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Rhizome.org: photoclock
What is worth photographing? A picnic, a fountain, a zoo, flying a model aircraft, caring for your baby, your sports team, a flower, falling over, a puppy, preparing lunch, going to a party, a walk in a forest, your car, your wedding, a day at the beach, an amazing building, a beautiful landscape, returning home from holiday
Photoclock is a web piece that gives you the world’s (or at least the web’s) answer to this question. Exploring ideas of memory, of time, of ritual, of cultural commonality, and the relationship of these ideas to Internet archiving, Photoclock shows, for each minute of the day, a set of photographs that were taken at that precise moment.
As you watch the computer screen, you discover what other people all over the world were doing at that exact time of day that they thought was worth photographing and uploading to the Internet. As the grid of 60 images is completed (one for each minute in each hour) the colours and the activities in the photos change slowly as morning turns to afternoon, afternoon to evening, and evening to night time.