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24/7 SUNSETS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Upcoming sunsets April 30, 2006, 15.30 h Universal Time (GMT). Click images for update.
Eternal Sunset endeavours to ensure you can enjoy the sunset live from any location, at any time. As the sunset moves westward, Eternal Sunset continuously tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe. Fascinating: the 'clock of the sun' is in balance with the ever changing times of sunset anywhere! The project amasses real-time images from preexisting webcams all over the world to create a 24-hour stream of live sunsets. It underscores how global networks alter traditional conceptions of time. April 30, 2006, this service provided 187 west-facing webcams across 35 countries.
At the welcome page you find a perpetual show of webcams from places where the sun is going to set. Click 'more' and you get an overview of current sunsets and if you move the cursor over an image you find details about the site and the time you have to wait until sunset. You can click an interactive global map, where you find all webcams contributing to Eternal Sunset and at a realtime global map you can see where on earth the sun is shining and where it is dark. If you know a webcam that is catching the sunset, it is appreciated if you want to contribute your site/knowledge.
Eternal Sunset is a project of Dutch artist Adriaan Stellingwerff. At the website of Biep en Lu you find details about the design of Eternal Sunset. (Thanx to Amy Youngs).

(1) BulbCam (California - USA) Livermore | (2) SnipersCam (Dallas) | (3) SurfCam (Hawaii) Maui

(1) In Fire Station Number 6 in Livermore, California, since 1901 this handblown bulb with carbide filament (approximate 4 watts) is burning continuously as a nightlight over the fire trucks. It is declared to be the oldest known working lightbulb by Guinness Book of World Records.
(2) In cooperation with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza EarthCam has positioned an Internet camera in the southeast window on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Here an assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is alleged to have fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy and severely wounded Texas Governor John Connally as the presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
(3) The waves at the Hawaiian island of Maui are excellent for surfing.

(1) EmotionCam Doetinchem, The Netherlands | (2) TextCam (Florida - USA) Orlando | (3) Simply Noise ()

(1) D-tower is an art piece, commissioned by the city of Doetinchem in the Netherlands, that maps the emotions of the inhabitants of Doetinchem. D-tower a tower, 12 metres tall, in the centre of Doetinchem. D-tower measures daily HAPPINESS, LOVE, FEAR and HATE, using different questions. It collects its information on a statistical basis. D-tower uses a 360 questions questionnaire to record emotions. Every day, D-tower calculates the most prominent emotion, based on the answers received by the participants. Every other day, four new questions are made available to the inhabitants of Doetinchem. An example: 'Are you happy with your partner?' Possible answers: 'very much' - 'yes' - 'a little' - 'no' - 'absolutely not' - 'not applicable'. Each answer has a score. In D-tower, every emotion has its own symbolic colour: red for LOVE, blue for HAPPINESS, yellow for FEAR and green for HATE. Every night, the tower in the centre of Doetinchem lights up in one of these colours. If there was a lot of HAPPINESS in the city on day 1, the tower will turn blue. If a lot of LOVE was in the air on day 2, the tower will glow up red...
(2) Click the link and you see last item, stored at the People's Cam, provided by Matthew and Terri (and Baloo, Scoots & Indy) in Orlando (Florida, USA). It is one of the surprising items at www.indigo.org, to be reached with low and high bandwidth. The textcam started December 9th, 2001. The original intention was for a viewer to type a 'message to the world' (i.e. "Save the Whales" or "I love New York"), but apparently most people use the cam like a chat machine. You too can leave here your own heartfelt cry.
(3) A lot of people need background noise in order to work. Most play music. The webmaster of Simply Noise, however, cannot concentrate with music on, but needed something in the background. Simply Noise is just that: noise. It comes with three types: white -which resembles old TV static, pink -which is more along the lines of a fan, and brown -which is somewhat like the dull roar of a far off waterfall (and my personal fave.) You can set the volume of your noise by clicking and dragging the large gray ball and sliding it back and forth on the volume bar until you find your comfort level.

(1) IcehotelCam (Sweden) Jukkasjärvi | (2) TemperatureCam (Greece) Corfu | (3) TerranovaCam (Switzerland)

(1) Sleep well in - 5 °C! In the small village of Jukkasjärvi (near Kiruna) in Swedish Lapland you find the Icehotel. It has over 80 rooms built each year from snow and crystal clear ice, taken from the waters of the local river Torne. The dropping of the temperature to several degrees below zero in Jukkasjärvi marks the start of an ephemeral art endeavour. Artists from all over the world gather in this small Swedish village, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, to create an exclusive art exhibition, using only frozen water. To sleep in a room made of ice and snow is a surreal experience and a memory for life. You sleep in thermal sleeping bags on a special bed built of snow and ice, on reindeer skins. You are awakened in the morning with a cup of hot lingonberry juice at your bedside. Breakfast buffet, winter overall, boots, mittens, morning sauna and towels included. The Icehotel is available from mid-December to mid-April.
(2) Taverna Agni is a restaurant on the beach of Agni bay, at the island of Corfu in Greece. The owners run three webcams: the TavernaCam (inside; looking for a sponsor), the JettyCam (outside) and the TemperatureCam, with a an hourly view of a thermometer located at the Taverna, 'to forget the erroneous newspaper reports'. At the website a lot of interesting links like about the island, accomodation, food & wine, Learn Greek online and a monthly newsletter.
(3) As life inexorably expands from the home planet throughout the galaxy and beyond, there will come a time when our descendents render a new planet habitable. How might other planets beyond our solar system appear? At Terranova every day a new imaginative 'Planet of the Day' is created. Read the technical explanation. The site was created by John Walker of Fourmilab in Geneva, Switzerland, that features interesting sites like the Earth and Moon Viewer. You find here a a lot of scientific links to astronomy, physics, mathematics and more.

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(1) PeelingPaintCam (USA?) Anywhere | (2) GrassGrowCam (Colorado - USA) Somewhere | (3) CactusCam (Canada) At a window

(1) The Peeling Paint Cam is updated every two minutes. Where the paint is peeling is not known. The site provides four other exiting webcams 'for the easily amused'.
(2) Mr. Grass lives in Colorado and has a grass carpet in his garden. And a webcam. The world can see how the grass is growing there. At a website he tells about his adventures.
(3) The URL of The World's Largest Cactus Cam is situated in Canada. Webmaster is Government Cheese. Cactus Baby is a sassy six-foot succulent plant, born and raised in tropical Southwest Africa. In 2005 it crossed the Atlantic for a little northern exposure. Now it is vegetating its days away, staring out the window of its urban greenhouse, sipping peyote tea... mixed with a shot of agave syrup! The image is captured every ten minutes with a Canon digital webcam.