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Maarten Baas' Maarten Baas Real Time Clock Schiphol

Posted by Caroline Williamson on 07/13/16 in Art, Furniture home Main

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Dutch designer Maarten Baas began his real-time series in 09 and continues develop smart new versions of it. Each edition of the series is a 12-hour movie that shows hands literally moving in real time. The last Schiphol clock is (more than three meters) massive clock that hangs from the ceiling in the living room 2 at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.

The latest iteration was inspired by the many faceless men who clean and work in blue overalls Airport. Beginning with an archetypal form of a clock, Baas creates the illusion of one of those men climbing a ladder and entered the door of the clock. With a red bucket and yellow cleaning cloth in his hand, the man erases the old minutes and creates new as time goes on throughout the day. Every minute is documented as he wipes his hand and then painted a new one. The clock display at the airport is made possible by a Baath video recorded more than 12 hours to display a hyper-realistic representation of time.

The busy airport sees over 12 million people throughout the year, which is why they have reached out to Baas to create one of his famous clocks as a way to replace other Dutch icons -. tulips, clogs and windmills