May 22, 2008
Telectroscope to London Unveiled at Brooklyn Bridge
The festivities commemorating the 125th birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge got underway full swing today with the unveiling of the mysterious Telectroscope at the Fulton Ferry Landing, just south of the bridge at 1 Water Street. The installation's creator, Paul St George, claims to have just completed a forgotten tunnel connecting New York to London and, using giant parabolic mirrors, has reconstructed a Victorian-era optical device enabling people on either end of the tube to wave at each other.
Presented by the Artichoke art collective, who built the massive ambulatory “Sultan’s Elephant” in London two years ago, the Telectroscope will be open for gawkers 24/7 until June 15th. Attendants on hand supply visitors with dry-erase boards to write messages for the Londoners on the other side, at Tower Bridge. It's just frustrating that with the dollar so low, they can't toss a few pounds though the tunnel.
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that is some big steampunk art
ladies, step up to my telectroscope. don't be scared.
you said it, jeremoss, that is some glorious steampunk hotness!
i can't wait to check it out tomorrow!!
Can you actually see the other londoners?
This is a great old-timey public spectacle.
That is freaking awesome!
The fifth photo from right is London! I love this and the second photo is hot.
how does it work?
awesome. just awesome.
nice, beats the pants off that asinine waterworld spectacle they have planned for later in the summer.
Wow, a public art project that I'm actually interested in!
I'm guessing this is simply a live video feed. you can see the camera inside the 'scope' in picture 5.
this article explains it all, as does his website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/arts/design/21tele.html?scp=1&sq=telectroscope&st=nyt
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/
HRM King Edward and President Teddy Roosevelt were on hand to inaugurate this mechanical marvel.
Pure steampunk, I love it. Can't wait to see it.
1 pound for londoners?!? Ha!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
so cool, this should be permanent.
wow. between this and the waterfalls this is going to be a good summer for free public art!
kudos to whoever at city hall is approving all this good work.
#12 got it right, it is a video, you stupid shites!
A sucker is born every minute. The 'cool' and 'awesome' resposes reveal the IQ of the average commenter on this blog.
Just because it is a LIVE video feed doesn't make it any less cool or awesome. You, thefacts, should lighten up. It is a great fanciful artistic project and shows that not everyone takes life so seriously...
NY Post did a good story on it - couple of funny brits...who knew they did video?
http://www.nypost.com/video/?vxSiteId=0db7b365-a288-4708-857b-8bdb545cbd0f&vxChannel=PostFeatured&vxClipId=1458_291345&vxBitrate=300
lol, 'thefacts' you are just dumb.
it was really cool & i couldn't help but take pictures of it.