Living Chronology

Two years ago Radiolab did a show all about time, (you can download mp3 and listen in your browser) and at about 19 minutes 30 seconds in there's a interview with Jay Griffiths, author of a book called A Sideways Look at Time. What she described stopped me in my tracks: spice clocks, natural bird clocks, a flower clock...

Since then, I've had my own fantasy of building my own natural clock, and I keep my ears open for stories and news about special clocks:

The living calender gathers together more than just hours and minutes into a giant, overpriced clock, Uniqlo has a flashy website called Uniqlock that seems to show the time in Paris and little else. You can buy a wooden knocking clock that knocks out time on your own vases, soil powered clocks, the perpetually self-winding mechanical clock, a cool three armed clock (video) and one of my favorites, the clock clock (video), which uses the hands of many clocks to spell out the time writ large.