Do You Know What Time It Is?
So, for my birthday (in November, in case you were wondering) The Hubby took me to Boston. We stayed downtown and had dinner with his boss and his wife. The next day, he actually (mostly) took the day off from work and we had the entire city of Boston to choose from. So – what to do, what to do? So many choices, such cold weather. Well, it really wasn’t too bad (thanks, global warming!) but still, it was a cloudy and windy so not an ideal day to trek across Boston by foot or duck boat. So, I picked a museum.
Now, The Hubby is not terribly fond of museums. They are just not his first choice in the entertainment arena. But, he’ll occasionally do them. But of course, I had forgotten that just two weeks before, he was down in Houston for a work event and they held a private event at the Houston Museum of National History. So, now he was being subjected to a second museum within a months’ time. What a guy, huh?
The big reason I picked the museum was for one exhibit and one exhibit only. Sure, I like walking around and looking at old art, new art, weird art, and what the f*ck art on the occasional basis, but that was NOT the attraction for me in this case. I had read about an interesting artistic endeavor a few months back, and thought, damn, I’d love to see that, but I probably never will. But guess where it was? Yup, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
It’s called The Clock. An artist took film and tv clips and wove together a 24 hour (yes, a full day) “movie.” Each clip specifically (or sometimes just generically) references a point in time that is in the scene – usually by showing the time or having the time referenced in dialogue. And each point in time corresponds to the ACTUAL time that it is, right then while you are watching it. So, if you go at 8 am you might see the scene in Back to the Future where Marty is arriving at Doc’s house before school. Or if you go at noon, you might see a clip from High Noon.
We sat there for an hour or so. I could have stayed all day. Only once in a while do they run the full 24 hours, but we missed the last “full” performance by 3 weeks. It was so cool. They had movies I knew, movies I had heard of, movies I had never heard of, foreign movies, some tv clips (ER – “time of death: 1:04 pm”), famous movies… well, you get the idea – they had it all.
So now The Hubby is noticing time when he watches movies and tv. But what does it say that I have always noticed the clock in the background?