What is up with all the clocks?
Hey everyone, Dana here!
And today is the first #FragDana video.
For future videos I am actually planning to answer more than just one question per video,
but I have gotten this question so many times, and while I believe that I touched on it a little
bit way back in my very first Q&A video, that was a pretty long time ago and I don't think
that I went into all the details about the background.
So I'm going kick the new series off with that general much-asked question today:
why all the clocks?
Is there some kind of bigger meaning here, or is it just that I like clocks?
So first of all, no it is not that I just like clocks.
I mean, I do like clocks, I guess.
They're great for telling time, but the background here is not about some kind of
interest that I have in clocks.
When I decided to start the Living Abroad series I had in mind to talk about travel
and different places and my experiences traveling and going to different places and cultures
and languages, so the idea for the clocks came from the sort of stereotypical newsroom
set up, where you have a clock with the time in London and you have a clock with the time
in New York and you have a clock with the time in Sydney.
But instead of just having plain old black and white clocks that all looked the same,
I wanted to have a bunch of different-looking, colorful clocks, and instead of having these
big cities from around the world like London and New York and Sydney, I wanted to have
places that were a little bit lesser known.
Or even a fictional place.
At the beginning we actually had a white wall with all different clocks, and when choosing the
cities or towns for those clocks, Stefan and I just sat down together and picked them out.
But then about a year in we created the blue wall and I needed some new cities and towns
to go with the new clocks, and so I asked in one of the videos back then for suggestions.
So some of these names, for example I believe Frankenmuth and maybe Nuuk, came from the
suggestions under that video, and some of them were, once again, ones that Stefan and
I decided on.
I believe that it was my dad who actually gave us the suggestion of Chicken, which is
in Alaska.
And this Torquay here is talking about the one in Australia. Not the one in the UK.
And then we have Bielefeld. This one over here is in India.
One of our friends went to university there.
And this one, Mos Eisley, from Star Wars, of course. Of course.
This one was at some point in time a real edible pretzel.
Now, however, obviously it's definitely not edible anymore.
But I took the pretzel and I dried it out by heating it in the oven at a really, really low temperature
over several hours, and then I glazed it with lacquer.
This one I made with small pieces from magazines that I rolled up into, kind of little straws
and then I rolled the straws into the circle designs.
And I've also made some coasters and some placemats with that technique.
Um, oh!
This one we printed out the twelves and put them in there.
So it was 12 going all around the clock. I thought that was really clever.
I really like that one. Kind of spooky, right? Ooooh!
It's always...I want to say it's always 12 after 12, but of course it's not 12 after 12.
It's always the time after...never mind. It's kind of spooky, right?
But why are the clocks not working?
Why are they all turned off?
Two reasons: number one, do you know how much ticking goes on when you have 7 clocks all
ticking together? No? Well it's a lot of ticking.
Which was both annoying and distracting when we were filming, as well as annoying and distracting
when just hanging out because this background here is located in our kitchen.
So we would have the ticking constantly going on when cooking, when eating, when just hanging out.
All the time. Ticking ticking ticking of the clocks. I like clocks but not that much.
And number two: I don't say my entire videos all the way through in one long take.
There are cuts in my videos.
There was one. And there. And there. And there was another one.
And having the clocks actually turned on and running was really distracting.
Sometimes there could be a couple minutes between parts of a video, or maybe I grab
something to drink or I take a break or whatever and then there's a longer break, so then
the clocks just flick from one time to the next in between the two cuts, and it was just,
it was really jarring how the clocks kept flicking to a new time throughout the video.
So that's the story behind the clocks on the wall.
Plus, yeah, we also thought that if we're going to have this little "studio" in
our kitchen, then it should be something that we wouldn't mind looking at while we ate dinner.
And, yeah, I don't mind looking at it. I like it. Looks nice in the kitchen.
So my question for you is: If you make videos, how did you come up with your background?
And if you don't make videos what kind of video background would you want to have if you did?
And what other questions do you have for me?
About life, about living abroad, about making videos?
Please let me know in the comments below with the hashtag #FragDana.
And yes, you did notice correctly, if you noticed it at all, that that is a different
hashtag from what I mentioned before.
And you're more than welcome to ask why down in the comments as a #FragDana question.
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Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
Plus...we...
It was a lot of clock ticking.
I mean...
Bye!
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