Nothing has ever been this Internet before.
October 21, 2014 8:14 AM   Subscribe

Bijin&Co. are a modeling agency with a unique solution to the two-pronged need of attracting new models and figuring out which ones are the most popular with the public: put a pretty lady clock on the Internet.

The bijin-tokei, or "Beauty Clock", consists of about a dozen pictures of casually dressed female models in public spaces, holding slates which display the time. Every minute both the models and the time update. With no ads (and nearly all text in Japanese) it's an oddly straightforward, even slightly meditative, experience.

If that doesn't do it for you, don't fret, becuase Bijin&Co. didn't stop there. There's also a "Handsome Man Clock" available to meet your "hey handsome guy do you know what time it is?" needs (though be prepared for far fewer models).

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posted by Poppa Bear (15 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh, I don't know. I think here is where the magic really happens.
posted by teh_boy at 8:39 AM on October 21, 2014 [14 favorites]


It would be neat to assemble something similar using Instagram search and a tag convention for users uploading photos.
posted by michaelh at 8:44 AM on October 21, 2014 [1 favorite]


Ooh, it's the original* Hot or Not, but for human clocks! Happy year 2000 version 2!

* Wikipedia tells me HoN added dating site features, FYI.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:01 AM on October 21, 2014


I am so dumb. At first I didn't understand why all of their signs said "12:05", and was totally surprised when I came back a few minutes later and all their signs said "12:09".
posted by Curious Artificer at 9:10 AM on October 21, 2014 [7 favorites]


It would be neat to assemble something similar using Instagram search and a tag convention for users uploading photos.

You could do it with people just doing art that includes the time. It'd make a great widget.
posted by NoraReed at 9:16 AM on October 21, 2014 [2 favorites]


The people who make images could do it however they want, too: art, photography, typefaces, those poems in the shape of other things, giant numbers made in Minecraft or Legos, etc.
posted by NoraReed at 9:19 AM on October 21, 2014


I suspect that you would very quickly get pictures of the time written on dicks.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 9:24 AM on October 21, 2014


But isn't that the essence of the internet, things written by dicks?
posted by filthy light thief at 9:27 AM on October 21, 2014 [1 favorite]


I have some ROMs from ancient video mahjong machines, and this is pretty much their attract mode. I disabled the ones with nekkid stuff and left them running on a spare computer. Mostly what's left is women in smart-looking blazers with shoulderpads (it is the 80s after all) occasionally getting chased by a dinosaur or giant cat.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:53 AM on October 21, 2014 [2 favorites]


Nothing has ever been this Internet before.

If it were doge or Strongbad holding a sign with the time, then I could see how this claim were true.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:57 AM on October 21, 2014 [1 favorite]


And lest we forget, the original human clock.
posted by rtimmel at 10:12 AM on October 21, 2014 [1 favorite]


Don't forget the perennial Uniqlock, which features models/dancers wearing the season's latest fashions from Uniqlo. First mentioned in the blue way back in 2007.
posted by strangecargo at 10:36 AM on October 21, 2014 [1 favorite]


Anyone know why the details page for each photo includes blood type along with height and home province? Is that, like, some kind of thing there?
posted by echo target at 10:37 AM on October 21, 2014


echo target: This is why you often seen blood types mentioned for Japanese celebrities and anime/video game characters: Blood types in Japanese Culture
posted by strangecargo at 10:45 AM on October 21, 2014 [2 favorites]


A few years ago MOMA had an exhibition of Christian Marclay's art film The Clock. Marclay took clips of varying lengths from thousands of films from all times and places, each of which displayed a time in some way. He assembled them into a 24-hour movie which was totally mesmerizing to watch. The clips have nothing at all to do with each other beyond showing times sequentially, but somehow after a while of watching it a kind of flow develops.
posted by Sangermaine at 10:55 AM on October 21, 2014


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