Slog - Comments on Leo Berk's Bribe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe Leo Berk's Dark House (2008), drawing in sparkly pen [photographed by Mark Woods] On the morning of September 12, 2001, as the United States descended into a pit of disbelief, Seattle artist Leo Saul Berk happened to be in Guatemala, descending into an ancient Mayan cave. Tourists aren't allowed in, but Berk and some others bribed the guards, who then conducted the tour of the dark, totally disorienting place—a place Berk was unable to get out of his head afterward. Now it's finally come out of his head, and into the Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University. The above drawing... Copyright 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0800 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:05:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by joey it's a really gorgeous piece. i could sit in the gallery with it for hours.

]]> joey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109407 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:29:22 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I wish I could listen to the podcast. Mayan cave systems are fascinating. There are hundreds if not thousands of miles of them (not man-made; they're voids in the Yucatan limestone). There's a really scary map of the underwater cave system at Gran Cenote near Playa Del Carmen in Quintana Roo, Mexico, showing how several of them connect together. People die down there all the time, diving. Having a walkable one must be fascinating.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109479 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:02:09 -0800 Comment by Greg I wish I could figure out some kind of LIDAR-like system for mapping caves. The problem with LIDAR is it's line-of-sight only, and so you'd have to physically move the device in line with every nook and cranny to get a complete map. That, and I think LIDAR uses GPS for locating the device, which obviously wouldn't work in a cave.

Man! This is hard.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109816 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:06:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Greg, you need to strap your doohickey onto a bat and let it do the mapping for you.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109830 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:25:16 -0800 Comment by Greg The problem is, it weighs about half a ton. Easy to strap on a rocket, but not so easy to strap on a backpack or a bat.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109875 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:55:37 -0800 Comment by Greg And of course, by 'rocket' I mean 'airplane or helicopter.' I r dumb.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1109876 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:56:48 -0800 Comment by TAR ART RAT another illegal caving system closer by is Hell Hole, Santa Cruz.

]]> TAR ART RAT http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1110950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/leo_berks_bribe#c1110950 Visual Art Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:05:04 -0800