Because I have no picture. I went on an Eichler home tour today and one of the houses had an amazing collection of George Nelson clocks. There was one that I'd never seen. I'm not sure if it was a Nelson. It didn't have the classic Nelson hands. The tour didn't allow pictures, so here's the best I can do: the face was round and flat, the clock was suspended from the ceiling by a string and had a long "tail" off the back of it. It was suspended by the tail. Pretty unique. I tried google images and couldn't find it. I know that's a poor description, but any ideas?
Since I can't find a picture of that clock, here's another great item I saw on the tour. Google images didn't fail me this time - it's a "Futura" mobile by Flensted.
This part doesn't make sense,...
This part doesn't make sense, at least not as far as I can tell:
"the clock was suspended from the ceiling by a string and had a long "tail" off the back of it. It was suspended by the tail"
Was it suspended by the string or by the tail? Something defined as a tail usually is attached near the bottom of something, which would make it hard to suspend something by it. It would then be upside down.
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This?
Alessi
?Ora? ECAL/Isaure Bouyssonie
http://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-treasure-trove-of-ideas/319921
Nice collection
of stuff, there, Rockland. But as a mobile-maker from childhood, the sight of the red clock makes me itch (Wright said bad architecture "made his teeth hurt") !
The placement of the hanging wire should be so much closer to the clock, for believable balance to occur. Is there (should there be) a concordance between actual physics and the appearance of "balance" ? Would anyone see it that way, even without practical experience ?
Telechron?
Is this it?
Your drawing immediately reminded me of it.
http://www.telechron.net/eod/8h27.htm
George Rickey
uses hidden weights to make many of his later pieces work; these stainless steel boxes would never balance on their hidden bearings without eccentric weights of some sort.
(I'd be prepared for the music on this video and turn the sound down -- or off !)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKsbxoLtveU&feature=fvwrel
SDR, I had the pleasure of meeting Rickey
at his studio/workshop near Chatham, NY back in the eighties. While I'm not a big fan of seeing big geometric chunks stainless steel glinting in an otherwise bucolic setting, some of the pieces he had installed on the property were simply mesmerizing. Some small ones he had hovering over the surface of a babbling brook were particularly nice, I remember thinking.
Rickey couldn't have been nicer. It's a relief, sometimes, when meeting an artist doesn't somehow diminish one's appreciation of their work.
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