Photo: "Telectroscope" Installation, Brooklyn and London

The "telectroscope" is an installation by artist Paul St George. It allows people at Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn to see people on the bank of the Thames in London and vice versa, in real time. The idea has a fictional historical background, where the artist's "great-grandfather" invented a telectroscope that used a transatlantic tunnel from New York to London to allow people to connect across the Atlantic. In reality, the installation uses a highspeed broadband link. This photo is taken in Brooklyn, looking to London and you can see the Tower Bridge in the background, some British security guards, and a man dressed in a tux. It was about 12 am in London at the time.