Making Time
Philip Andelman’s meditation on the manufacturing process of the hourglass. Designed by Marc Newson’s for Ikepod, it is made from borosilicate glass and filled with millions of stainless steel “nanoballs”. Adnelman filmed this at the Glaskeller factory in Basel, Switzerland and the entire process is fascinating — a hypnotic sequence of whirling machinery and fire set to Philip Glass’s “Opening”. It’s so fascinating, in fact, that I almost wish there was some exposition if only to explain just how they measure out the aforementioned nanoballs so that each glass accurately metes out its allotted dosage of time.
Via Bioephemera : Brainiac
May 19th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Beautiful work.
May 20th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
that was lovely…thank you
May 20th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
I think that they probably just eyeball it and then add or subtract nanoballs if it takes too long or not long enough.
May 21st, 2011 at 3:29 pm
This is incredibly (unexpectedly) lovely. Thanks, Ross!
May 29th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Fantastic little film. Totally reminds me of Bert Haanstra’s Glas, which is also beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLS7–ZLCoI