Today’s #FriFotos theme is about Clocks and/or Time. The first clock picture I felt the need to include had to include is the vintage clock from an old train station in the Netherlands which I bought at an antique store in Auckland, New Zealand. Now hangs in my back yard in Los Angeles, California. The clock pictured below has been 3/4 of the way around the world.
Antique Dutch Train Station Clock
Other clock images aren’t so literal. Some travel experiences take you to back in time. Visiting the mid-century modern lobby of Tokyo’s Hotel Okura makes you feel like you’re in a James Bond film. Indeed, part of You Only Live Twice was shot there.
The round bed I had in my room at the W Soeul could only be described as shagedelic made me think I was in an Austin Powers flick stuck in a very glamorous version of the ’60s. It was cool, but I could not figure out how they made that bed. And I got really twisted up in the sheets.
W Soeul Shagedelic bed
I live in L.A., and my street is often used as a location for Hollywoos film & television shoots. For three weeks back in 2010 there were amazing period cars parked between the hybrids in 2010 when )then little known French director Michel Hazanavicius set up camp in the neighborhood to shoot a silent film in black & white. The talk amongst the crew (and neighborhood) was that the project was either crazy or genius and would win a ton of Oscars. That project was called The Artist, and it went on to win seven Academy Awards. I took these pictures while walking my dog one morning on the set.
Of all my time-related photos the ones I like the most are from spending New Year’s Eve 2011 in Sydney, Australia at a party on the roof of the Park Hyatt Sydney. Seeing the Sydney Opera House lit up by fireworks and the Sydney Harboor Bridge turned into a giant clock counting down to the new year was the first (and only) time New Year’s Eve lived up to the hype.
The contemporary clocks (devoid of hands) that hang on the wall at the British Airways SLOW lounge at Jo’Burg’s Tambo airport. I think they were meant to be relaxing but they made me anxious. My pictures from my trip to Pyongyang, North Korea feel like they are from another time (if not dimension). I particularly liked this image of the chandelier filled subway station.
Slow Lounge at Jo’Burg’s Tambo Airport. The handsfree clocks made me feel like I was at Franz Kafka International Airport
Another time or dimension: the subway in Pyongyang, North Korea