al4ie has re-launched his stopped clocks project; as he describes it:
This site is a hub for my thinking on stopped clocks, a place to aggregate images and locations of stopped clocks in the UK, as well as a focal point for people to collaborate in actually getting public clocks fixed. Please get in touch at:
alfie (at) stoppedclocks (dot)(com)
if you would like to chat about the project, or would like to collaborate/help in some way.
Alfie.
there is one slight problem though – all clocks are stopped clocks when presented in the form of a photograph. any photo of a stopped clock will therefore at best be hearsay. gosh, i should think about that one more, photography stopping time, fascinating, oh well… video would solve the issue. or timestamped photos taken at intervals.
Hi POP – thanks for covering 🙂
I do see your point on photography not necessarily capturing the fact of a clock being stopped, but there is a trust relationship in place in that all submissions to the moblog are by individuals who we know/are responsible for their submission, or in the case of those sending pics in to me at the site, at least I will have their contact details. I do intend to do fact/history checking as far as possible on each clock – bugger, Ill probably have to take a holiday off work just to do that 🙂