Saturday, January 31, 2009

Rolex Makes Official Time Sand?

Rolex Timesand (Image courtesy 1/6 (artmarcovici)
By Andrew Liszewski

I guess it makes sense that if an hourglass were to have any chance of accurately providing some measure of time, the sand would have to be of a uniform size, consistency and texture. And if any company on Earth were qualified to produce a sand used for timekeeping, it would be Rolex. A single bag of Time Sand flowing through a standard hourglass is the equivalent of 30 days, and the pallets and pallets of sand you see below represent a generous estimation of an average human lifespan. (81 years)

Rolex Timesand (Image courtesy 1/6 (artmarcovici)

The pallets of Rolex Time Sand were part of an art installation created by Michael Marcovici who’s also known for an installation where he stacked 10 million $100 US bills on 12 pallets to visually represent what $1,000,000,000 looks like.

[ 1/6 (artmarcovici) - Rolex Time Sand ] VIA [ bookofjoe ]


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  • I will just stick with my Walmart brand Time Sand
  • Yeah, but then you end up with pebbles, cigarette butts and blasting caps mixed in there.
  • mil
    where do I buy this?
  • Nathan
    Who stole the sand??
    Is it me, or is the artist ripping everyone off? He claims that there are 81 years worth (972 bags), firstly he is working on a 30-day month, so actually there is only 79.8 years, but wait . . theres more. It looks to me that there are 8 bags per lay, 6 layers per pallet, 18 pallets, that only 864 bags of sand, which is only 71 years worth of sand!!
  • Pieter
    Nathan.... get a life would you.....
  • Nathan
    Thanks Pieter, I can only imagine how happy the world would [not] be if we were all as negative as you!
  • Martin
    I noticed that too, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that he was trying to short us 10 years
  • Mullet Man
    Good, I need something to fuel my time circuits after the nuclear reacter went out. Trust me I had only done this once before...
  • stangzilla
    u also forgot the fact that the month of Feb. is even shorter. i think he was using the same formula when he stacked the $100 bills so he could pocket a bunch of dough!!!
  • how its made!
  • AngelicDirt
    Well, this is the most useless product in the world. 9_9;;;
  • Blowjobdeeplongtime
    Slowly sucking..
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