#Clock Face

[morsart]

I know you're alive.

[kunaigirl]

Ok as silly as this probably is, I feel really passionate about this one! It's a piece of fan art of Glockenspiel, also known as the "clock-face" on the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland, CA! I was re-reading one of my Art of Mary Blair books, and was reminded that the visual elements of the "It's a Small World" existed, and is nothing less than absolutely breathtaking. I got super inspired and looked more into it!

While the book went into a lot of details about the artworks, layouts, and construction process of the attractions interior, not a lot was discussed or shown about the exterior. The whole building itself is a massive piece of art, and the clock face on the center tower absolutely captured my attention! I wanted to learn more about it! (Also I'd love to see it in person one day!)

Even more, I wanted to draw him as his own character! He emits such a welcoming aura with a sense comfort, love, unity, and acceptance! I can't really put it into words, but it's absolutely there and it's a huge testament to Mary Blair's exceptional sense of design! This little drawing of mine is a love letter to Mary Blair and everything she's worked on. I wanted to incorporate as many elements of the building itself into the design, and make him out to be a sort of powerful and mythical guardian of time and unity.

Mary Blair, this one's for you!

(Photos that I used for design reference, HERE!)

[poligraf]

« The Clockmaker » by Ivan Kliun

[andallshallbewell]

[life-spire]

@ ejovs

[noh07]

24 hour clocks would be so much smarter

so, we all know a day (as in the earth turning around itself one time) takes 24 hours. but a clock face only has 12. I'm wondering why it does. even in countries where there's being used 24-hour time ("military time") — at least formally or when wanting to be exact, when just talking to someone rather informally we still often use the 12-hour time though — the clock still only has 12 hours depicted and you have to know whether it's morning or evening. that's so stupid.

may I present to you: a 24 hour clock — designed by me.

you read it like a normal clock: the thick lines are the hours, the short lines are minutes and seconds (marked red in the second picture). (The only difficulty is that the minute-/second-lines aren't on the long hour lines, but its not super hard: the first line after 24 is the first minute/second.

here, the time is 18:11:52. 18 hours, 11 [almost 12] minutes and 52 seconds. so 6:11pm, almost 6:12.

it would be so smart because you don't have to wonder about it being morning or evening and you don't have to say am or pm every time. And it's not even that much harder to learn. Why didn't we invent those instead of the 12 hours ones? And I can't be the first person to think that, can I?

[personostient]

‘Champagne Grande-Sonnerie’

“It’s your time well spent~!”

Since 16xx, The Verge

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[catluniscia]

Clockravine

The character is created by https://artfight.net/~Silverdiscord I liked to look of the clock head Also trying to do different backgrounds...keyword try  If you want to art fight me https://artfight.net/~Blackmoonrose13

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[theallseer97]

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« Cultura come fatto sociale » (Learning as a social matter) by William Girometti

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