So this is it… blogpost number two thousand. That is not a small number, no matter how you twist and turn it.
Time flies when one is having a good time, and while two thousand posts might sound like a lot… well… maybe it is.
7 years, 7 months, and 7 days – or 2777 days if you prefer. Almost 120K unique visits. At least 1134 shaves of the day posted.
A large number of friends gained through my hobby, and even more acquaintances.
And most importantly: Shaving has gone from a chore to a joy!
Still for good reasons.
Still for very good reasons.
Just a few pictures I found online, extending on what I posted two days ago:
While inherently “simpler” than the animated display I showed on Tuesday, these clocks would also draw the eye – the movement of the pendulum and minute hand – and would also give the time.
For good reasons too.
The eye – and thus the mind – is drawn towards motion.
This probably harks back to the earliest days of human evolution; movement might mean predators, and predators might mean you’ll become someones dinner as opposed to getting dinner yourself. Advertisers have tapped into this fact for ages, and one can often find advertisements on clocks, or clockwork used to drive animated displays.
And as I was browsing the web, i found pictures of one of the later:
Listed on the site i found it as “animated advertising display, articulated pressboard figure of a father shaving with a baby on his knee, spring driven pendulum movement with simple escapement on a wood base. 1912”
As far as I can tell the clockwork makes the rocking chair, uhm, rock back and forth, while a pair of lever uses that motion to make the shavers hand move across this face. Fairly simple, and in an age before full motion video presumably effective in grabbing shoppers attention.
Boris Karloff.
Well known for staring in a whole range of horror movies, playing among others as Frankenstein’s monster, the mummified Imhotep, a homicidal gangster, the voice of the Grinch, and many more.
Less well known for having sensitive skin and as a spokesperson for Williams’ shaving cream…
