“Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.”

This is the description of the Telectroscope from the artists website, it could also be that it is all done by fiber optics, the first explanation by artist Paul St George is a little more magical though.

One end of the “tunnel” is next to Tower Bridge on the Thames river in London. The opposite end is next to Brooklyn Bridge by New York’s East River.

It is similar to a gigantic webcam, people on one side can look in and see people on the other side. Unlike using a webcam however most of the people on the other end will be wearing clothes.

You can view a video of the piece over at the BBC.

ith the popularity of digital art we are given all sorts of neat and interesting ways to present it. It is one thing to have a set of pictures to show off your work, but the ability to show how you created the piece in a time-lapse video is a great way to engage the viewer. That is exactly what Chad Pugh has done with his piece titled Science Machine .

According to Chad,

“This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from [him] for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to. A screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full 18 minute video, but [he] shrunk it into a video under 7 minutes for entertainment’s sake.”

This is a great way to engage the viewer and to give them a back stage view of a piece. Prints of the piece are available for $45 in limited supply, so if you like what Chad has created take a look at his store or browse through his sets on flickr .