Sunday, September 16, 2007
Artist will send 300 meter banana 50km above the earth
Boing Boing: "Montreal artist Cesar Saez is making a giant, helium filled banana that he intends to launch in Texas, sending it 20-30 miles up. The title of the project is 'Geostationary Banana Over Texas.'"
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WHAT?! WHY?!
I just think this is absolutely hilarious. The fact that an artist decided to shoot something into space is one thing, but to replicate a 300 meter banana seems a little nonsensical. Whatever, all the power to him. Art is all about creating and evolving for your audiences reactions. I'm sure this will receive a rather interesting reaction!
Will it glow? I really want it to glow. A banana moon. My favorite is the paint job on the banana. They went far enough to not only make it massive, yellow, and correctly shaped, but they also made it look like the bananas that have been sitting on your kitchen counter. I should send this to my relatives back home and tell them to go find the banana!
After googling a little more I was impressed to find reasons behind this project other than "why not?". I think too many artists get away with empty statements on shock value alone, and I'm glad he is trying to imbue some kind of statement.
I give it a month before Dole uses it for publicity in some way.
What? I understand the whole art is art and you have to know art to appreciate art but what? Did this guy get kicked out of NASA or something. Or whatever Canada's equivalent of NASA is actually. Come on if releasing things into the atmosphere is art then I suppose we should call every factory, car manufacturer, and person on the planet an artist. Sorry for the pun but this guy is bananas.
Why? Why send a banana into space, and why Texas? The artist doesn’t really seem concerned that his banana may not make it to a point where it will burn up on the way down. It would be rather bad if the pockets of helium started to leak immediately and at about 500 ft. started to fall. I can see a giant banana causing a three lain pile up on a highway as it crashes to the ground.
bananas eh?
anyone ever seen austin powers, the spy who shagged me, where at the end dr evil leaves on a spaceship shaped like a penis? yeah, there's something strangely phallic about this whole thing. Or maybe it's just one man's attempt to re-establish the sexist belief of man's superiority by putting a 300 meter yellow phallic symbol in space. Problem is, he re-established the stupidity of men. Yes, we are pretty stupid guys, let's just admit it. At least we won't feel BAD about putting this banana in space. Power to him. It takes some serious balls to put a yellow penis in space. maybe this man is compensating for something? but then again, everything IS bigger in texas...
HA HA! That will be cool for about a month....at the most. The paint job is great and if it glows even better, but in the end it would get tiring to try to look a beautiful night sky and have a gaint banana blocking your view.
Well this will certainly be interesting to see when I get home (providing it last until a time I can see it). I wonder where exactly in Texas it will be, as it is a fairly large place and all...hhmmmm...I'm rather curious as to what the artist believes the relevance of this is, other than you can look up to the sky when the moon is rather orange and have a little bit of a chuckle.
So i havan't gotten a chance to look this up, but has there not been any remark from environmentalists about a 300m anything man made being put in the air? Seems like it could be the spark for a lot of problems if/when something goes wrong.
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