London to New York, By “Telectroscope”

From The New York Times:

“Before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a strange sight began to appear on Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn: a six-foot-tall metal drill bit seemed to emerge from the wooden pier, covered in genuine East River mud and revolving slowly beneath the glow of the Manhattan skyline. On Wednesday it will grow into a 12-foot-tall industrial-looking behemoth erupting just in front of the quaint Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. And on Thursday? Imagine an enormous brass and wood telescope, 37 feet long by 11 feet tall, connected to a mirrored dome, like a child’s drawing of something that will see into the future. Voilà: the Telectroscope will have materialized.”

It’s been a while since The Sultan’s Elephant captured our hearts here in London, so I’m looking forward to seeing what this project is all about.

It appears that, whislt all that’s happening in NYC, on the banks of the Thames in the shadow of Tower Bridge, we will be blessed with a real-time, life-size view across The Pond, 24 hours a day, thanks to a “Telectroscope” and Paul St George, a 53-year-old artist based in London… and his Grandfather.

Apparently, Alexander Stanhope St George (born July 8, 1848; died Oct. 12, 1917) was “a British inventor and researcher” who came up with a feasible design for a device to connect places on opposite sides of the world visually through a very long tunnel, and even began digging under the Atlantic to make his creation work.

In fact this is a collaboration with Artichoke, who produced The Sultan’s Elephant. Find out more at the Telectroscope website. It’s open for viewing between 22ndMay and 15th June.

The Telectroscope is situated on the south side of the river near Tower Bridge. SE1 2DB

Should be interesting.