We’ve already introduced you to the CW&T?s studio [Reminder: WheelBarrow Tv Stand]. Today we are presenting you their other best-known project, which is entirely different from the TV stand – their Google Earth Clock.
It is basically a digital clock that builds the time by zooming in to places that look like digits. The display is constantly crafted from different buildings, rivers, bridges, streets or any other landscape features that resemble Arabic numerals when viewed from bird’s-eye view.
The designers explain that they’re making a lot of experimental time-related devices for fun, which they call art, but actually they’re just stuff they want. And they?re right. It?s okay to call the clock art, but in the respect that it has no real commercial venue to be sold. The clock is not a piece of art a collector can make their own. It is a web-based digital clock assembled from views of Earth from above that resemble numbers. Every half minute, the views jump to a new location showing a digit that may be a river or street in a foreign place, but when you zoom out, you begin to associate it with familiar landscapes, countries, and the distinct view of our planet.
Launch Google Earth Clock

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Google Earth Clock

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