Ch'ch storm chasers, your chance to be on TV3

[jeffsweather]

I received a request today from Sonja de Friez who wants "anyone who is very passionate about lightning" and I assume the storms that go with it.
She would like someone to talk to her about it - science/facts/beatuy/danger etc.

This is for Campell Live and is related to a story they are doing on Jim Mackay - the glass artist who's using lightning.
Anyone who is interested can contact [email protected]
or 027 22 22 160

A bit of background on Jim Mackay from the NZ Herald

12 January 2005
Nelson glass artist and sculptor Jim Mackay has left for the Galena Ridge on the West Coast in an attempt to make glass from lightning.

He has received $9500 from Creative New Zealand towards the Fingers of God project, which he estimates will cost at least $15,000.

Mackay will build six plywood towers. Nelson artist Andrea Chandler has crocheted copper forms to sit in PVC tubes inside two of the towers.

Helium-filled weather balloons will lift 120m lengths of electric fence wire from the tubes, which will be filled with selected minerals to promote the creation of fulgurites (glass made when lightning hits the ground).