do you believe in the telectroscope?

A Blooming of Beautiful Images

How nice to see Paul St George captured at his hour of triumph with a smile on his face. But what does that lever do? Does the Telectroscope have to be 'switched on' in some way?

So many people have been photographing the Telectroscopes at both ends of the Tunnel, that I almost feel as if I have experienced it myself already. And yet that pleasure is still to come:

The images (on Flickr BTW) show how much people are clearly enjoying the experience of silent communication at a distance. I'm very much looking forward to the simple and innocent pleasure of peering down a deep hole and seeing people wave back from the other end - or in some cases dance and hold up signs.

I do believe in the Telectroscope!

Big media too has reacted to this phenomenon BTW (see my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/telectroscope/news).

Both BBC and the World Service have reports. And I have been asked to stay up late this evening and talk to BBC Radio 5 Live. Tune in if you can keep awake til 1am!

Oh and here's a YouTube video of a U.S. news item:

Extraordinary Scenes in London

Alas I could not be there, but my brother has managed to document the party to celebrate the opening of the Telectroscope at the London end. What extraordinary scenes:

Mini telectroscopes for sale!

The difficulties associated with restoring the Telectroscope archive:

An opportunity to communicate with our American cousins:

What to do with the London clay that Paul has displaced:

And tomorrow the telectroscope...

I enjoyed my lunch hour down at the site of the London Telectroscope meeting a couple of fellow believers, who were alerted by my Twitter feed and also via the Facebook group to the possibility of encountering Paul St George.

The surfacing has not been the terrifying experience that the cartoon above suggests.

Rather we all had a very gentle and rewarding social experience.

Tomorrow the drilling will cease and the Telectroscopes will be dragged into place. I wish I could be there to see it.

Perhaps someone else out there will do me the favour of taking some photos or some footage?

Paul has surfaced! The tunnel is complete!

I received a mysterious phone call at 7:00 a.m this morning from Paul St George.

He sounded tired, but elated. He urged me to come down to Tower Bridge to bear witness to the completion of the tunnel. When I arrived, this is what I saw:

Paul has emerged BlackSapper-like from his subterranean world at last.

Tomorrow he will prepare the ground for the Telectroscope and he has agreed to answer any questions that people may wish to pose him about his project.

++I suggest that as many of us as possible converge on the London site at 1pm (21/05/08) and really give him a grilling.++

If you take any photos, please do post them on Flickr and tag them with the word 'telectroscope'.

If you have any videos, please do post them on YouTube and tag them with the word 'telectroscope'

Please do join us tomorrow if you can. 1pm sharp.