Although this may not have anything to do with photography I found it quite humorous none the less.
The Geostationary Banana Over Texas project hopes to put a giant banana over Texas.
The artist behind the Banana Over Texas work is César Saez. Saez plans to put the banana between the high atmosphere and earth's lower orbit for about one month. It will be visible to Texans with the naked eye, day and night.
As stated on the website: the banana will be constructed like a blimp. Filled with helium, it will float between 30 and 50 km up in the sky. I will have a semi-rigid structure made of bamboo and a skin made with synthetic paper. Thanks to an extra load in gas and a valve system, it will keep its shape at all times. The final size of the piece will be 300 meters in length.
They were suppose to launch this thing in August 2008 but sounds like they ran into issues with funding of course.
Everything is bigger in Texas.. even the giant bananas floating in the sky.
1 comment:
that is pretty impressive! Reminds me of "spiral jetty" and a number of other earthworks. But it makes me wonder if it will be viewable from space/google earth...
If you put "spiral jetty" into googlemaps/google earth it takes you right there. these large scale projects are incredibly inspiring
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