TELECTROSCOPE THIS: BROOKLYN NYC

It looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, but really this telescope-like device is called a telectroscope.  The device is part history and part creative spirit connecting New York to London though a 37 x 11 foot telectroscope.  Real time images are captured in both locations and delivered via a small circular video screen inside the teletroscope.  If you haven’t yet ventured out to Brooklyn or the Tower Bridge in London, you have until June 15th to get your view on so get on it.  The teletroscope is free to view in Brooklyn (Woot!) but 1 in London.

Check out the video below to get a taste of the experience.  If you’re looking for a place to get your flirt on, this seemed the spot to do it especially being that London is 5 hours ahead of NYC (i.e. several drinks ahead).

Teletroscope Video

New York

London

The Artist

Paul St. George is a multimedia artist and sculptor currently residing in London.  St. George blurs the line between spectacle and viewer participation in his work.

The Supposed History

A little bit of lore and imagination crafted this story.  Supposedly St. George discovered the drawings of his great-grandfather in his attic and uncovered a tunnel from London to New York.  Through a series of complex mirrors and lenses, the teletroscope would provide a live link between the two cities.  In actuality, the video is connected via existing fiber optic networks.

Cost

$787,000 as underwritten by the British government grants and private sponsorship

In short. . .check it out.  You’ll dig.  Many thanks to Jedi for clueing me in.

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     It all started during the course of a rather baffling conversation about the dark art of the lawnmower. Dr. Brunel was, of course, the interlocutor in question. Pork pies aside, he was explaining the invention of the Telectroscope. The subject was as foreign to me as the contents of Lady Jennifer’s handbag. A mysterious and baffling region, inhabited by dragons and badly mangled coathangers. I listened with interest.

Dr. Brunel grandfather, yesterday

“Of course, as you well know,” he continued. I didn’t; the fiend had the edge on me here. “The Telectroscope was opened last year. I’m surprised that you were not on the VIP list.”

His was possibly not pregnant, but certainly had been given a good seeing to. It seems that recently disclosed MI5 documents had revealed that a tunnel had been drilled under the Atlantic Ocean, just after World War I. It seems that it was built so that England could use small pockets of New York as an East of Ealing overspill. The papers were originally leaked by one Paul George, who happened upon a packet of dusty papers in a trunk in his grandmother’s attic. On further inspection he discovered that they had been the property of his great-grandfather, an eccentric Victorian engineer, Alexander Stanhope St George. Paul began to read through the papers and discovered a veritable treasure trove: diaries, diagrams, correspondence, scribbled calculations, and even one or two photographs. At first, Paul felt a detached interest in this first hand account of social and cultural history. But as he read on, he became more and more absorbed, until, with a sudden thrill, he realised that these papers could have a greater significance than was at first apparent. The notebooks were full of intricate drawings and passages of writing describing a strange machine. This device looked like an enormous telescope with a strange bee-hive shaped cowl at one end containing a complex configuration of mirrors and lenses.

 Alexander seemed to be suggesting that this invention, which he called a Telectroscope, would act as a visual amplifier, allowing people to see through a tunnel of immense length… a tunnel, the drawings implied, stretching from one side of the world to the other. The idea, it seems – this was the real breakthrough – was to employ the “suppression of absence.”

     How I missed out on this peculiar technological innovation, I don’t understand. Surely intercontinental travel should cost mere pennys. Someone’s raking in the loot I’ll be bound. Could it be that as we step onto the plane, jetting off to such dream destinations as the airports of our allies, that they’re secretly drugging our G&Ts, and posting us off down the telectroscope? I’ll get to the bottom of this.

Ulysse Nardin Chairman Mechanical Smartphone

I’ve been following the Steampunk phenomenon with fascination. It’s a stylistical branching out that makes perfect sense to me, bringing as it does the formal exuberance of 19th century excitement at the technological wonders of the industrial revolution, its heavy mechanical seduction, its steam and coaldust manliness, onto the flat, bland and opaque physicality of our own turn of the century electronics: Steampunk is hard at work trying to turn Bill Gates into Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Until now, Steampunk has been a somewhat tribal affair, developed by cyberpunk geeks intent on beautifying their gear, a labour of love and tinkering. Well, Steampunk is finally crossing over into mainstream consumer electronics – I was wondering when – and with the support of The Long Now Foundation no less… It makes perfect sense. The Ulysse Nardin Chairman hybrid smartphone’s unique selling point? It’s powered by a mechanical thingy that charges its battery through the users’ movements, just like self-winding wristwatches do. And it looks pure Steampunk.

I leave you with a couple of Steampunk beauties, in the hope that I will get a few of you hooked onto the trend.

Laptop by Datamancer

Brass USB stick

Steampunk'd desktop computer

And of course the most spectacular of them all, Paul St George’s Telectroscope that linked London and New York, the twin capitals of Steam and Punk, in the summer of 2008.

The Telectroscope, London end.

Tá aqui uma coisa totalmente inútil, mas bem legal. Tão legal que dá até vontade de visitar um dia antes de morrer, o Telectroscope. Graças à criatividade e a ajuda técnica de Peter Kohlmann essa “invenção” fez o maior sucesso e causou a maior perplexidade nos moradores de Londres e Nova Iorque. Digo invenção entre aspas porque não tem nada de novo nisso que você não faça já há alguns anos com um computador ou celular com câmera e uma conexão.

O que fizeram foi colocar em cada ponta das duas cidades (ponte do Brooklin em Nova Iorque e Tower Bridge em Londres), uma escultura de um telescópio saindo de dentro do chão como se tivesse vindo do fundo do mar e exibindo imagens da outra  ponta simultaneamente permitindo interações entre as pessoas nos dois continentes em tempo real por uma conexão de fibra óptica.

Impressionante! Diriam… ou até mesmo uma nova forma de se manter contato com parentes na Europa direto dos EUA sem pagar por internet ou por ligação à distância.

Fonte: Associated Press

May 22-June 15 2008…Artichoke unveiled the Telectroscope

Who is Artichoke?

-”A creative company…that puts on extraordinary shows that change the way people look at the world..”  read more about Artichoke at: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/cn/artichoke/index.php

What is the Telectroscope?

-It is one of Artichoke’s art installations involving two elaborately designed, gigantic telescopes…one in London, another in New York.

-This is how the artist describes this magical device:

“Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel was finally completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope was installed at both ends which miraculously allowed people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa. On 15th June, having helped more than 50,000 people establish or rekindle transatlantic friendships, the Telectroscopes vanished, as mysteriously as they had first appeared.”

My trip to the Telectroscope

For awhile I had been intrigued by this contraption and I wanted more than anything to go see it…experience it.  Unfortunately the installation was only to be up for less than a month.  Fortunately I was to be in NY during the last days of its existence.  I literally dragged my sister, father, and Fresno friend to Brooklyn (located at teh Fulton Ferry Landing near the Brooklyn Bridge) at midnight…we hoped to go later so as to see London during it’s morning bustle.

I remember it was raining when we arrived ats the Landing…it was rather deserted except for the one lonely watchman.  From the landing we could see NY life glistening across the water and the bridge full of life despite the early morning hours.  Bright photographer’s lights cast a spotlight on the Telectroscope…it was much much larger than I had expected.

My sister and I peered through the “lens–” with the dark behind us we saw a sunny, early start of the day in London.  A man, in a baseball cap and windbreaker, looked right back at us.  Both sides, more excited than was probably deemed necessary waved to each other.  We pointed to our watch and it motioned what time it was and that he was still tired.  We brought out our cameras and took a picture of him and he posed with a peace sign…perhaps because he saw that we were Asian.

Really, despite the simplicity of this installation, for the time I stood waving at the man in London, it was fantastical/magical/unicorn spotting-like.  Even though it was a  stranger standing before me it felt like two friends sharing the same experience. The Telectroscope is a simple device that brought out a seemingly simple feeling of friendship.   I guess Artichoke accomplished its goal: changing the way people look at the world.

I was pleased.  Good.  Let’s leave it at that.

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Há muito tempo a expressão artística deixou de ser apenas contemplativa e passou a ser também interativa. A última que percorreu o mundo foi o Telectroscope criado por Paul St George que começou com a intrigante imagem de uma broca emergindo do chão de Brooklyn Bridge em Nova York e da Tower Bridge em Londres, para dias depois, surgir uma estrutura que parece com um túnel que leva ao centro da terra. Sua aparência intriga e chama a atenção, e então é aí que a peça começa a realmente surgir. As duas extremidades possuem um visor no fundo e funcionam como um grande webcam, porém a impressão que se tem é que no final do túnel você pode ver a saída do outro lado do Atlântico. Essa obra me lembra uma outra em que o artista pintou dois quadros parecidos e instalou uma fiação telefônica. Um quadro ficou em um museu e outro ficou em um bar (se eu não me engano), então as pessoas do museu podiam ouvir o barulho ambiente do bar e as pessoas do bar podiam ouvir as conversas das pessoas no museu. Não era uma interação como o Telectroscope, mas ainda existia uma interação.

Com um outro tipo de interação, o Solar Collector envolve a expressão artística dos artistas, a preservação do meio ambiente e a expressão artística em cada ser humano do planeta. Criado por Matt Gorbet, Rob Gorbet e Susan LK Gorbet, a obra localizada em Ontário, Canadá passa o dia absorvendo a luz solar, transformando-a em energia. Ao anoitecer, os pontos luminosos localizados em suas doze hastes de aço móveis, iniciam uma performance de padrões de luzes determinadas por internautas. Isso mesmo! Você, internauta, pode interagir com a obra determinando padrões de luzes, intensidades e afins. É só entrar no site e dar asas à sua imaginação.

Há algum tempo atrás a palavra globalização era uma novidade, mas hoje é tão normal quanto um “bom dia” (apesar que receber um “bom dia” está cada vez mais raro). Porém a globalização artística ainda causa um interesse no público. Enfim, uma coisa é ir até Ontário para interagir com a obra, outra é estar no conforto da sua casa e interagir com uma obra localizada no Canadá. E por falar em globalização, você nunca visitou o Canadá? Não tem problema, basta ter um Google Earth e digitar Solar Collector para ver onde a obra está.

Imagem do Telectroscope: Matthew Andrews/Divulgação
Imagem do Solar Collector: Divulgação

So a while back I went to see the Telectroscope in Dumbo. I was very excited about it. I’m not sure why. There’s not a lot to the Telectroscope–I mean, you get to look at people in London via live video. If I knew someone in London (I mean, I do know people in London…hmmm), then maybe I could make a date to see them face-to-face, and then (cue music) even though we’d know how very far about we are, it’d help to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. Ahem.

So I wasn’t really all that impressed by the video part of it, but I think the video part of it is really not the point. I mean, look at this:

And then this:

And it’s kind of amazing.

More pics of this and other awesome stuff from DUMBO can be found here.

I first heard about this from all the buzz in the Brooklyn blogosphere and have since visited it 3 times.

What is it? The artist says that it’s a secret tunnel that goes from New York to London. But, basically, it’s just 2 webcams in London and New York. Regardless, it was fun to visit. Of course, I couldn’t resist trying to get the people in London to visit my blog…

If you look in the background of the first picture, you can see how they’re setting up the waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge!

March 21 – April 19 Aries
Zut alors! It’s been – count ‘em – three months this weekend since I first got bit by the horoscoop* bug in March. Gentle readers, I’ve really come to love doing this and I welcome your comments and suggestions for future columns. Now I just have to figure out a way to make this labor of love lucrative. Again, your input is welcomed on that point as well.

April 20 – May 20 Taurus
You have three more days (and it’s open 24 hours a day) to view The Telectroscope, an extraordinary optical device that visually connects New York and London through a tunnel beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Harry Potter step aside, this is the real thing: the stuff dreams are made of. In this case, the dreams of Alexander Stanhope St. George – an eccentric British engineer in the Victorian age. His great-grandson Paul found notes in an old trunk in his grandmother’s attic which explained St. George’s plan to build what he called a ‘device for the suppression of absence.’ So the story goes. This is your chance to wave to people on the other side of the world – in real time.

May 21 – June 20 Gemini
Sunday June 15 is Father’s Day and I urge you to reach out and tell your father you love him, if you’re lucky enough to have him alive in the world. This will be my first Father’s Day since my dad passed on last July and I would give anything to tell him Happy Father’s Day one more time.

June 21 – July 22 Cancer
Spare a thought for Richard J. Hollingshead Jr., the brilliant inventor of the drive-in theater in Camden New Jersey (of course, where else?). The very first drive-in theater opened on June 6, 1933 and in their heyday (1950’s and 1960’s) there were about 5,000 of them in the United States enabling teenagers to get all hot and bothered inside the safety of a parked car. Wired Magazine has a great piece about all this which includes an awesome gallery of photos of some of the 500 or so drive-ins that still exist today.

July 23 – August 22 Leo
Today’s the day, Leo. You can be the change you want to see in the world by signing a petition to put the Monkees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame where they rightfully belong. They were eligible for induction a decade ago. Did you know…that in 1967 they sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones – combined? That Mickey Dolenz owned one of the first three Moog Synthesizers ever sold, and that the first album to feature this instrument was by the Monkees? That their only movie, Head, is one of the strangest movies ever made and well worth seeking out and watching if you’ve never seen it? That Mike Nesmith invented MTV but never really got the credit (and certainly did not get the money) for doing so?

August 23 – September 22 Virgo
Download of the week is John Prine’s achingly beautiful It’s A Big Old Goofy World. Prine is a national treasure; he brought us unforgettable iconic songs like Angel From Montgomery, Illegal Smile, Sam Stone, Hello In There. This one came a lot later and is from the great collection The Missing Years. But it’s sweet and glorious and fumbling and honest just like all of his best work. And ooh baby, it’s a big old goofy world.

September 23 – October 22 Libra
Need a special gift for that special someone? How about Kama Sutra Chocolates. You’ve never seen anything quite like them, I can guarandamntee ya. Overnight Shipping is recommended because you sure don’t want these to arrive in broken pieces.

October 23 – November 21 Scorpio
Something is missing. You know it. I know it. What in the sam hill is it? It’s been only a week since the drama that was the long long road to the democratic nomination drew to a close ~ is that it? Or is it, perhaps, weather that didn’t make you sweat like a stevedore? Or could it be…yes…I think it is Wainy Days, one man’s absurdly hilarious quest for love and sex in the big city. Damn! You’re in luck. Season 3 of David Wain’s award-winning smash internet hit series starts this coming Monday, June 16 on My Damn Channel. Set your alarm NOW for Monday morning.

November 22 – December 21 Sagittarius
It being prom season & all puts me in mind of one of my favorite teenage angst films ever, Splendor in the Grass. Directed by Elia Kazan, written by William Inge, and starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. Just check out the tag lines they used for this classic in 1961: A LOVE STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHERS!! It’s unrelenting moments, its tragedies and splendors! There is a miracle in being young…and a fear. Bud (WB) and Deanie (NW) are terribly, terribly in love in 1920’s Kansas. Societal pressures force them apart via sexual obsession and madness. The movie’s title comes from a Wordsworth poem which is read during a high school English class by Deanie before she completely loses it. OMG they just don’t make movies like this anymore ~ alas!

December 22 – January 19 Capricorn
A friend of mine once diverted a cross country business trip to stop in San Francisco just to dine at the family-owned Vietnamese restaurant Thanh Long and having been there myself, I can understand that. It’s worth a trip to San Fran just for the signature dishes of Roasted Crab and Garlic Noodles with Tiger Prawns. Be warned; it’s nowhere near downtown but well worth the ride.

January 20 – February 18 Aquarius
Robert Louis Stevenson once said, “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” In that spirit, have a look at this list of the most unusual buildings in the world. There’s the Crooked House in Poland – the Dancing House in Prague – there’s even a really bizarre one in (of course) Florida.

February 19 – March 20 Pisces
Portland, Oregon is chockablock with interesting places and one of its crown jewels is Powell’s Books. You can have your Borders and your Barnes & Nobles and your Amazons, I’ll take this place hands down. You could spend hours, days and weeks in here and you’d still never take it all in. The Seattle Times called it ‘probably the world’s greatest bookstore.’ When you enter, they give you a map because it’s the size of a warehouse – yet it still feels homey and intimate. And their entire inventory is available on the web.

Artist’s imagination at work as optical invention connects New York and London in real time

[Associated Press WorldStream]

NEW YORK_New Yorkers could see their English cousins across the pond Thursday without benefit of cable TV or video conferencing, courtesy of an unusual live optical hookup created by a conceptual artist with a fanciful tale of a long-lost tunnel.

An optical device called a “telectroscope” was placed at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn and another one on the Thames River in London on Thursday.

Spectators stepped up to the machine on both sides of the Atlantic and waved and wrote greetings to each other in real time on wipe-off message boards.

They told knock-knock jokes, asked about the weather and found time for a few shout-outs to Queen Elizabeth and the Manchester United soccer team. Manhattanite Lorena Yeves, 21, even exchanged cell phone numbers with a fellow on the London end.

The contraption is the invention of Paul St George, a London artist known for his tiny replicas of monumental pieces of art.

Publicists will say only that it uses fiberoptic communication. St George prefers to stick to his story that the machine was started by his great-grandfather in Victorian times and transmits images via a tunnel under the ocean.

According to the project’s Web site, St George’s work “has always been concerned with questioning the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed. His work is also often associated with different realities, spectacle and viewer participation.”

The telectroscopic spectacle and viewer participation will be in operation on both sides of the Atlantic until June 15.
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On the Net:

http://www.telectroscope.net

Associated Press WorldStream — 05/26/08

For those fortunate enough to be in New York city, or London between now and Sunday – you may want to check out the  Telectroscope.

All credit goes to Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo for introducing me to this story on twitlive.

Think art meets technology. In a nutshell, an artist named Paul St George discovered sketches that belonged to his great-grandfather, an engineer, Alexander Stanhope St George. The sketches were of the Telectroscope.

= an enormous telescope with mirrors and lenses – that allowed people to see one another from either side of a drastically long tunnel. And so we get Paul’s envisioning of his great-grandfather’s sketches, with a Telectroscope reaching from New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, to London’s Tower Bridge.

The actual technical information behind the machine can be found in the link previously posted. But I just wanted to comment more about how awesome this idea and envisioning is. Obviously no sound can travel through it, but from the conversation Dick and Leo had on the show – random people were simply pointing at each other and jumping around to make their presence known.

While many would say that this is far from the most useful application of technology, I personally think it’s a great application/presentation of art.

When I first heard the story, I literally thought that a walk-able tunnel was dug underneath the Atlantic, and I was disappointed to find out otherwise. (Imagine an underwater movator stretching across the cities.)

Nonetheless, Telectroscopes are still awesome – go see it if you have the chance.

Telectroscopes today, Teleportation tomorrow.

It was a gorgeous, sunny Sunday on the weekend and we decided to hit some events on the South Bank.

At the Hayward Gallery we saw the well-reviewed Psycho Buildings exhibit, an exploration of buildings and spaces by artists. I liked it a lot: many of the works are very interactive spaces you walk inside or through. Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros Show Room is a 3D freeze-frame of an exploding room, Rachel Whiteread’s town of dollhouses Place was quite eerie in the darkness, and Mike Nelson’s To the Memory of HP Lovecraft is a set of unsettling rooms that make you feel as though something terrible had just happened there. Tomas Saraceno’s Air-Port-City outside bubble-dome was fun. I would have liked to try out Gelitin’s Normally, Proceeding And Unrestricted With Without Title. It’s getting the most media attention: it’s a 4-foot deep pond of water on one of the gallery’s outside balconies that you row a small boat around in. The queue was ‘way too long. Building Design has some good photos.

Then we walked along the South Bank towards Tower Bridge to find the Telectroscope. This installation, only on for a few weeks, is a large pipe with a “window” at the end showing live images from an identical installation in new York City. Done with a broadband internet feed, it’s letting Londoners and New Yorkers wave at each other in real time. While we got a good look at it, the queue was – once again – far too long to justify waiting to wave at a strange American.

Back home we made good use of the continued good weather and had some beers in the back yard and invited the Neighbours over for a roast chicken.

TELECTROSCOPE THIS: BROOKLYN NYC

It looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, but really this telescope-like device is called a telectroscope.  The device is part history and part creative spirit connecting New York to London though a 37 x 11 foot telectroscope.  Real time images are captured in both locations and delivered via a small circular video screen inside the teletroscope.  If you haven’t yet ventured out to Brooklyn or the Tower Bridge in London, you have until June 15th to get your view on so get on it.  The teletroscope is free to view in Brooklyn (Woot!) but £1 in London.

Check out the video below to get a taste of the experience.  If you’re looking for a place to get your flirt on, this seemed the spot to do it especially being that London is 5 hours ahead of NYC (i.e. several drinks ahead).

Teletroscope Video

New York

London

The Artist

Paul St. George is a multimedia artist and sculptor currently residing in London.  St. George blurs the line between spectacle and viewer participation in his work.

The Supposed History

A little bit of lore and imagination crafted this story.  Supposedly St. George discovered the drawings of his great-grandfather in his attic and uncovered a tunnel from London to New York.  Through a series of complex mirrors and lenses, the teletroscope would provide a live link between the two cities.  In actuality, the video is connected via existing fiber optic networks.

Cost

$787,000 as underwritten by the British government grants and private sponsorship

In short. . .check it out.  You’ll dig.  Many thanks to Jedi for clueing me in.

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Or at least that’s the story Paul St George, a London-based artist, tells when asked about his latest art installation in both New York and London, the Telectroscope (which is sure to attract Steam Punk enthusiasts). According to him, the device is stationed at each end of a transatlantic tunnel connecting the two cities and through ingenious mirror manipulation, allows folks to view each other across continents. From the looks of the obviously planted gravel and broken boards that is surely true.

The wonder of engineering sits just under the Brooklyn Bridge, on the scenic Fulton Ferry Landing and appears to be an enormous telescope in structure, with a door to an engineer’s room and numerous cogs and wheels upon its mass. To continue the story behind this Victorian piece, it was only the finishing of a project began over a century ago by the artist’s great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St George. The present St George stumbled upon diaries and sketches left behind by his predecessor and from these papers gleaned the plans and the saga of a tunnel burrowed through the earth that would allow persons to travel from one location to another. The grand scheme appeared to be too grand, and it was decided that the tunnel would have to be scaled down. However, another great idea was born from this setback. Why travel, if one could simply see the persons on the other end of the tunnel? And so Alexander set to designing a machine powerful enough to magnify the view from one end of the tunnel to the other. This “device for the suppression of absence” is the famed Telectroscope that we are now fortunate enough to view and to view through.

The Telectroscope attracting lots of passersby

Alexander also began the great dig, but beset by misfortunes and tragedies, the tunnel was left incomplete until his equally maniacal grandson, Paul St George, completed the project and brought the whole thing to the public eye. The story is as much part of the art installation as the Telecroscope itself, and is worth a read at the official site.

The piece itself is impressive, but it is its function that brings forth onlookers in both time zones. White boards and markers are provided to spark conversation. Although an interesting concept, the people involved in the art piece are its failures. During my visit the Londoners were generally snide, while the New Yorkers milled about without a retort.

Snide Londoners

The Telectroscope is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will be available until the 15th of June. Some heartfelt moments could be squeezed out if you are in New York with friends or relatives in London, or vice versa. In general, I suggest visiting the installation armed with comments and maybe some repartees.

• The Telectroscope Homepage where you can check out the full “story”
• The Wikipedia entry with some more history, technical info, and alternative meanings
• Great CNN article which discusses the artist’s motivation

is an art exhibit in New York and London that allows you to stand on one side of the Atlantic Ocean, and peer through a “secret tunnel” displaying the other side.

You can view the American side at the Fulton Ferry Landing near Brooklyn Bridge and the British side is on display on the south side of the river near Tower Bridge.

If you live in New York and have friends in London, you can coordinate your visits and wave to each other through the “tunnel”. It looks pretty cool and lots of people are having fun with it.

If you’re planning on going to check it out, it’s only on display until June 15.

Have you seen it? Who did you see on the other side?

Tell me about it in the TravelPod travel forums.

Louise Brown

TravelPod Community Manager