Short on time?

Seems like everybody is, these days. Luckily, we’ve found two websites to help. While they won’t exactly save you time (quite the opposite), they might help you keep track of it – in a pretty unique way, too.

• The World Clock Project bills itself as a community-powered timepiece, and we can see how that’d be true. They’re collecting photographs of clocks big-and-small from around the world, and hope to have a clock photograph showing the exact time for each minute of the day. We’re particularly lovin’ the global aspect of it – seeing the different clocks from all around the world is a bit of a cultural experience in and of itself.

• The Human Clock, meanwhile, takes the same idea – but in place of the clocks uses photographs of humans, all of whom are holding up some recognition of the time (usually scribbled in permanent marker on some cardboard or something basic like that.) With a photo for every 1,440 minute of the day, The Human Clock takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’ – and it’s fun to watch, to boot. (There’s also the Human Calendar, fyi.)

So there you have it – the next time you reach for your watch to check the time, make a detour and check out these two fun photo websites. You’ll get the down-low on the current time-of-day, and you might just get a smile staring back at you, too.

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