#corpus clock

[moonywalker]

• C O R P U S C L O C K

The weird grasshopper-like creature (lovingly nicknamed ‘Hopsie’ by the local students), is actually a ‘chronophage’ which means a ‘time-eater’. It is constantly eating away at our time. The  inscription at the bottom reads:

“The world will end, and all it’s lust thereof.”

[priciated]

Cambridge, very smart and too many royal level conflict.

Rich people at every age seemed to love “giving back” by education, but I know it’s just to produce more ++++top top level worker for them and pay them with more tax.

Cambridge students seem to be too focused at school to use tinder. Didn’t see many bars or club around as well.

DNA double helix scandal is real and very serious.

Nice museums with lots of Nobel prize winner’s work.

AstraZeneca lab is gigantic.

[whiteshadows]

[amyuki]

非常酷的聖體鐘，很喜歡。

“聖體鍾（Corpus Clock）是一個大型的雕塑時鐘，在英國劍橋大學基督聖體學院泰勒圖書館外面的街道上，位於本篤街與特蘭平頓街路口，正對國王街。它是由約翰·C·泰勒構思和資助。2008年9月19日，劍橋大學物理學家斯蒂芬·霍金為其揭幕”

[silverspleen]

So I did the Chronophage off the Corpus Clock at Cambridge for inktober today, and remembered that I had actually dawn it earlier. Not just earlier... 

TEN. YEARS. AGO.

The top picture is a WIP from 2008 I had planned on coloring back in the day. I believe I got about half done digitally.

The bottom picture was just drawn today for inktober. 

It’s amazing how things change, but stay the same.

[pomegranatepithos]

Chronophage

in time, the ripples decline

this devouring. a tilt to the wind,

across the lilting pond. dance,

step—but do not stay,

meander on golden ways.

escapement is so much friction.

gears be spindled—a diction

of seconds and eons,

passing two hundred years.

[tealin]

Fun times on King’s Parade

[springviking-blog]

Week 8 - Close-ups of Cambridge

[parislemon]

Creepin.

[nikonf2s]

Cambridge In The Shadow Of The Locust Clock.

No, I haven't been drinking and the title is part riddle.  The locust clock (above) - real name 'Corpus Clock' is a a very strange and accurate clock that has taken 5 years to build - it tells the EXACT time every 5 minutes. Here it is situated in the window of the Taylor Library (named after the clock inventor) on the corner of the Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University.

Cambridge, England.   February 2014.

Nikon D300 17-55 f2.8G   Shot at 17mm f7.1 1/200th sec

[travlingrabbit]

[guiltyjoe]

http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-us/the-corpus-clock/

[traveling-ailee]

Some cool sights in Cambridge: the Cavendish Laboratory, where Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA; the Mathematical Bridge, which is made entirely of straight pieces of wood; and the Corpus Clock, which was unveiled by Stephen Hawking. 

[hally-abroad]

How cool is this?? If you're interested, you should look up a better photo of the creature on top of the clock. It's awesome.

[emilygoesuk-blog]

The Corpus Clock 

Multi-millionaire inventor and Cambridge alum John Taylor commissioned the clock and had it displayed on the corner of the Corpus Christi library as a condition for his funding of the construction. Corpus Christi is one of the colleges at Cambridge, founded in 1352.

History quiz: what had just started a couple years before in Europe and was killing about a hundred million people?

If you just guessed Doctor Who, then no. Sorry. What's wrong with you? 

The college was founded in response to the Black Plague and served almost as a stock of priests who were dropping like flies at the time (they also served as doctors and were also giving last rites to those on their deathbed, hence their exposure). Ironic, considering the corpus clock is one big metaphor for carpe diem because you gonna die someday.

Seriously.

The large, pure gold clock (made from carefully controlled explosive methods that had to be done in a secret military lab in Holland...yeah, really) shows the time through slits of blue light- the inner ring is hours, the middle ring minutes, the outer ring seconds. It's a very big and complexly built structure that isn't really true to time (it has to keep readjusting since it sometimes pauses or runs fast... allegedly intentionally). 

So why is the clock totally creepy and badass?

The clock (and thus time)  is being pulled along by a large, gruesome, mechanical bug on top called a Chronophage (literally 'time eater' from the Greek 'chronos' and 'phago'). It's a bug that is eating time, symbolizing how each second that passes can never be retrieved and is gone forever. The creepy bug (occasionally blinking in a very eerie way and it walks along) munches away, turning the clock with a very unnerving grinding noise. 

Seeing the blink is absolutely unnerving.

And as if that isn't enough, there aren't bells that ring on each hour. Instead, behind and hidden from view, chains fall down and rattle against a wooden coffin. The grinding of the chains falling and then the dull thump can be heard slightly in the video toward the end: five times for five o'clock. 

Without knowing the story, the clock looks like an ugly creepy art piece. Without knowing what's actually happening, the 'chime' on the hour seems boring. 

But when you get the backstory, it's awesomely terrifying. Or at least I think so. It freaked me out but in a good way. 

Asked on if he will help make another one, Steven Hawking responded "only time will tell." Oh Steven. 

[reckless-wild-youth-6-blog]

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