MOST was launched from Plesetsk along with Mimosa and some handful size nano-satellites. It’s a telescope, much smaller than the Hubble which is the size of a large room, like a suitcase, rectangular. It looks steadily at specific stars. Its orbit comes close to Vancouver twice a day and the receiver picks up the signal […]
The astrophysicists have been good to me in the past. In ‘96 Professor Lyne at Jodrell Bank let me visit and they turned the telescope for me. A year later, in Chile I visited the Las Campanas observatory. The astrophysicists said it was difficult for them to get the research grants they needed because its […]
I get a bad karma feeling over saying things before I do them, but I’m not from North America and I need good cookie recipes.
Free, as in conversation, doesn’t seem to hold much currency here, so I’m going to try bartering cookies for information.
Maybe I’ll hold a bake-in instead of an introductory talk.
I need funding […]
I started working on an idea back in 2001 that was about opening up a thinking space around satellite technology and for it I would use the ‘real-time’ coordinates of satellites to orchestrate information online.
I was working on a Masters at the Hypermedia Research Centre, Westminster University and with help from the staff there, made […]
I followed a sign to the astronomical observatory and found this:
The Gravity Anomaly Map of Canada.
The people in this building don’t use satellites, they work on the ground. Good for them.
Remote sensing has been here, I can tell. They left their umbrella. They sent an email to say that they wouldn’t be able to help. I phoned a new contact today who said, “I don’t think I’m the right person to talk to”.
I have a new set of links now, but what to do […]
I went in search of the Remote Sensing Group today. I didn’t know if they’d be near each other by a ‘Remore Sensing’ reception desk or scattered about, but someone told me the second floor of ICICS. From there they told me to go to Signal Processing and knock on the frosted glass door. Remote […]
The residency provides a studio and telephone connection, but it’s not really about this, it’s about these words ‘artist-in-residence’. What it is to be an artist in a territory.
The studio is like a satellite of the main UBC campus, a minority, something of an afterthought. Politics. Its an interesting site. It has texture and it’s […]
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