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British artist installs phone link to dying glacier
Reuters ^
| Fri Jun 8, 2007
| Avril Ormsby
Posted on 06/11/2007 5:42:13 AM PDT by Daffynition
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Glaswegian artist Katie Paterson shown in this undated photo handout. The creaking and splashing sounds of Europe's largest glacier slipping into its icy ocean grave are just a phone call away after an artist installed a microphone in its surrounding waters.
REUTERS/Handout
This should make algor giddy.
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posted on
06/11/2007 5:48:37 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Carpe Diem = Seize the day. Carp In Denim = Fish in pants.)
To: rainbow sprinkles
"The link encourages people to connect emotionally with the glacier, she told Reuters from her tent on the Icelandic shoreline"Who is funding this freak?
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posted on
06/11/2007 5:49:36 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: rainbow sprinkles
I hope he was misquoted, or mis-spoke.
The glacier is not alive. It's a river of ice, for God's sake.
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posted on
06/11/2007 5:51:54 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
To: rainbow sprinkles
There’s a fine line between art and sheer stupidity.
To: Mr. K
Sponsors, Virgin Mobile and Dolphinear.
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posted on
06/11/2007 5:55:47 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Carpe Diem = Seize the day. Carp In Denim = Fish in pants.)
To: backhoe; Clam Digger
"...decided to use the phone line after fever-induced hallucinations during a previous trip to Iceland. The 25-year-old imagined that the liters of water she drank during recovery were making her feel part of the nearby glacier which supplied the water."'Nuff said.
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posted on
06/11/2007 5:57:53 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Carpe Diem = Seize the day. Carp In Denim = Fish in pants.)
To: rainbow sprinkles
Meanwhile, at the other end of the world ...
NPR had a story this morning featuring an ecologist from New Zealand who was terribly upset. It seems that rising sea levels (?) have changed ocean currents and now masses of squid are farther off shore than usual. This is a crisis, because a lot of baby birds need to eat squid, but the parent birds can no longer fly far enough to get to the squid. So the babies are starving!!!!
Mr. Ecologist seems to have trouble with the balance of nature: either squid will die, or birds will die. But somebody's going to die. That's nature. I guess he just likes fuzzy baby birds better.
It's pathetic that science is handled at this level.
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posted on
06/11/2007 6:01:10 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Enoch Powell was right.)
To: rainbow sprinkles
It's pathetic that these people are using a natural phenomena to make a political point. They've reinvented an old religion, that of earth worshiping - and they're capitalizing
and profiting on "global warming".
Only it doesn't seem that they hold the whole world accountible - not China certainly - whose pollution is so bad it can be seen from satellite.
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posted on
06/11/2007 6:21:24 AM PDT
by
alicewonders
(Duncan Hunter. Seriously.)
To: rainbow sprinkles
So what is the glacier saying?
“I’m melting, I’m melting, help me I’m meltinnggggggggg!”
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posted on
06/11/2007 6:23:45 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
To: subterfuge
So what is the glacier saying?
"See that Virgin Mobile tent over there? Watch this!"
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posted on
06/11/2007 7:22:23 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: rainbow sprinkles
The link encourages people to connect emotionally with the glacier, Scrappleface? Onion? Iowahawk? This is a joke, right?
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posted on
06/11/2007 7:26:54 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: rainbow sprinkles
I am sure that her hallucinations were caused by “fever”.
And liters of pure (bottled) water she drank.
$10 says Ecstasy.
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posted on
06/11/2007 7:48:18 AM PDT
by
texas booster
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
To: rainbow sprinkles
>>Paterson, a final year student at Slade School of Art in London, decided to use the phone line after fever-induced hallucinations during a previous trip to Iceland.
The 25-year-old imagined that the liters of water she drank during recovery were making her feel part of the nearby glacier which supplied the water.<<
This smacks of cannibalism.
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posted on
06/11/2007 8:32:53 AM PDT
by
ishabibble
(ALL AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: rainbow sprinkles
REACH OUT
REACH OUT AND TOUCH... nothing...
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posted on
06/11/2007 10:24:41 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: alicewonders
...they're capitalizing and profiting on "global warming". They've wised up and realized that just 30 years ago they were warning of a looming Ice Age.
The new PC term is "climate change" so up or down they can claim they were "right".
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posted on
06/11/2007 10:28:54 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: weegee
Can you tell it's shrinking?
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posted on
06/11/2007 10:50:14 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Carpe Diem = Seize the day. Carp In Denim = Fish in pants.)
To: Thrownatbirth
“So what is the glacier saying?”
Can you hear me now?
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posted on
06/11/2007 1:28:55 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: rainbow sprinkles
To: rainbow sprinkles
Indulgence bordering on decadence...
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