The Telectroscope at the Fulton Ferry Landing

The very real "illusion" is uncanny. Though I knew in advance that the device uses internet cable that transmits fast video, as I looked through the human-size scope at the people gathered on the other side in front of the Tower Bridge, I immediately suspended my disbelief. Wow! Those are Londoners I'm seeing in real time by means of a giant subterranean Atlantic tunnel. No tricks! No Internets!
After visiting the Telectroscope this past Sunday morning, just part of a fun sun-filled Memorial Day weekend, I chanced late in the day to fire up the World Wide Web and watch NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander beam back the first images from a mysterious wasteland on the Red Planet. Marveling at the clarity of the images, stunned a little that I would live so long as to see photos of Mars on my amazing personal computing device (yesterday was my birthday), I nevertheless felt a little disappointment looking at the barren-looking landscape of the famous planet. I've seen areas of West Texas that look like Mars, and there weren't many signs of life in those

The Telectroscope (official site) installation continues through June 15, 2008 in London and New York.
The Telectroscope blog (more fun).
Related news article from the Telegraph.co.uk : The Telectroscope, London's window on New York.
Images: Yours truly, at the Fulton Ferry Landing, in Brooklyn, taking a picture of the people in London; and a wedding party on the Fulton Ferry landing, on the back side of the Telectroscope.
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