Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
Raqs Media Collectivee-flux.com
master clock, connected devices
the time thats exists in between , only on my oven
Discovered my new fav metaphor for time in Richard Powers’ novel about trees, The Overstory 🌳
Future of time and
The sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.
Jill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
The timeline seems among the most inescapable metaphors we have. And yet, in its modern form, with a single axis and a regular, measured distribution of dates, it is a relatively recent invention. Understood in this strict sense, the timeline is not even 250 years old. How this could be possible, what alternatives existed before, and what competin
... See moreMaria Popova • Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
Where the two times meet, desperation. Where the two times go their separate ways, contentment. For, miraculously, a barrister, a nurse, a baker can make a world in either time, but not in both times. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
The Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
Put another way, who stands outside for hours, gazing at a starflower instead of a Samsung Galaxy? When you’re stalking a hawkweed at daybreak, time is an afterthought.
Five Minutes to Moonflower (Published 2015)
To underscore their modernity, filing cabinets were called ‘equipment,’ ‘appliances,’ and ‘machines’ — not furniture.