I'm really losing it now... some chap called Martin John Callanan "befriended" me on facebook the other day. I didn't recognise the name and we didn't have any "friends in common" so I figure he must be someone I was chatting to in the Cornerhouse or somesuch. A few more clicks and it became apparent that he is some crazy multimedia artist type and happens to be involved in a thing called the Velocity Festival based at Folly Pictures in Lancaster (where I used to hang out) and has been taking photographs of Morecambe Bay in some kind of interactive GPS-tracked SMS-influenced way and that this would all be visible from the "Map room" on platform 3 of Lancaster Station. His facebook status is currently "Martin is okay" a missive he has been repeating periodically for the last few weeks. What if Martin is not okay? What happens then? What if he's got a cold or something? Anyway I still am not quite sure who he is...

Attacked by animated cranes at Lancaster Station

By the time I was next passing through Lancaster he was long gone leaving in his wake only a strange exhibit where little animated origami cranes chase your moving image through a virtual space making little plinky sounds as they go. Nothing to do with Martin but still pretty strange. If you've got a mac (preferably with a camera) the software involved is free to download.

One of Martin's from his travels round the bay

Update: Mark seems to have disappeared from Facebook. I wonder where he went...