[Daffynition]

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

[Daffynition]

This should make algor giddy.

[Mr. K]

"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?

[backhoe]

I hope he was misquoted, or mis-spoke.

The glacier is not alive. It's a river of ice, for God's sake.

[Clam Digger]

There’s a fine line between art and sheer stupidity.

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[alicewonders]

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.

[subterfuge]

So what is the glacier saying?

“I’m melting, I’m melting, help me I’m meltinnggggggggg!”

[denydenydeny]

The link encourages people to connect emotionally with the glacier,

Scrappleface? Onion? Iowahawk? This is a joke, right?

[ishabibble]

>>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.

[weegee]

REACH OUT
REACH OUT AND TOUCH... nothing...

[stainlessbanner]

Press 1 for English

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Indulgence bordering on decadence...

[Winniesboy]

I don't share the rather puritan responses to this on this thread. This is actually a rather neat idea - not particularly profound, but nice. I've spent a good deal of time on and around glaciers, and it's true the sounds they make are extraordinary, quite unlike anything else. I don't see why this shouldn't be shared: and enjoying this doesn't mean you're buying into any quasi-political sub-text, any more than enjoying those "whale music" records means you're buying into an anthropomorphic myth about whales. You can just enjoy it for what it is.

[aruanan]

British artist installs phone link to dying glacier

Glaciers don't die because they're not alive. They only recede, advance, or stay somewhere in between. The use of "dying" and "icy ocean grave" is an example of anthropomorphism.

[Nailbiter]

Can you spare $50, to listen to a dying Glacier

[JLAF]

You can listen to it at this link. They recorded 60 seconds of it.

http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=8659197#8659197