April 17, 2009
Cuckoo Clock Speech
Maybe this is why my beloved South Africa is so keen to show that we too aspire to brotherly love, peace and democracy…Watch the Third Man from 4:25 onwards. Think I should send Mr. Zuma a cuckoo clock for his office wall?
Happy voting cadres!
Herman
March 28, 2009
Donkerte
Tyd wil net nie stilstaan nie! Ek kan elke klok en horlosie se pendulum stop maar die planete hou aan met draai. Dis eintlik ‘n verligting om te weet dat ons nie ook vir tyd verantwoordelik is nie. Iewers sou iemand homself (ja, dit sou sekerlik maar een van my geslag gewees het) kon skuldig maak aan nalatigheid of misbruik in sy omgang met tyd. En dan was daar moeilikheid.
Vanaand om 20:30 gaan ons egter ons bes doen om die brieke aan te draai. Van Tafelberg tot Sydney gaan ons vir een uur dit “stadig vat”.
Maak jou reg, dis moeder aarde se uur!
Groete
Herman
March 18, 2009
“Too much, Too young?”
That is the question asked this morning in the Independent. The young prodigy in question is the 13 year old Faryl Smith. Maybe that is where we go off the tracks. She isn’t a prodigy. She is a young talented person living a few blocks from our Tick Tock Time offices here in Kettering.
Maybe we see in her what we wish for ourselves…
Godspeed Ms Smith! And thank you for singing at Twickenham – your voice wakes Lions!
Herman
March 10, 2009
Metal Heart Singing Bird
Binary opposites – Metal Heart.
See how breathtaking here and here.
Herman
Lyrics to Metal Heart by Cat Power
Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You’re losing the calling that you’ve been faking
And i’m not kidding
It’s damned if you don’t and it’s damned if you do
Be true ’cause they’ll lock you up in a sad sad zoo
Oh hidy hidy hidy what cha tryin to prove
By hidy hidy hiding you’re not worth a thing
Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed
And everything
And you will be in a very sad sad zoo.
I once was lost but now i’m found was blind
But now I see you
How selfish of you to believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming
Metal heart you’re not hiding
Metal heart you’re not worth a thing
Metal heart you’re not hiding
Metal heart you’re not worth a thing
February 26, 2009
Infuse
“Relationship” with Clocks and Music Boxes continued
But can something made of brass, aluminium and wood really accompany? If there is no consciousness there can be no awareness, no recognition and no accompaniment? Maybe we should rather speak of projected sentiment or symbols of status?
What would the alchemists say? Can’t we infuse matter with life? Place yourself in the shoes of the Reuge artisan standing at his work bench. Will we tell him that his energy is lost and wasted in thin air?
And Tinie our cabinet maker in the Holtzhausen workshop - isn’t his soul transported into that clock case when he spends 10 days bent over it?
Herman
February 20, 2009
Moment
Why a Bell?
The most exceptional clocks like the Holtzhausen Everest and many of the truly awe inspiring music boxes like the Reuge Roma and the Reuge Orient Express have clear striking bells.
It announces That Moment. It alerts us to Now, doesn’t it?
But is it just a passing strike, an announcement or is there an invitation to enter the “Power of Now”?
I hold that a bell alerts, invites and if one pays attention to the ring, draws the curtain aside to the inside.
Follow the bell as it’s ring fades
Herman
February 13, 2009
Purpose
To step back from the market place in order to reflect on the question: What is this?
My intention is for us to create mindful avenues of exploring and appreciating our field of interest: clocks, watches and music boxes.
Herman Holtzhausen
