Saying Hello To London Through The Telectroscope in New York |
Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
If you are in New York, go to the Fulton Ferry Landing by the Brooklyn
Bridge and peer at London with a monstrous telectroscope. If you are
lucky, your buddies in London happen to be on the South Bank by the
Tower Bridge where a similar telectroscope stands. And guess what you
will see? Each other! Why would that be in any way interesting,
considering that we can webcam with anyone any time?
This prehistoric-looking getup is ART created by London artist Paul St.
George. And he, apparently, is only fulfilling the dream of his
great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George. The elder St. George
dreamt of burrowing a tunnel across the ocean, setting a magnifying
telectroscope at each end so that people could see each other.
If the fake tale isn’t enticing enough, the gizmo itself is worth the
trek. It took two days and nights for the massive contraption to grow
from the river mud and morph from a six-foot, revolving, metallic drill
bit to the final tower of a 37-foot-long telescope. It will be
there until June 15. To set up a viewing date with your buddies at the
other end, go to telectroscope.net. By Tuija Seipell
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