{"id":358,"date":"2024-06-04T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/?p=358"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:19:52","slug":"now-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Now Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile autoplay-video\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video src=\"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Now-Now-Nathan-Gates-2024_web_video.webm\" autoplay loop muted playsinline><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Title:<\/strong> Now Now<br><strong>Year:<\/strong> 2024<br><strong>Dims:<\/strong> 250 x 50 mm<br><strong>Medium:<\/strong> Modded Quartz Clock<br><strong>Elevator Pitch:<\/strong> A clock modifed to subjectively track the passing of time. It&#8217;s never wrong, and sometimes right.<br><br>I added a custom controller into the clock mechanism to change how fast it moves it second hand, making the clock its own enemy. <br>Here is timelapse of the clock constantly trying to keep the correct time, speeding up when its behind and slowing down when its ahead of the actual time.<br><br>Comes in Black or White.<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here is a real-time snippet of the clocks internal struggle (with audio)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Now-Now-Nathan-Gates-2024-Ticking_web_video.webm\"><\/video><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Now NowYear: 2024Dims: 250 x 50 mmMedium: Modded Quartz ClockElevator Pitch: A clock modifed to subjectively track the passing of time. It&#8217;s never wrong, and sometimes right. I added a custom controller into the clock mechanism to change how fast it moves it second hand, making the clock its own enemy. Here is timelapse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[23,25,26,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,42],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-available-work","category-projects","tag-absurdity","tag-art-and-engineering","tag-art-and-technology","tag-contemporary-art","tag-critical-design","tag-device-art","tag-digital-art","tag-failure","tag-interactive-art","tag-interdisciplinary-art","tag-materiality","tag-nathan-gates","tag-new-media-art","tag-post-digital-art","tag-product-design","tag-south-african-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathangates.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}