(photo: Farming in Nevada, credit: Michael Eckblad)

Click through below for some beautiful shots of Station Identification on top of the Foshay Tower during last week’s Northern Spark festival! Video to come…
Station Identification (via The Notion Collective’s flickr stream)
The first view of the Station Identification when stepping out onto the observation deck. Here now, at the end of the night, visitors await the sunrise.
Great writeup of Northern Spark by Peter at Cubicle Cafe. Looks like a wonderful night, wish we could’ve made it to the rest of the events!
My night started out on the Mississippi Megalops, a project of Works Progress. The river ride was one of the highlights of the night. Learning about the river, and seeing sunset over St. Paul.
After the ride we headed over to see Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light. This actually looked really neat coming in on the boat ride, you could actually see the silhouettes of the folks walking across the array.
From this point on till dawn, I don’t have a lot of photos. I feel like we just missed a lot of things (like food at food carts, performances, unannounced bus stops), and a lot more things just weren’t tested well before the night of and didn’t work out. I wish I remembered to take a picture of the Sperm & Egg creations, an interactive game, there could have been more interactive activities. Crazy, glow stick capture the flag in Loring Park, with a burning trash can bonfire was nice, and Dianne Willow’s glowing plankton were pretty as well.
The best came at the end of the night, visiting the Notion Collective’s Station Identification. The sea of noise created by their many radios, the delirious participants, some drunk or just tired, and sun rise over Minneapolis was a great way to end the night.
It’s been a long weekend at the Notion office/studio/lab/radio factory. 21 radios, ready for the Foshay! If you’re in Minneapolis this weekend, be sure to stop by and have a look, and if you’re not then tune in online.
It’s a radio factory in here today! That’s some Greenpoint radio flavor you’re hearing in this clip — Polish pop? 22 radios to disassemble and rebuild this weekend for Station Identification. (Photos here)

One week left to submit your audio idea to be broadcast from the Foshay!
Northern Spark approaches quickly, and we’re still seeking audio submissions for Station Identification, our one-night project on the observation deck of the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, MN. We’ll be broadcasting live all night from 9pm June 4th to 6am June 5th, so we’ve got plenty of air time to fill. Some ideas:
The deadline is in one week (Monday, May 30th). See the call for submissions for more info, or email your idea to “notioncollective” at gmail.
(photo: Daytime view from the Foshay observation deck by Jennifer Arave)

Check it: we’ll be presenting at Minneapolis’s 2011 Nuit Blanche, ”Northern Spark” this coming June 4-5! Our piece “Station Identification” will invite visitors to the nighttime skyline view from the top of the Foshay Tower! It’s all about listening, seeing and broadcasting from the open air observation deck. We’ll be there all night, it’s gonna rock(!), and you should all come join us!