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Put a stable camera in some
reasonably interesting, webcam-worthy
location. Have it take a picture
once every four minutes for a year;
archive these pictures without
publishing them.
Then start running a Web site to
display the pictures, but swap time
of day with time of year. For
example,
on March 28, the web site
would show only images gathered at
5:40 AM. At midnight on March 28, it
would show an image from 5:40 AM on
January 1; four minutes later, the
site would refresh to show an image
from 5:40 AM on January 2. By noon,
it would be showing images from 5:40
AM in June. At 11:56 PM or so, it
would show an image from 5:40 AM on
December 31; when the time rolled
over to midnight on March 29, it
would show the image from 5:44 AM on
January 1.
(As this is happenning, it's
squirreling images away for next
year's display, of course.)
This would give people a chance to
witness time and date in a different
way. The change wouldn't be seamless
-- the weather varies from day to day
-- but there would still be some
continuity from one image to the next.
(Ideally, the location would be one
that has something interesting to see
at night. Otherwise, one might want
to start the year at dawn and end the
year at dusk.)
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