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1. The Hourglass

10 months ago

Marc Newson's latest creation for Ikepod sees the Australian designer interpret the most iconic timepiece of all: The Hourglass. Director Philip Andelman traveled to Basel, Switzerland, to document the designer's modern take of the classic hourglass inside the Glaskeller factory. Each hand made hourglass comprises highly durable borosilicate glass and millions of stainless steel nanoballs, and is available in a 10 or 60 minute timer.

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Ben Holmen 10 months ago

How do they calibrate the hourglass? Can they control the diameter of the waist to a fine enough degree to use a fixed amount of sand or do they calibrate it by varying the amount of sand per hourglass?
Joe Williamsen 9 months ago

Just guessing here, but you'll notice they used a template to get the curvature and waist consistent - and then I'd guess again that they vary the amount of nanoballs to get the timing just right. If they are consistent in their manufacturing, the variance of fill would be insignificant. Thinking about this, you'd have to do this with a "sand" filled hourglass as well to compensate for the tiny differences in sand particle diameters - which is probably why they use stainless steel nanoballs :)
Matt Gorecki 10 months ago

What a gorgeous video.

Who wrote the music?
Nikki Moreaux 10 months ago

Philip Glass, Opening from Glassworks
omar zubair 9 months ago

There is a serious problem on vimeo of filmmakers not giving credit to the music...especially when, like with this video, the music is often the most sophisticated element of the video.
Charlie North 9 months ago

I totally agree with this comment. The music was so central to this excellent film, and got no credit! This is simply wrong and disrespectful to the musician. Don't get me wrong, the visuals were excellent, but they should have credited the music.
Philip Han 9 months ago

I knew this was Philip Glass and I expected to see it in the credits but alas! The second comment is already questioning this!

Both Omar and Charlie are correct, the music is literally an afterthought when it comes to the credits! Not just that, but there's no information on who even shot it!
lorbus 10 months ago

I have the same question as Ben Holmen. How?
Tim Danner 10 months ago

I got the impression from the video that they calibrate it by adjusting the amount of sand. You can see him start a stopwatch and let the sand run through before he seals up the top of the glass.

The music is "Opening" by Philip Glass. (nice pun)
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cyphunk 9 months ago

ikepod watch (not stop watch)
Gibran Malheiros 10 months ago

incredible handwork!
I could nearly say that I envy his passion for that...
Michael Chernoff 10 months ago

I've seen glass blowing videos before and they are always captivating
Florian Keller 10 months ago

Aweseome video, great music choice.
joeyjamms 10 months ago

Since it a commercial project are you licensing the music?
Lars Andersson 9 months ago

Brilliant video. You will have to be a perfectionist to make those hour glasses. Impressive.
Jason Smith 9 months ago

Wow. Amazing work with a lot of love put into these hourglasses.
Mike Kobal 9 months ago

fantastic!
Daniel Kim 9 months ago

Awesome! Love the flames.
MARZ 9 months ago

each grain of sand is one vimdeo, all adding up into the crescendo that is, ANTERNUTE!
Cesantes 9 months ago

B/W and that minimalistic cadence in the music brings all the fragile feeling you need to balance such a rational device. Lovely done!! thanks for sharing it!
jeffbeas4u 9 months ago

Lovely.
Charlie North 9 months ago

...and music by?
Shame they thought the music wasn't worth crediting and yet it played such a large part in the film.
Thrillpill Films 9 months ago

Hello, we've featured this beautiful video on our blog:
onesmallwindow.com/cool-internet-stuff/cool-internet-stuff-vol-18/

Great job. Was a really pleasure to watch it.
Greg Wood 9 months ago

Well done. It's quite a skill to make industrial processes seem entertaining. Some viewers may have read 'The Five 'C's of Cinematography. The author, Joseph Mascelli ASC was somewhat famous for creating a film called 'On Solder'
It inspired workers to perform better soldering - measurably improving equipment reliability and helping the US war effort. Good filmmaking.
Worawut Tham 9 months ago

I want one!
Really Love this Art piece...
Laurens Neels 9 months ago

That's awesome.
Richard Drouant 9 months ago

Great video. Does anyone know what song was used?
zelda 9 months ago

Beautiful!
luis prado 9 months ago

Nice!
Kalle Jaeck 9 months ago

great video & great music
bishwooby 9 months ago

Beautifully composed & shot. Love the allegory, i.e. using the wall clock, and the drops of sweat. I love the view from the window of his workshop. Kind of makes you wish you could be him for a day. Really, really nice! :)
Jeremy Sale 9 months ago

Wow. Beautiful.
Daniel Bass 9 months ago

Iazul, Maktub!
sAyOx 9 months ago

Nice! !!
Nico 9 months ago

Amazing, like inside the factory of discovery channel, !
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Vikramaditya Bagri 9 months ago

Very nicely done
tasneem 9 months ago

This is a good clip
Color Lounge - Cedric Riveau 9 months ago

A beauty!
Mercfoot 9 months ago

this could have some profound implications
Rob T 9 months ago

Wonderful piece of art, both music, video as well as subject. Reminds me of Bert Haanstra's 1958 short classic award winning film "Glass" (see on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=aLS7--ZLCoI )
Janet Bloem 9 months ago

Beautiful craftsmanship! Loved it.
Musser 9 months ago

A joyous work. Unpretentious. Informative. Celebrating the ability of the human hand.
Newport Shapwick 9 months ago

I am absolutely fascinated by watching glass worked. Craftsman of all kinds are a joy to watch, and this is no exception!
Daily best 9 months ago

Hey,

it's amazing! We wrote about this video on our blog:
dailybest.hu/hogy-keszul-a-homokora/
Diamond Eye 9 months ago

Sorry, can't follow everyone else here. Why black & white? Does it add something? For me, I wanted to see colours and contrast where the loss of colour in many of the scenes meant of loss of information for the viewer.
Great subject, well shot - but could have been better.
Kevin Griffin Moreno 4 months ago

Simply amazing videography, and a rather compelling advertisement.
Mattias Burling 4 months ago

Added to machines and crafts
vimeo.com/channels/251203
Simone Bissolati 3 months ago

Added to "Men at work" channel
vimeo.com/channels/248480
Constantinos Tseklenis 3 months ago

I love craftsmanship documentaries in general and this is one of the best i've seen ... Although i loved your black & white approach i am sure that glass produces interesting color conditions ... I wish i could see your color footage ... Bravo keep up the good work !!!
Patrick McLoad 2 months ago

Very nice.

Added to "Artist/Craftsmen Mini-Docs" channel; vimeo.com/channels/268613
Otavio Leite 3 weeks ago

I am so glad to see we did not loose an incredible and traditional craft such as this one.
Wonderful work !!
I wont one !
The Method Case 2 weeks ago

Really nice video. The Method Case has published it:
themethodcase.com/the-hourglass-marc-newson-ikepod/
Thank you very much.