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Old 05-11-2004, 05:27 PM   #1
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5/11/2004: Bird's nest performance art



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.



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.
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Old 05-11-2004, 06:41 PM   #2
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That's one of the most well built nests I've ever seen.
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Old 05-11-2004, 06:45 PM   #3
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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?
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Old 05-11-2004, 07:07 PM   #4
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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!
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Old 05-11-2004, 09:49 PM   #5
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Old 05-12-2004, 01:32 AM   #6
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Re: 5/11/2004: Bird's nest performance art

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In the play, Verdonck tells the story of a man who comes, sees, talks and, in an attempt to embrace his audience, falls.
Does he fall to his gruesome death? Now THAT would be performance art.
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Old 05-12-2004, 02:52 AM   #7
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<EM>> Now THAT would be</EM>

It's not fun and games until someone loses an eye...
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Old 05-12-2004, 08:56 AM   #8
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<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!
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Old 05-12-2004, 11:05 AM   #9
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You lose all sense of scale... I thought the guy was an ActionMan...
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Old 05-12-2004, 11:08 AM   #10
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Whenever I see stuff like this I always wonder who's paying for it.
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Old 05-12-2004, 11:24 AM   #11
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Old 05-12-2004, 11:31 AM   #12
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Yeah! Evidently he's breeding a race of giant killer birds and feeding people to them! And you suckers thought the guy was acting...
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Old 05-12-2004, 11:35 AM   #13
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Cool! I'd pay for it!
Only thing I'm not sure makes it....the pink Village Person head gear.
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Old 05-12-2004, 02:49 PM   #14
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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.
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Old 05-12-2004, 03:51 PM   #15
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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!
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