A geoglyph?
is that a bit like a crop circle (except different) s on 12/10/01 8:05 pm, Cavan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nice to see so many familiar names. Anyone who doesn't know me I'm a > designer for print and exhibition, gradually ressurecting myself as a > digital artist. I teach Digital Design at Queen Margaret University, > and I'm working as Project Artist for the Science Festival's > ThinkTank. > > I'm also working with SNH's Young People's Art Project using new > technologies, mini TV transmitters, video microscopes, PDA's etc. on > a wee island called Fidra off North Berwick. Not as glamourous as > Eigg, where Gair is working, but just as salty, wet and camera > corroding, with enough guano to fertilise the Sahara. > > My current 'ambit'ion is an invisible geoglyph which can be resolved > using geophysical survey equipment. Fits in with the site/location > topic someway but I'd need to think about that more. > > Anyway - a shamelss plug next - so anyone with kids... > > I'm running two rocket workshops at the Royal Observatory on > Blackford Hill, Edinburgh next week as part of Spaced Out, a festival > celebrating Edinburgh's designation as Europes first Space City by > ESA. The publicity only appeared in the racks on Tuesday so I'm doing > an extra bit of plugging round the mailing lists. Dates are; > > Tuesday 16th at 1pm - 5pm & Friday 19th at 1pm - 5pm > Price: �5.00 per rocket Age: 8+ > To book call the ROE: 0131 668 8404/8405 > > Rockets take a couple of hours to make (bring a piece), so you must > be there from the start to build a rocket in time. Launch time is > dependent on numbers, but usually takes place at 4.00pm. They're a > metre long, made from paper and card, travel 150ft into the sky and > are recovered by parachute. It's great fun. > > Will bring along a rocket fitted with a TV camera and digital > transmitter so we can video the hill from the air, so drop in towards > the end if you just want a shuftie. Bring a battery for a BVU-150P > and we can record it on some obsolete format. > > * Anyhoo. If anyone needs any help, advice, helium etc. please feel > free to email me. > > Thanks > > Cavan Convery > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland > post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and write "info ambit" in the message body > ------------------------------------------------- > ****************************************************** Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson Greystones Main Street Newtonmore Highland Region PH20 1DR 01540670002 01540673796 07779106593 07798563799 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.left-luggage.co.uk ************************************************** ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
