Wanna be famous for a minute? Tired of seeing nothing but photos that I've taken in Portland, Oregon? Then send in a photo!

Here is a list of all the digital timeslots and how many photos occupy each minute.

I am trying to get a decent cross section of Earth inhabitants on this website. So I want photos of minivan-driving soccer moms, trustafarian hippies, punkers, football players, pimps, players, private eyes, Commodore 64 programmers, Who's the Boss? fan fiction writers, bible-belt preachers, politicians, actors, musicians, auto mechanics, doctors, catergorically defined people who don't feel they belong in a category, tree-huggers, rednecks, snooty rich people, snooty poor people, pictures from famous places, pictures of famous people, people who can solve a Rubick's cube, jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, plumbers, D & D players, etc.




The very important oppressive-dictator-sounding rules:

• There needs to be a time in the photo!
• Take photos outdoors! This isn't a requirement, but your photo will have a better chance at making it in if it was taken outdoors. Indoor photos start to look the same after awhile.
• The photo cannot be altered after you take it. This means that the time HAS to be within the actual photo, not added later with an image editor or paint program. This also includes using your image editor to add phrases overtop of the clock photo such as "Heavy Metal Rules Man!" or "Time for Bed..."
• No web URL's or blatant attempts at product multi-national product promotion in the photo. By "blatant attempt" I mean that your photo looks more like it belongs in commercials, the evening news, movies, or above a public bathroom urinal.
• Photos must be at least 1024x768 in size and in JPEG format. You can also submit vertical photos, just be sure to rotate it to the correct position.
• You do not need to crop your photos, I will take care of that. Send them in as high resolution as possible. It is actually better if you don't crop the photos since it gives me more to work with.
• Photos in popular timeslots might get replaced/deactivated as need be if I need that timeslot for a special reason. (4:20, 11:11, rock stars, etc)
• The photo does NOT have to be taken at the exact time it represents, but the time shown in the photograph should fit the surroundings in the photograph. If you are taking a photo and it is daylight outside, then you should be holding up a time which would occur in daylight. Try and make the theme fit also, so don't send in photos of a bunch of drunk friends at a bar holding up 7:30am. (well..unless it is happy hour at the bar for the workers next door who just got off the graveyard shift)
• No webcam photos, the quality isn't good.

The high-school guidance counselor sounding rules:

• Take photos outdoors if possible! Keep in mind that people viewing the site are most likely indoors and are supposed to be working. Encourage their daydreaming and hampered productivity!
• It helps if you have the time written fairly large to the point where the "time" takes up a decent amount of the picture. The numbers don't necessarily have to be huge, just "bold" enough to be readable when the picture is reduced down to 150 pixels wide.
• use a digital camera, this way you can tell if your clock picture turned out or not. (the sun has a bad habit of bleaching out clock numbers if you hold up a sign in bright sunlight).
• Be creative. Typing up a time in a large font on your computer screen and taking a picture has been done 1,000 times already and I reject most of them now. You don't necessarily have to do something goofy in the photo. Some of the best clock photos on this site are ones with random things in the background such as a scrap metal bin, a guy working on his car, or somebody grubbing down on some chili.

The San Francisco Power Lawyer-sounding stuff:

• All photos become property of humanclock.com.
• You will not be financially compensated now or anytime in the future for your submission. But you will however, get the satisfaction of a job well done and thousands of people seeing your photo.
• Please do not submit any copyrighted photos.

Specific humancalendar submissions:

• Submit a photo for any date you want, multiple photos for a given date will be shown at random.
• Calendar photos will just be shown on the front of the site for now, but will be moved to humancalendar.com later this summer when I get that site finished (it has been on the back burner for a long while now...slowly moving to the front one).

"Unacceptable" photos:

These are not even clock photos! The first photo has no time in it. To this day I still receive photos with no time in them. With the second photo, the time has been added long after the photo was taken. (currently 14 years). Yes, this is me with the Camaro I owned in high school. (Winger cassettes not pictured). Cat Schwartz of Tech TV fame called my Camaro "hot". Ah, redemption. Although I sold the camaro in 1993, somehow the snow tires managed to stay in my parent's pasture for the next 12 years, complete with "Americana" weeds growing though them. When I bought my house in 2005, Dad told me to move them to my new backyard, where they now sit awaiting weeds to grow though them.

I no longer have this Camaro, but the snow tires are still in my parent's backyard, now with three foot high weeds growing though them. (how Americana!)

"Overly-submitted" photos:
Although the examples below are technically clock photos, they have been done so many times already that I no longer put them into the site. Creative and unique photos keep humanclock.com interesting, redundant photos make it start to feel like a visit to a generic strip mall. It's not that the photos are boring, it is just that everyone else has had the same idea already.

Ahh, the house address. Many people have them!

The clock radio. Note: Sagacious humanclock.com viewers will spot the cassette deck used for making the Tandy Model 100 Webserver.

License Plate (or number plate as Europeans and Australians call them)

Some people would find this cool, others would find it boring, the main point is that the "time" is REALLY hard to read.

Photos of existing clocks with nothing else in the photo.

Keep in mind that a large majority of the people watching humanclock.com during the day are people stuck inside a building, sitting in front of a computer. Show them the outside world! You'd be amazed at the cool photos you can take if you leave your comfy computer chair. Webcam photos I don't accept just because the quality is rarely good.

These types of photos have been submitted many, many, many times and if I put them in people start writing me saying that the photos are getting boring. These examples aren't limited to just paper and VCRs, this also includes microwaves and post-it notes!

"When bad clock photos become good":
Give people something to look at!

A Dull photo Unless your name is Andy Warhol or Yoko Ono, people would call this photo "dross" or "boring". (If you were Andy or Yoko, then it would be described as an "enigmatically seminal statement reflecting the equation of the moment within a perpendicular universe")

...becomes a much gooder one! By standing back a bit to capture more elements within the photo, such as a note to roommates and a nice medical student named Gonzo, the photo becomes a bit more interesting.