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Word Clocks
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Word Clock
The time lit as a phrase in a grid of letters, across nine languages.
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Spoken
The time written as a spoken phrase, “quarter past three,” each word arriving as it changes.
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IPA
The spoken time written in the International Phonetic Alphabet, as it is actually said.
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IPA Grid
A grid of phonetic words lighting up the spoken time: the word clock, read in the IPA.
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About Time
The hands are short phrases radiating from the centre, turning to point at the real time.
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Settle
Scattered line strokes rotate and settle into place to spell the time in words.
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Five O'Clock
A world clock that finds a real place somewhere on Earth enjoying the five o'clock hour right now.
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Five O'Clock Horizon
The sun has reached a city somewhere on Earth, holding the five o'clock hour on a warm horizon.
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Five O'Clock Relay
Cities in the five o'clock hour orbit the center as the handoff moves west around the world.
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Salt Rim
The current five o'clock cities ring a tropical glass, pulsing around the minute.
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Sunset Somewhere
A sunset arc carries the cities currently sharing the after-work hour.
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Miami After Five
Neon city lights form a constellation of places where it is five in the afternoon.
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Meridian
The five o'clock line is drawn as 17:00, a hard meridian separating the day from the evening.
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Roll Call
Every city currently holding five o'clock gets its own line in a live global roster.
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Somewhere
A single city fills the screen with its current five o'clock minute.
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Five O'Clock Line
An amber meridian marks where the world is crossing five o'clock.
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Happy Hour
A city grid lights the places where five o'clock is happening now.
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Word Dial
An analog word dial telling the time in plain language, across many tongues.
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Syntax Tree
Spoken time becomes a live phrase-structure tree of noun, verb and prepositional phrases.
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Mobile
The spoken time hung as a Calder mobile, words swaying on balanced arms over the second hand.
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Flux
The spoken time drawn from thousands of streaming particles that dissolve and reform each minute.
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Corona
The time spelled in letters around a circle that turns once a minute; read the phrase as it passes the top.
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Curtain
A hanging cloth, pinned at the top and swaying on a breeze, with the time woven across it in words.
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Honeycomb
Glowing hexagons light up across a honeycomb to spell the hours, minutes and seconds, each digit blooming outward as it changes.
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Logogate
A word clock whose lit English phrase is the output of a glowing logic-gate network reading the binary time.
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Wordwheel
Three concentric word-rings turn to bring the hour, minute and second under a top pointer, cipher-lock style.
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Letterfall
The time in words drops away with ballistic physics at each minute while the next phrase rains in.
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Transit Map
The current spoken time follows a route through minute, relation, and hour stations.
Word Clocks: clocks that tell the time in language, by Luke Steuber