The Origin of Timelap

Time is synonymous with change and movement. A day (which includes both day & night) is the duration of time it takes for the earth to rotate all the way around. The sun does not really move across the sky; it appears that way because the earth is spinning. A year is the time it takes the earth to orbit the sun. The movement of the earth induces change ; a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons Autumn, Winter, Summer and Spring. The time a man spends on this planet is calculated by the number of movements made by the earth in a day and it’s periodic travel around the sun. The result is the history of mankind.

Time Lap

The project I am writing focuses on the importance of names, which has opened unto me a new world of meaning, I had a an interesting but meaningful chat with a lady colleague and found out that from the part of the world she comes from names were forced on to people during the colonial times, by the time her generation showed up the indigene names were almost non -existent. This same story is re-echoed in English history the past and present influx of different cultures from around the world has to a large extent influenced the names people bear e.g. the name Richard is of German origin. West Germanic invaders from Jutland and southern Denmark: the Angles (whose name is the source of the words England and English), Saxons, and Jutes, began populating the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. They spoke a mutually intelligible language, similar to modern Frisian--the language of north eastern region of the Netherlands--that is called Old English. Four major dialects of Old English emerged, Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the Midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the Southeast.

These invaders pushed the original, Celtic-speaking inhabitants out of what is now England into Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland, leaving behind a few Celtic words. These Celtic languages survive today in Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland and in Welsh. Cornish, unfortunately, is now a dead language. (The last native Cornish speaker, Dolly Pentreath, died in 1777 in the town of Mousehole, Cornwall.) Also influencing English at this time were the Vikings. Norse invasions, beginning around 850, brought many North Germanic words into the language, particularly in the north of England. Some examples are dream, which had meant 'joy' until the Vikings imparted its current meaning on it from the Scandinavian cognate draumr, and skirt, which continues to live alongside its native English cognate shirt.

The majority of words in modern English come from foreign, not Old English roots. In fact, only about one sixth of the known Old English words have descendants surviving today. But this is deceptive; Old English is much more important than these statistics would indicate. About half of the most commonly used words in modern English have Old English roots. Words like be, water, and strong, for example, derive from Old English roots.
Old English, whose best known surviving example is the poem Beowulf, lasted until about 1100. This last date is rather arbitrary, but most scholars choose it because it is shortly after the most important event in the development of the English language, the Norman Conquest.
Extract from http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm

All Change

TIME LAP is the title of my project after carefully considering the changes and progress made but the theme is still "What is in a name?". I have been and would continue taking pictures of a chosen location at different times of the day over a period of days and I am also looking to record on video interesting clips showing movement. The outcome has been quite interesting to see the difference in pictures taken from the same spot and and video recordings. In relating it to my project on names I have tried to show how time connives with movement to influence changes made to a name.