before you kno it

“Time is an il­lu­sion, a con­struct made out of hu­man mem­o­ry. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the fu­ture. It’s all hap­pen­ing now.”
—Blake Crouch

“A lot of us grow up be­ing fed this idea of time as ab­solute … The man­age­ment of what counts as cor­rect time and what time it is in any giv­en place is deeply re­lat­ed to au­thor­i­ty … Cap­i­tal­ism sucks, and I think a lot of peo­ple’s re­la­tion­ship to why time is not cool, is struc­tured by the re­source pres­sures that we feel.”
—Chan­da Prescod-We­in­stein

“The Uni­form Time Act, which was passed in 1966, says that states can en­act per­ma­nent stan­dard time but not per­ma­nent day­light sav­ing time … Cal­i­for­nia vot­ers also au­tho­rized a res­o­lu­tion in 2018, but law­mak­ers haven’t tak­en any ac­tion on the leg­is­la­tion so we’re not count­ing it here.”
—Emi­ly Ol­son
 

 

Start­ing this week­end I am go­ing to be blam­ing a lot of things on the time change.

I nev­er could get used to hours bounc­ing by when trav­el­ing around the globe, and the ex­tra hour we get in the fall still mess­es with my sens­es.
 

 

I am right here propos­ing that we not only just REFUSE to FALL BACK this fall as usu­al …

we should ALSO move our clocks FOR­WARD ONE HOUR in a fit of protest and out­right an­ar­chy.
 

 

The rest of the func­tion­ing world seems to have fi­nal­ly caught up to those of us who have been werk­ing from home for many years – as a free­lance de­sign­er this has been my con­struct; a con­struct that start­ed in el­e­men­tary school with the con­cept of “home­work” it­self —

So I asks: Do we re­al­ly need to sync to es­tab­lished clocks and time zones at this point any­mor??

I can have a con­ver­sa­tion with an artist (or client) in New York with­out too many ad­just­ments for any of us.

A N D

This spring I will again be teach­ing TWO TO­TAL­LY ON­LINE cours­es through Amer­i­can Riv­er Col­lege in Sacra­men­to where the only real thing stu­dents will have to do is 1) watch my videos at their leisure and 2) turn in work (also) at their leisure with­in a week­ly time frame. Week­ly, not hourly.

Art New Me­dia 305 His­to­ry of Graph­ic De­sign and Art New Me­dia 324 Dig­i­tal De­sign are the cours­es. The first one tends to fill fast, the sec­ond is an Adobe Il­lus­tra­tor-pow­ered vari­a­tion of the bauhaus sem­i­nar I’ve taught at a few dif­fer­ent schools. (Both are my best/­favourite/well-re­viewed class­es, btw)

It’s the least I could do to help with the hours of dark­ness that will be upon us, thanks to our elect­ed elite.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Most im­ages swiped from Jeff Rochford.

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