Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew …
Quote for Today: Katja Michael
I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning …
Quote for Today: Alan Watts
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is, in other words, no such thing as time in the natural world – the world of stars and …
Quote for Today: Susanna Clarke
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked …
Land of Heat and Clockwork: Art inspired by a Web Comic
You may or may not be familiar with Homestuck, a popular web comic by Andrew Hussie available at MS Paint Adventures. At first conceived as an interactive experience, it is now …
The Absent Clock: Stephen King’s and Stanley Kubrick’s Versions of The Shining
The Shining contains themes of abuse, addiction, insanity and manipulative evil. What actually makes this story tick in the imagination? I grew up watching horror movies on my father’s knee. …
The Creative Clock: Parallels Between Artists and Parents
Is your creative clock ticking? Learn to listen and adapt to its messages without becoming fearful and completely stressed out. We often hear of the biological clock. Women, or, less …
Quote for Today: Paul Cézanne
Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint… We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate… give the image of what …
Restoring History: The Clock Tower of The Qishla of Baghdad
The Qishla, or fortress, of Baghdad was built by the Ottoman Empire in 1855 as a headquarters for their troops in the region. The tower contains one of the oldest …
Quote for Today: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that …