Just what the world needs - a 1000' long banana floating over Texas
But apparently it might happen. A Canadian of Argentinean origin has cooked up a scheme to create the banana-shaped balloon, launch it from Mexico, and have it float in a near geostationery orbit over the Lone Star state for upwards of a month before it disintegrates.
This little exercise in neo-Situationist art is being part funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, although perhaps mercifully the project is only one eighth of the way to full funding.
For all of the artist's huffing and puffing about having a 'legal team...already at work...[and being ready] to respond to any hostile moves by the U.S. military', I do not fancy the object's chances of lasting very long.
This little exercise in neo-Situationist art is being part funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, although perhaps mercifully the project is only one eighth of the way to full funding.
For all of the artist's huffing and puffing about having a 'legal team...already at work...[and being ready] to respond to any hostile moves by the U.S. military', I do not fancy the object's chances of lasting very long.
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You know I think I`d rather see enormous fruit shaped objects floating around that layers of governemnt with no purpose. Its a waste of money of course but far far better than most.
Could we perhaps replace the GLA with a gigantic floating replica of ...me .I would enjoy it so that one satisfied customer.
See ;progress already
Tempting target
Its Texas for f***s sake 50% of the population will already be combing the page of guns&ammo magazine for
"the ultimate balloon stopper"
Never seen 'New York Stories' N? I fear that Mr N jr and Mrs N might be a tad embarassed.
And I too forsee an awful of ammunition being directed at it.
newmania, didn't Pink Floyd use a gigantic replica of you floating above London on one of their album covers?
Another cause for locking'n'loading
If the good folk of "gunfree" manchester can find the tools to shoot the huge inflatable santa that bestrides the town hall every christmas no doubt the Texans have few tricks up their sleeves
Thirty seconds. Actually, I don't think it would make it across the Rio Grande.
If it's being funded by Canada, why don't they have it foating over Quebec. In my experience, the French love that sort of pretentious rubbish.
Trust me, there will be thousands of pick-ups lined up along the Rio Grande, every one of them with a gun rack and a dog in the back, along with a beer cooler and snacks. The border patrol will drive along the rows of pick-ups with hailers warning people not to shoot while the balloon is still in Mexico "Do not shoot the balloon until it has traversed the Rio Grande. Hold off shooting the balloon until it is on the US side of the river."
God! To be there! What fun! Texans love things like this. They're, by and large, a good-humoured bunch. They like to have fun.
Unlike pretentious Argeninian Canadians. Why do I get the feeling that the Argentinian lives in Quebec?
The Border Patrol will probably organise dedicated parking for the balloon shoot and charge for it. Capitalism works.
newmania, didn't Pink Floyd use a gigantic replica of you floating above London on one of their album covers?
Yes they did Nick suspended between the towers of battersea Power Station.Don`t know much about Pink Floyd excepot they wrote JHL`s theme song "Be careful with that axe Eugene"
and I`ve got dark side of the moon
JHL's "theme song"! Ha ha ha! That would be a good thread!
Yup, the 'artist' hails from Montreal....
(Pats self on back.)
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