There is something special about Old mechanical tech like Clocks. For me, its just the facination on how they work from such a simple method such as using the AC 60hz sinewave to time the clock. Simple and Elegant.
Today, most of our items are from China that we see in shops and storefronts. And non withstanding, some of them really are quite remarkable. This one bellow is only $45 bucks. But seems to lose some of its magical charm for me.
The clock is clearly a modern element.
And it just does not have that charm of an old device from the 50's or 60's.
There is something to be said about the way they made things back them. Kind of like a hidden aurora to them.
Arguably, Some of these devices are just more for show as most people today do not assoaciate time with nothing but a digital number, But sometimes someting new comes out.
Love this design. Sadly, I can't tell time this way. It makes no sense to me.
But I really do love the way it looks. It makes a nice peice to have around in the Den or home office. I do neither of that anymore, but I still do enjoy owning interesting conversation starters. Still. The mechanical parts are often an after thought. They don't have the viceral "Clink, Chonk, tick" of the old.
The eary silence of the new stuff makes me somewhat uneasy these days.
Enter the Art Decco period, and it seems often that the period of great style seems to be amis today.
Often I find it hard to belive some of these items even existed back in the 1930's. It has such a simplistic honest but timeless design. And yet today? Prouducts just don't seem to be made with the same kind of outlook to the future. They almost always seem like something if you lost? You would not bother trying to replace. Nor be bothered if it broke.
Even things that were made as inexpensive items for mass market just seemed to have a place in the history of design. Here is a cheap Alarm clock for the time that was indeed made as something you would simply think nothing off. Yet today? I would hardly call this a dispoable design.
I have a Hunch it might have been the Era. And the excitment of the times
There was a push to stand out and a fevor for the new that often just seems missing today from the industrial design of the past. This clock above made out of metal just seems to capture the essense of the space age. A time where anything was possible.
I often feel that when I go into a Store today, I don't seem to recall even being remotly excited about whats "New" there. It not like it was before where the items on Display store shelves seem to warrant a trip down the isles just to take a look. These days? I find that missing most of the time.
Its like everyone just forgot about good design. And simply put cost first with function and feel, a far second.
There does not seem to be very much push to change things as it seems that once the world became connected? There was little reason to inovate as much of the items that came before it had room to do so.
You could challenge the status quo so to speak of the past. Something that seems to dangerous to do today. So they don't even bother.
Every once in a while you run into something new that breaks the mold. But its a small run mostly made by Individuals on a limited prouduction basis.
You don't seem to find these in mass as you use to.
Either the push is gone? Or ? Most people have no use for these items, and simply disregaurd them as unneeded novelties
I'm kind of hoping that in the future, people get back to putting things like this in stores again. But I doubt that is going to happen anytime soon. At least not in America. Maybe Europe.
Thank you for listening.
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Today, most of our items are from China that we see in shops and storefronts. And non withstanding, some of them really are quite remarkable. This one bellow is only $45 bucks. But seems to lose some of its magical charm for me.
The clock is clearly a modern element.
And it just does not have that charm of an old device from the 50's or 60's.
There is something to be said about the way they made things back them. Kind of like a hidden aurora to them.
Arguably, Some of these devices are just more for show as most people today do not assoaciate time with nothing but a digital number, But sometimes someting new comes out.
But I really do love the way it looks. It makes a nice peice to have around in the Den or home office. I do neither of that anymore, but I still do enjoy owning interesting conversation starters. Still. The mechanical parts are often an after thought. They don't have the viceral "Clink, Chonk, tick" of the old.
The eary silence of the new stuff makes me somewhat uneasy these days.
Enter the Art Decco period, and it seems often that the period of great style seems to be amis today.
I have a Hunch it might have been the Era. And the excitment of the times
There was a push to stand out and a fevor for the new that often just seems missing today from the industrial design of the past. This clock above made out of metal just seems to capture the essense of the space age. A time where anything was possible.
I often feel that when I go into a Store today, I don't seem to recall even being remotly excited about whats "New" there. It not like it was before where the items on Display store shelves seem to warrant a trip down the isles just to take a look. These days? I find that missing most of the time.
Its like everyone just forgot about good design. And simply put cost first with function and feel, a far second.
There does not seem to be very much push to change things as it seems that once the world became connected? There was little reason to inovate as much of the items that came before it had room to do so.
You could challenge the status quo so to speak of the past. Something that seems to dangerous to do today. So they don't even bother.
Every once in a while you run into something new that breaks the mold. But its a small run mostly made by Individuals on a limited prouduction basis.
Either the push is gone? Or ? Most people have no use for these items, and simply disregaurd them as unneeded novelties
I'm kind of hoping that in the future, people get back to putting things like this in stores again. But I doubt that is going to happen anytime soon. At least not in America. Maybe Europe.
Thank you for listening.
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