available), or both formats. There is a new option on the clock page for changing your time format, you should be able to figure it out.
12 hour format - Things really don't follow any sort of logic and you can get confused. If someone tells you to "meet you at twelve", you have no idea if they meant 12 midnight or 12 noon. How many hours are between 2:00am and 9pm? You have to stop and think. On the upside for computer programmers, dealing with this complicated time format means more billable hours!
24 hour format - Other than the simple fact that you can take 21:00 and subtract 2:00 from it and quickly know the answer to the question in the last paragraph, by far the biggest advantage to this time format is that you can finally break out that Rush 2112 album out of the closet and send me a clock photo.
December First, 2005
I added a new page to the site titled "The Ruby Show". Those of you who have been paying attention to humanclock.com instead of yourpayingjob.com probably noticed the little "story" that appears around 2:45pm. I made up a page and the three contributors all wrote details about creating the story. Thanks again to Camille, Leanne, and John.
Submissions are mostly caught up. There are still about 30 that I can't put in since they won't fit right or they were taken in an Austrian town with a naughty name, to which I don't have my "office filter" implemented yet.
I also discoved I'd "misplaced" about 200 master copies of submissions from early 2004. Couldn't find them in my backups or anywhere. Found them sitting amongst a clutter of files on a server in the boonies. Lesson here is to leave a lot of files around and not delete anything.
The photo of the Golden Gate Bridge is from a regular contributor to this site. Going across that bridge has always been some sort of weird life checkpoint thing for me:
In 1982, I rode across it in the back of a metallic brown 1973 Ford Pinto station wagon* with my parents and sister. My biggest goal in life was acquiring more Atari 2600 games and being confused by the concept of "penmanship".
In 1995, I walked across the bridge and hitchiked north up the California coast. That year sucked.
In 1997, I rode my bike across it on the way to Mexico. I had just quit a scary office job in Portland, so I got on my bike and rode away from it and stopped two months later. Plus I was going back to college to meet girls a few months later, so life was changing.
I'll go take clock photos there next year.
If I mention that I ate raisin bran for breakfast and I went to a new coffeeshop at 48th & Hawthorne this morning, this will start to sound like a blog, so I'll stop now.
(*) Caught fire in 1987, right in front of my high school when my mom picked me up.
November 6th, 2005 - Astoria, Oregon
In front of the house where they filmed The Goonies. In addition to catching up on all the submissions, I'm in obvious need of a haircut too. Nov 14th, 2005
I'm almost done with my code rewrite and will be able to get submissions into the site soon. This also includes all of those photos that won't fit into the site because they need to be cropped. Thanks for being patient.
Nov 22nd, 2005
Ok, I feel like I'm having to make excuses as to why my homework isn't done. I have a couple days off this week so I'm going to get the 300(!) submissions I have piled up into the site...plus I have a special page to add to the site too. Thanks for being patient!
July 24th, 2005
From the department of it-never-hurts-to-ask...
Yesterday The Knitters played free show (!) out in Forest Grove, Oregon. At one point Greg (see below) brought up how cool it was to be sitting in the grass with friends, watching the Knitters play 30 feet away on a nice summer day. These things along with a plate of overcooked tater tots made the moment complete for me.
One of the best shows I've ever seen was X at La Luna in 1998. I never got a chance to seem them play as The Knitters before, so this was a special treat. They played a great show. Afterwards I went up to John Doe (musician/actor/Winona Ryder hugger) and asked him for a clock photo. He chuckled a bit when he saw the photo book I carry around and said "sure". Although I had the big cardboard sign with me, I opted for a handwritten one instead:
So afterwards a bunch of people end up at a BBQ down the road. Greg comes and grabs me: "You gotta see this! Bring your camera!" Inside the house was an original concert poster for the Replacements' ignominious* July 3rd, 1987 show in Portland. Tim Hanlon's comic strip below best describes this show:
click to enlarge...
(note: This originally appeared in Willamette Week but it is unreadable, so this is why I reproduced it above).
*This is my attempt at setting a new trend. I was originally going to put the word "infamous" here, but much like the word "virtuoso" is overused to describe the the guitar gawd Yngwie J. Malmsteen**, "infamous" is a bit overused to describe The Replacements.
**This example is provided for the sake of argument, it should not be assumed that I actually own any Yngwie albums.
July 19th, 2005
Behind as usual in getting clock photos into the site. Thanks for submissions. Funniest thing of no relation to this website happened last night. I woke up at 3:30am to the sound of a tricked out white Honda civic cruising around my neighborhood. It kept circling around mysteriously. Music was emanating from the car at an earth-shattering volume. The music? It was the thumping beats of DJ Bruce Springsteen's incredible 1982 acoustic album Nebraska, recorded on a cheap 4 track in his bedroom in New Jersey.
July 14th, 2005
Two of the girls from the Australian band Royalchord stayed at my house last weekend. I met them when I was in Melbourne a couple years ago. Me and part of my record collection made it onto their photo page. They are playing tonight in Chicago. Go see them! Take them veggie hamburger patties.
July 8th, 2005 Kevin Newhomeowner Condron visits Mills End Park.
I have lived in Portland for nine years now and learned something new today. This morning John in Minnesota emailed me asking if I had been to the smallest park in the world, located in downtown Portland. I hadn't been there, so after work (and a few beers) Kevin and I decided to "go to the park". So we stood there in the middle of the street near a couple of discarded, um, balloons...and took photos.
June 26th, 2005
Ok, so we went to Newport, Oregon this weekend. My friend Jen was graduating from Naturopathic school and had a big party. She also decided to announce that in addition to graduating from school, she was getting married to my buddy Chris. The next day MCQ, Julie, Bryan, Kevin and I went to the beach. I couldn't sit still and started making this gigantic clock time in the sand. Julie, Bryan and I all ended up making a huge "2:34" on the beach (and also had an intense hourlong fling with Ms. Carpal Tunnel unbeknownst to us). Awhile later we had this nice clock time on the beach. Heads were turning. I have some great video from this that I hope to get online someday. The photo itself was pretty random. Julie and Bryan are making up the colon, Kevin is on the phone to his brother Mike in Whitefish, Montana, and MCQ is hungover facedown on the beach in the lower left corner of the photo.
June 16th, 2005 in the FoHo* district of Portland
* FoHo is a new term coined by Zac C. trying to make the Foster-Holgate area sound a bit more trendy and become overpriced like the rest of Portland.
June something-th, 2005
I'll get clock photo submissions in this weekend. I bought a house a few days back and am in the process of moving my stuff. The new house has a garage so I can start taking analog clock photos again and replace the ones that I took four years ago.
May 18th, 2005
Been way busy lately so getting clock photos into the site has taken me longer. For your history lesson today, Mt. St. Helens erupted 25 years ago, and I remember 15 years ago when I was dishwashing at the Red Robin ($4.00/hr!) in Yakima, WA telling everyone that it was 10 years ago that the mountain erupted.
I'm auctioning off an original piece of the humanclock.com cardboard again. The original buyer thought my auction was somehow related to a popular gaming console. Whatever.
May 4th, 2005
Went to a birthday party of my friend Bill last night. We ate fondue. We made a clock photo with the fondue:
May 6th, 2005
I'll be putting in clock photos later this weekend, thanks for being patient!
April 29th, 2005
I've been a bit busy lately so it is taking me a few extra days to get clock photos in. I also have been poking around the message boards seeing about the supposed relation between this site and one to promote the new Microsoft game thingy. People keep looking for clues within the written text of this website, some of which I wrote during a XXXX beer fueled ramage when I was in Australia three years ago. So no, you are looking for clues in all the wrong places.
April 13th, 2005
This website has been around since 2001 in case you were wondering. It wasn't built last week.
Also, I still don't have any clues. All this talk of clues makes me think of my favorite member of the Go Go's who played a singing telegram girl in a movie once. Sweet Jane indeed.
April 12th, 2005
Clues, Clues, I have no clues. I have no clues as to why you ended up here. I would like to make up clues, such as you will find answers by listening to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album, but that would be downright mean, so I'm staying out of it.
April 4th, 2005
The piece of the clock cardboard up for auction now comes in a nice little display collage. The cardboard is in a plastic container attached to the mirror, along with photos of people holding up the cardboard over the years. The new photos are down hear the bottom of the auction. Also included is a card explaining what it is, written with the same cruddy handwriting that graces the fonts on this website.
April 3rd, 2005
Ok, April Fools is over. Some were fooled, some were not. I took a few clock pictures on Friday night of random people in Portland, I hope to get those into the site pretty soon. Remember your Hüsker Dü reference today, "Somewhere in April Time we add another hour..."
March 26rd, 2005
The clock site will be down Sunday night due to the server being moved a whopping 1.8 miles. At least this time the server is getting moved by a car rather than being strapped to the back of my bicycle and shipped on a train as "Scrap Parts - No Declared Value".
March 7th, 2005
Hey, if you want to see a photo of me tied up to a shopping cart with four other people, sprinting in a drunken frenzy down the waterfront in Portland, look at the living section of today's (Monday) Oregonian. On Saturday some friends and I did the Portland Urban Iditarod. I'm in the yellow t-shirt holidng a camera (of course). There is also a photo of our team sprinting to the finish line. I took a bunch of clock pictures at the event that I'll get online soon.
March 3rd, 2005
Ok, I never usually link out to big giant websites, but Richard Buckner of 8:14pm fame has a song in a Volkswagen commercial titled "Picture". I'm kind of glad he was able to cash in for once, plus gain a bigger audience.
February 22nd, 2005
Greetings from my cheap hostel room located, as Bruce says, "down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop". Canada has been good the last week. I've heard a lot of Crash Test Dummies lately, probably the last time I heard this much was when I worked at the record store in Bellingham, WA in 1994.
I spent a good chunk of today walking around Vancouver taking pictures of the clock. I'm a bit rusty on my humanclock-people-skills. In case anyone needs some large furnace filters, there are about 10 in this box located on the southbound 99A near BC Place stadium. It looks like they literally fell off a truck:
February 17th, 2005
I'm up at Whistler in BC/Canada right now, online via a neighbour's open wireless connection. More clock pics coming soon. I'll be in Vancouver, BC next week, let me know if you want to walk around and take clock pictures of people in the city.
Also, the clock site is going to be on a radio show soon, which means that the site won't be accessible due to the server being overloaded. This always happens when I go out of town..heh.
February 1st, 2005
Three years ago right now I was on a plane to Australia to start the big adventure of 2002-2003. Keeping with this reflection theme, I also learned last night what the difference between being 24 years old and 31 years old is; at age 24 I would spend an hour to make an ethernet cable, at age 31 I can't be bothered with it.
January 23rd, 2005
History was made today, the first clock picture featuring the art of unicycle jousting was submitted.
January 21st, 2005
The server has been pretty busy the last week or so, so the clock pictures are taking a little while to load. I'll try and get the bugs out of my "javascript preloader" this weekend so the clock pictures will be already loaded into your browser when the minute changes.
Happy New Year!
Had a fun night, took a few clock pictures....
At Karen and Joe's NYE party:
Kevin catching up on the current music scene from 20 years ago...
I barely remember taking this, but this is the friendly door guy at Holocene on SE Morrison:
November 22nd, 2004
One of the most creative photos I've received in the last three years. From Nanaimo, BC in Canada....
November 3rd, 2004
Oh well, whatever, nevermind....
November 2nd, 2004 Attention US residents: Remember to vote today!
Attention Non-US residents: Cross your fingers!
October 31st, 2004
Went and saw the movie Dig! tonight, Greg (from the entry below) is in it.
Went to a couple halloween parties in Portland over the weekend. Funny thing, I was at this party on Friday and met this girl at the chips and salsa area of the table who I happened to have taken a clock picture of three years ago.
October 28th, 2004
Greg Shaw passed away last week. I still can't believe he is gone. Some of you know him as the guy holding the cardboard sign at 11:48 am, others know him as the guy who had a major influence on rock and roll, others cite him as somone who coined the term "punk rock".
I was fortunate enough to spend some time with Greg and his wife Phoebe during the summer of 2003. We talked music, we talked about crazy ideas for the clock site. I had a good time. Thanks for the memories Mr. Shaw.
October 6th, 2004
Ok, finally after like nearly six months I changed the photos in the submissions gallery. Really! I have some friends living in Santiago, Chile right now. The air there is very smoggy and yucky (yes this is the dirt and crud from the air). Maybe the clean air act isn't such an evil thing, George.
September 21st, 2004
Ok, I have all the clock pictures in that I've taken up here in Alaska. That is Charlie holding the humanclock.com sign in Blackstone Bay. We spent three days kayaking and camping in this place named Blackstone Bay. I was later told that the final scene in the movie 50 First Dates was filmed here with the same glacier in the background, only it was Dreamy Drew and Mr. Sandler's body doubles on the boat. I have a short little movie that goes with above photo, but that won't be online till I get back to Portland next week. Here are some other clock pictures from the trip:
George with his "new old" shirt
Ben with ice all around him
Huckleberry fun
Cindy
Dave and Wendy
Charlie
September 19th, 2004
I thought I was bad with publishing typos, but it looks like the big heavies do it too. I try and shy away from advertisement or product placement on this site, but I will advertise boo boos. It even has a time in it as an extra bonus.
September 12th, 2004
Greetings from the middle of nowhere in Alaska, I am on a slow cell connection right now, so I won't have recent submissions put into the clock site until September 18th.
August 29th, 2004
ok, clock site is running again. The site has been on and offline for the past three weeks. Hopefully the issue was a bad hard disk. I've been really busy with Actual Paying Work (tm) and got behind with the clock site.
You can submit photos again too. If you have photos to send, I suggest you get them submitted by Wednesday (Sept. 1st) or so, since I'm going to United State #49 on Friday to see my Aunt and Uncle, plus George and Mike.
August 16th, 2004
Hey! The server has been having physical (and probably emotional) issues for the last week. I am hoping to get the matter resoved sometime this week. I haven't been putting submissions into the clock because of this. The hard disk is dying and I have to move the site to another server. All will be well soon....
-Craig
August 16th, 2004
The server is sick, see the message at the top.
July 11th, 2004
I changed the clock so as the minutes click onwward, the location bar in your browser also "displays" the correct time. I thought of this a couple years ago when I was biking in Australia and finally got around to it, now there is only about 1,233 other things to do to the clock site now...
I've had this photo for awhile but couldn't fit it into the site, so I'm putting it here. Thanks to Rabb and Speecher for the photo:
June 28th, 2004
Went and rode a mechanical bull for the first time in my life a couple nights ago. I wasn't holding a clock time...too busy trying to hold on to the "bull"! I ended up staying on long a lot longer than I thought. Thanks to MCQ for the photo:
June 18th, 2004
Clock site is going to be featured on the front of the living section in the upcoming Sunday edition of The Oregonian. I think they are using that photo of me with the bra fence in New Zealand. (here is a link to the story)
June of 11, 2004
You can all thank humanclock.com watcher Fletcher for getting on my case about dusting off some old php code that allows you to change the clock background color. I thought it would be funny to make the background color pink and then charge people $1.00 to change it, but that is probably more trouble than it is worth. Anyway, at the bottom of the control panel under the clock you will now see a link to the color changer page, complete with a few new additional colors added to the original 2001 lineup. (think Dizzy Reed in Guns and Roses or Jim O'Rourke in Sonic Youth)
June 8th, 2004
Venus passed in front of the sun today, and Torsten Schoeneberg from Dortmund, Germany turned the whole event into a clock photo!
June 7th, 2004
Went and saw Mission of Burma last night. Since I'm not a music journalist and just a computer programmer with about 12 adjectives in my vocabulary, I'll just say that the show was really, really, neat. It made me remember why I like music so much.
When I was riding my bicycle around the Australian continent in 2002-2003, many days and nights were spent listening to MOB's The Horrible Truth About Burma album. It was nice to hear that live album one degree of separation closer with the band right in front of me.
Clint Conley
Roger Miller
May 16th, 2004
I never was really into the group Rusted Root, but please buy my cursed t-shirt!
April 5th, 2004
Ok, back online again! I threw money at the problem and it went away...at least for now. This is also a historical point for the clock site, because this is the first time the clock site is running on a server that isn't a 500 mhz Pentium II-class with 384 megs of ram.
If you have sent in a clock photo in the last couple of weeks, I hope to have them put into the site within the next couple of days.
Kurdt died 10 years ago...
April 1st, 2004
Ever seen that footage of the Beatles' car getting mobbed by fans? Ever tried getting into a house party that Nirvana was playing at in 1990 in Olympia, WA? Ever stood next to the cheesecake at a food buffet on the Spirit of Tasmania? Anyway, my point is that the clock site got a bit mobbed this morning. I woke up to find that the clock site got shut down. It seems the clock got to strut its stuff on a radio show recently. More fame!
So I moved it to a new server.... The url you might see above is just temporary.
March 11th, 2004
If you have one of those magical Talking Pictures boxes and one of those cable/satellite things that pick up 12,321,543 different channels, the clock site is going to be featured on TechTV's "Call for Help" show.
July 4th, 2002 - Rockhampton, Queensland - Australia
Clock site is on TV soon, so this an attempt at being funny. My friend Duncan took this photo, he's the guy holding up the belt sander in the "politically correct 4th place" area on the old Vegemite Sandwich Giveaway page.
March 10th, 2004
If you live in Portland, Oregon...there is an interview with me in the most recent issue of Barfly Magazine. That was actually quite a fun interview, Ink Mover Jen Lane kept buying me drinks and Nice Guy Keith (tm) took photos of me. I even took a few photos myself:
February 25th, 2004
I discovered last week that Tim Hardin is buried in a rural cemetery in the small town of Turner, Oregon. Johnny Cash, Robert Plant, Nico, Bobby Darin, and Rod Stewart are a few people who have covered his songs. His music is worth seeking out if you get a chance.
So we went on a mini-road trip...
February 20th, 2004
In the words of former Bloomington, Indiana resident David Lee Roth, "Ahhh, WOW MAN!"
One of the first submissions I've received from Poland, how creative! I'm told it took them two hours to make this clock photo. Thanks to Ola, Pawel, and Bartek.
February 12th, 2004
Merry Valentines Day from Sparta, Wisconsin:
January 30th, 2004
The famous piece of cardboard on this site needs some more friends on friendster.com. Do a user search on the email address "cardboard@humanclock.com" and request friendship with the cardboard!
January 28th, 2004
Economy mode is over for the digital clock, no more smaller clock images! The site has recently became popular in Germany so I had to move the clock images to a second server. More changes and stuff to come to the news page. I received some really excellent clock photos from Kenya and India that I want to put up here on the news page, but I'm a bit buried with Actual Paying Work (tm), so those will have to wait awhile.
December 23rd, 2003
Thanks to Kirk in PDX for sending me this photo of Kevin and I at Burning Man this year:
December 9th, 2003
Later today or tomorrow I'll get the timezone button panel going again for the trove of non-javascript users. Please let me know if you find any problems with the site.
December 8th, 2003
Welcome to Version III of humanclock.com! This version still doesn't have everything in it that I had planned, such as a 24 hour format clock...but I figured I'd better put online what I had done so far. I still need to go though and purge many of the photos that have unreadable times or that aren't up to par anymore. Let me know if you have any problems...I've tested this site a bunch on all different kinds of browsers, but there are still likely to be some issues here and there with things I didn't know about or forgot to fix. Oh, the "other locations" thing on the clock page, you can only look at 2-3 images per timeslot, this is done intentionally.
Much more to come in the next few months!
December 4th, 2003
Ok, version 3.0 of humanclock.com is like way totally almost ready, I'm just ironing out a few wrinkles right now. I need to test some the timezone detection code to see if it works on most/all browsers with javascript. So if you get a couple of extra seconds to rub together, go to the test page. If the time on your computer is correct, but the time displayed is off by over a half hour, please email me with what kind of operating system and browser you are using...otherwise just ignore it and go about your normal humanclock.com business.
On another note, if you want to make a bunch of new friends on friendster.com, you can be friends with the famous humanclock.com cardboard. Just search for cardboard@humanclock.com
November 5th, 2003
This picture I took the morning after Halloween. You can tell it was a good party when you can write a time in the kitchen floor with a wet sponge:
October 30th, 2003
If you want to be on the clock site, I'll be at Critical Mass tommorow for the Halloween bike ride in Portland, Oregon, USA. Look for Axl Rose with a boombox on the back of an orange bike blaring Rocket Queen and other G & R hits.
October 25th, 2003
Clock an hour off? Then you can change it by following one of the buttons below. With the current version of the site I can't adjust for Daylight Savings Time automatically. Contrary to popular knowledge, Daylight Savings Time is no where near standard thoughout the world, countries, or even within some US states (Indiana). This is why the site cannot adjust for the DST switch autmomatically. The new version of the website I've built fixes this problem...but it isn't online yet. It is getting closer, I've been working on it solid for the last two weeks...even leaving the house a few times!
October 22nd, 2003
Are you on friendster.com? Be friends with the famous humanclock cardboard. Search for the email of cardboard@humanclock.com.
October 21st, 2003
I've been working a bunch on the new clock site, things are getting closer. Went past my old house in SE Portland to get my Apple ][e out of the basement. This is the one I used to build the cute little icons on this site. I tied it to the back of my bike with a phone cord. I rode past Stumptown Coffee on 34th and Belmont and a cute girl looked at me. I thought I was pretty cool until I remembered I had this Apple ][e on the back of the bike. Then again, it isn't every day you see a General Lee Orange bike with an Apple ][e on it.
10 FLASH
20 PRINT "Loser!"
30 GOTO 20
40 END
September 28th, 2003
Ugh, I woke up the other morning feeling like a bad Warrant b-side. Had fun last night at Joe's birthday party. At some point it seemed like a good idea to recreate the Abbey Road album cover on SE 20th, except the annoying cars kept messing things up.
September 22nd, 2003
Hello Italy. Looks like I'm going to need to get another webserver if this keeps up.
September 15th, 2003
The famous piece of cardboard on this site needs some friends on friendster.com. Do a user search on the email address "cardboard@humanclock.com" and request friendship with the cardboard. (8/16/03 - Hmm, it is a day later and already the cardboard has more friends than I do. That is sad...)
September 14th, 2003
4,900 pictures and this site STILL doesn't really have any sex or drugs, but at least I'm working on the rock & roll portion. Tonight I went and saw The Weakerthans and got half the band to pose for a clock photo. (Ok kiddies, math problem solving time, how many people are in the band? answer: four)
It was a great show and they are nice guys, go see them if they come to your town. (unless you live in Uganda, I don't think they tour there...at least not yet)
Before rock and roll...
After rock and roll...
September 12th, 2003
One morning in Yakima, Washington when I was six; I walked four blocks down to 16th avenue and saw Johnny Cash go by me in a parade. My mom took a picture.
One afternoon in the Australian outback when I was 29; I was riding my bike around the continent. A metallic-brown Holden pickup pulled up next to me and stopped. "Signs made here" was printed on the side of the canopy. The guy asked if I wanted something cool to drink as he handed me a two liter bottle of a popular soft drink. I stood there on the side of the road, the cold soft drink burning my throat. "Folsom Prison Blues" was playing on a tinny-sounding tape player inside the pickup. I glanced into the truck and saw a worn (obviously truckstop issue) cassette of "Johnny Cash: The Best", sitting on the dashboard. I looked back at the guy and he just said, "Yeah, that's some JC playin' in there....and I don't mean Jesus Christ either."
Johnny Cash - Yakima, Washington September 29th, 1979 at the corner of 16th & MacLaren.
September 4th, 2003
Sometime soon I'll have a link to some of my pictures from Burning Man. The photo below is of humanclock viewers Red Girl Meg from Melbourne, Australia and Niles from San Francisco, USA. Funny thing about this picture: I go out onto the playa to take a clock picture of a friend, and then Meg comes up to me and asks if I am from the humanclock site. She introduces herself and it turns out we had talked a couple times on email when I was biking around her country last/this year. Then about a minute later another guy named Niles comes up and introduces himself to me. Niles has even sent in clock photo submissions too! So I figured I'd get a clock picture of the both of them. Notice this is a new cardboard sign....I was too paranoid about losing the original one I've been dragging around for two point five years, so I made up a new one.
August 18th, 2003
George came to Portland today!
My first clock picture from a major protest
It was a $2000.00 a plate lunch. This house had a lot better offer, but you didn't get to hear George move words around the room.
August 15th, 2003
The new site will have to wait another month, so you'all'll have to put up with this somewhat crusti site a bit longer. Kevin and I are biking from Portland, OR to Burning Man in the Nevada desert. It should make for some unique clock pictures. We are leaving on August 22nd and will be back in early September.
August 5th, 2003
The site was down the last couple of days, weird DNS issues or something. Everything should be ok now. Well, wait...access still seems spotty for some people. I gotta go get another roll of duct tape and tape the DNS back together, then maybe things will work better..
July 26th, 2003 bike trip is officially over, now I find myself on a Saturday afternoon in the
basement of my parent's house,
listening to my old Skid Row CDs from high school. Who would have thought I would have ended up like this?
The photo above (of Sara!) was taken while I was in LA last week. She was driving me around LA one night and pointed out that particular public bathroom. If you try to visit humanclock.com and forget to type in the 12th letter of the alphabet, you can see other photos from that place. (That particular site has been up as long as the clock site has, little halos for all of you who didn't know about it).
Anyway, after leaving the park we drove down Sunset Blvd. I saw three Non-"A"-list actors in 10 minutes (well, Zooey Deschanel will always be on the "A"-list to my heart). We went to the Standard for drinks. Sara put on a brave face and posed with the clock by the pool. Everyone was trying to figure out what in the heck we were doing, but LA being LA, everyone acted like they didn't care. It was kind of like high school all over again.
My friend Kevin tells me we are biking to Burning Man next month...it should make for some good clock photos.
July 13th, 2003
I leave the bottom hemisphere on the 15th, spend a couple days with friends in LA, then arrive back home in Portland, Oregon on the afternoon of July 17th. Still can't believe the trip is basically over. Sniff.
July 2nd, 2003
I turn 30 today. The clock site celebrates it's second birthday in a couple weeks. If Hermann Hesse were still alive, he'd be 126 years old.
March 17th, 2003
I rolled into Melbourne on March 12th, thus completing my circling of Australia on my bicycle. About 430 clock pictures in 12,602 miles; shoudda taken more! I'm heading to New Zealand at the end of the month to meet up with MCQ. I would have posted this sooner but I've been kinda busy the last few days. Saw Richard Buckner twice. I think Richard brings my Americans in Australia count up to 23 now. I met back up with Grubby and we went to a party with me ending up asleep in the van outside (not from getting drunk, it was from getting old). grubby.org and me
March 16th, 2003
Cuverville Island, Antarctica
First Clock Picture with "non-cooperative-for-clock-purposes" Gentoo penguins and icebergs. Thanks Ken!
March Second, 2003
On the home stretch to Melbourne now! I'm leaving Adelaide today. I've been staying with Jens From Germany Who I Met in Sydney. Even got a few clock pictures last night at Supamild. Jens forced me to say I had a good time here.
Jens doing that German industrial Einstuerzende Neubauten destruction sorta thing
February 10th, 2003
I just crossed the Nullabor and should be getting the pile of submissions put into the clock site withing the next week or so. There hasn't been much net access across the bottom of Australia. They did have it at the Western/South Australia border, but it was $24.00 an hour there!
January 25th, 2003
I've been on the road for about three weeks after a good time off in Perth. Leaving Esperance today, no more towns for 1,400km!
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
. The new house has a garage so I can start taking analog clock photos again and replace the ones that I took four years ago.
October 21st, 2003
