Contest: ENTER Misc Avatar Contest: Time on our Hands

[Avro Arrow]

So, somebody (who will remain nameless ) said there would be a new avatar contest up on the weekend. Well, the weekend came and went, and no contest. Sometimes there just doesn't seem to be enough time, you know? And of course time has been on our minds recently, since most of us have had to adjust our clocks back to Standard time sometime within the past few weeks.

So the theme for our contest this time is clocks, watches, and other devices for measuring the passage of time. There are many different styles and designs of timepieces out there, so let's see them!

Our usual rules are in effect: No media images, and entries should be a maximum size of 200 x 200 pixels and 1 MB.

The contest will be open for about a week, so make sure you get your entry in before you run out of time! Have fun!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I assume no media rules out Dali, so I will give this some thought.

 

[DimesDan]

Nice idea for a thread.

I took this photo way back in the summer of 2004 of the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster in London:

 

[Owain Taggart]

I've thought about using Spider clock, but nah... won't be that cruel I'll have to think of something else.

 

[think]

 

[auntiehill]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

 

[tharpdevenport]

People don't want to wake up. They press the snooze and go back to sleep. So, a few years ago a guy invented an alarm clock on wheels that once you've pressed the snooze, it drives away and forces you to get out of bed to hit the snooze again. An evil genius invention.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ There's probably a drone version in the works.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Okay, here we go:

The clock tower at the Old South Meeting House, where the Boston Tea Party was organized (the real one, of course, in 1773).

 

[think]

no one asked 16 what ? was remaining? which is just fine... since I only was waiting for someone to say something like is it ...
16 minutes (yes 16 minutes left on the dryer...) or
16 hours till tomorrow or
16 days remaining till the end of the world.. or
16 years remaining before we settle Venus as well as Mars or
16 more cosmic turns of the galaxy before our sun fizzes out ... or
or is 16 the time when we will remain? in our bed before the next snooze alert?

hehe but thank goodness no one asked 16 what was remaining... cause I don't know? I just don't know?

 

[tharpdevenport]

^^ There's probably a drone version in the works.

Even better if you have a cat, 'cause then the cat will be jumping on you and running across you to get the drone. It's both a cat toy and an alarm clock!

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

A strontium-ion optical clock housed at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK. Probably hard to fit around your wrist.

Edit: i missunderstood the media thing..
I'l delete this image...

Editagain: but then i went back to the future and undeleted it!
So here it is.....was...are

 

[think]

A strontium-ion optical clock housed at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK. Probably hard to fit around your wrist.

wow very cool - yep are we allowing media or did you photo this image ? cause I don't stand a chance with my half baked photographing... of things... but this is still way super.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

yep are we allowing media or did you photo this image ?

Ah... THATS what the no-media ment... I rally thought it was a no-no towards using cgi/cartoon animations/paintings etc... So only photos of real things! Not that i had to take the picture my self. SORRY!! Its NOT my picture!!!

 

[auntiehill]

wow very cool - yep are we allowing media or did you photo this image ? cause I don't stand a chance with my half baked photographing... of things... but this is still way super.

No media means no images from movies, tv, comics, and so forth. There's nothing wrong with getting a picture from a news source, Google, or anything like that. No one expects you to go and take photos yourself, for God's sake.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Except when it comes to pumpkins.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Ah... THATS what the no-media ment... I rally thought it was a no-no towards using cgi/cartoon animations/paintings etc... So only photos of real things! Not that i had to take the picture my self. SORRY!! Its NOT my picture!!!

No worries, your entry was fine. Please feel free to repost it.

 

[think]

Just because I have 100,000 photos in no way means I would just work from them although for a while that’s what I thought would think

 

[RJDiogenes]

Except when it comes to pumpkins.