On Not Taking Every Minute of the Day for Granted

24 hours, 70 workers, 1,440 minutes and 1,611 digit changes, all filmed in real time.

The entire 24 hour performance of Standard Time is available for purchase to run as a clock on your computer, iPhone or iPad.

Will they really make every change in time?  There’s only one way to find out.

[Artwork by Mark Formanek realized by Datenstrudel at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum]

We’re Not Going To Take It and It Would Help If You Didn’t Either

It’s easy to do what everyone else is doing and eventually we might find out that’s been our only problem all along.  If you question how different daily life could be, witness what one artist and a 90 piece marching band were able to do in the city of Denver.

Now imagine what kind of show 7 billion people could be putting on if everyone wasn’t so busy taking it.

[from Lee Walton‘s Playing Apart] [See also: 7 of 27]

They Say the First is the Most Difficult to Make

John Baldessari‘s “The First $100,000 I Ever Made”, the first of three installations in the High Line Billboard art series.

Live and in person on 10th Avenue at West 18th St in Manhattan thru December 30th.

That’s Wilson on the bill, by the way.  …  … Woodrow Wilson.

[Photo by Bill Orcutt via Laughing Squid]