a Gallery of Calendar images from 4-day weeks up to 91-day quarters.
Tag: Earth
the Shadows of Time
Looking at our Year in terms of light and darkness has revealed a lot of the symmetry that underlies our days, and how we imagine them.
With a recent burst in creative energy, I started making this visual wheels of the year, where each day is shaded from 100% black (the Winter Solstice) through greyscale to 100% white (the Summer Solstice). Because the Winter Solstice takes place at opposite times of year depending on whether you’re in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, I’ve taken to making 2 of each image.
for more detail see: theAbysmal Calendar
Think Temporally, Act Locally
The Time and Space of the Here and Now.
We’ve laid out an imaginary grid over the Earth, which we measure in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Above marks one of the centres of North America, in the territory of Dakota, Lakota, Santee, and/or Yanktonai peoples.
In very rough terms, we use this coordinate system to pinpoint any given location on Earth (and along with elevation, in all three dimensions). Our place in this grid is also a guide as to how we experience time.
Continue reading Think Temporally, Act LocallyChinese Elementary Time
Scaling the Atomic Year
Ldecola tries it with the Gregorian year. How does it hold up against theAbysmal?
Defining Time
Our common experience, across the globe, over time.
Time is such a nebulous concept, in no small part because so many of us have so much stake in all of the ways it takes form in our lives: schedules, anniversaries, history, evolution, prediction, etc. It is embedded in our languages, and is inseparable from our thoughts of space.
50 Years of this Mind Bomb
December 24th, 1968, Apollo 8 sent this photo back to Earth.
Rethinking Time 