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Restoring the Lost Sense –
May 11, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
May 7, 2020 |
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We belatedly discovered an artist's statement for our haunted grandfather clock in which the clock face has been pulled to the back of the cabinet:
"To make any real sense of our place in the cosmos and, more importantly still, to change that place, we must be open to genuine transcendence and the abolition of time through its conversion into space" (Jeffrey J. Kripal, footnote to Philip K. Dick's Exegesis).
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"If time stops, this is what takes place, these changes. Not frozen-ness, but revelation."
Every clock in Boca Raton, Florida, reflects a temporal anomaly. We found nine clock faces in the city, no single one of which showed the correct time. Four clocks on one tower agreed with each other, though they were all fifteen minutes off. The other clocks we spotted were in disagreement with one another as well as being incorrect. "To learn what’s going on in Boca Raton takes time" (Jason Pelish, Boca Raton News), and therein lies the irony.
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This May Surprise You –
May 5, 2020 |
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We restored a grandfather clock that possesses a ghostly feature. Thanks to Grumpy Andrew, of Grumpy Andrew's House of Horror, who said, " Wonderful! Oh that was a balm for my soul." Meanwhile, to whatever pathetic soul thumbed-down our video, we'd ask to see what grand illusion you built from scratch this week, but —oh, that's right! — you didn't. But you made us feel even more fabulous, so — lest we disappoint you — the thumbs-down didn't discourage at all but rather set us apart from you! Thanks for social-distancing! We feel safer now.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
April 17, 2020 |
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Temporal Anomalies –
April 13, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Frostproof, Florida. The Citizens Bank clock displays four faces with three different times. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the problem at a glance. Painted on one side of the building is a trompe l'oeil door, recalling Egyptian tombs' false doors to the afterlife (doors "as permeable as fog," in chambers "where nothing purports to be real, where everything stands for something else. ... Even in this timeless scene, change is visible"*). Indeed, the false door has manifested timelessness through the visible adjustments of the clock faces. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for whose souls have passed through the false door or received offerings through it?
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Temporal Anomalies –
April 7, 2020 |
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It's simultaneously 12:20 and 12:07 in this temporal anomaly at the University of Guelph, documented by David Allan Barker. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 26, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clock in the bedroom of our historic farmhouse lodging displays a frozen time. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we saw the source of the problem instantly. Placed right next to the clock is an empty antique birdcage. That relic is the cause of the clock's inoperability. An empty cage traditionally symbolizes that something in one's life has escaped; we've all heard that "time flies," and so QED. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for has an old clock in a nearby farmhouse now gained time? By the way, that slip of paper in the corner of our photo is from a fortune cookie that a stranger gifted me after the Ghost concert we attended (ticket and earplugs also pictured). The fortune reads, "Do what is right, not what you should." (And yes, apparently we do take and eat candy from strangers.)
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