![]() ![]() It turns out that July 6 is the day the International Olympic Committee will announce the host city of the 2012 Olympics. Perhaps Virgin Megastore, the ground-floor tenant at One Union Square South, has circumvented the clock and July 6 is the date of a blowout DVD sale? Or is it the Metronome itself whose days are numbered? A conversation with the doorman at the building solved the mystery. The first day of summer is actually June 21. In the distance, the clock ticked ominously away. "I think it's the beginning of summer," said Nick Deeg, who manages the equipment room at the nearby New York Film Academy. So why the change? What is the significance of July 6? ![]() The clock was installed in 1999 and had not wavered from its format. With its rapid blur of digitized numbers, the Metronome had always confounded out-of-towners, but now it was bewildering New Yorkers, too. Last Tuesday, the clock had 70 days remaining, which would place Day 0 at July 6. Instead of telling time in its usual way, by counting the hours while simultaneously subtracting the remaining time left in the day, the artwork's digital clock seemed to be counting down to some future date. A few weeks ago, passers-by began to notice a change in the Metronome, the enormous public art project on the facade of One Union Square South. ![]()
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