5/11/2004: Bird's nest performance art
 

http://cellar.org/2004/birdnestart2.jpg

It's Belgium today, and this artist is performing a one-man stage show on a specially built "nest" 30 metres up a Brussels office block.

http://cellar.org/2004/birdnestart.jpg

Benjamin Verdonck is performing The Great Swallow on his "stage" attached to the Anspach building.

In the play, Verdonck tells the story of a man who comes, sees, talks and, in an attempt to embrace his audience, falls.

That's pretty cool.

That's one of the most well built nests I've ever seen.:thumb:

30m is too low to parachute from.. and I think that if he bungied (budgied? .. hah!) down from that far out from the building that he'd smack into a window pretty hard....

so... uhhh.. ... how does he fall?

Big Mumma Bird
 

I'd like to see the 'owner' of the nest fly down and grab him in her talons and fly off with him screaming!! That would be art!

OK:)

Re: 5/11/2004: Bird's nest performance art
 

Does he fall to his gruesome death? Now THAT would be performance art.

<EM>> Now THAT would be</EM>

It's not fun and games until someone loses an eye...

Then it's a game of Find the Eye! :D

You lose all sense of scale... I thought the guy was an ActionMan...

Whenever I see stuff like this I always wonder who's paying for it.

It's Doctor Evil!

Yeah! Evidently he's breeding a race of giant killer birds and feeding people to them! And you suckers thought the guy was acting...

Cool! I'd pay for it!
Only thing I'm not sure makes it....the pink Village Person head gear.

First thing I thought of when I saw this? If I worked in the office behind the nest, I wouldn't get sh|t done all day!

Of course, if I wasn't at work right now, I'd probably have a different reaction. But then, maybe not! The mind boggles.

Re: 5/11/2004: Bird's nest performance art
 

"Benjamin Verdonck is performing The Great Swallow on his "stage"

Is it the nest of an African Swallow? Inquiring minds want to know!