Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? Ummm nope it is a banana. César Saëz, wants to place a geostationary banana over Texas.
The Geostationary Banana Over Texas is an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky.
This mixture of art and engineering will be designed to remain stationary in the skies over our great state. I am for a good laugh, but I was curious to find out why Texas? Parts of the concept statement are harmless enough.
- “I wanted to bring some humor to the Texas sky”
It is banal.
It is Visual.
It is a fiction. It is live 3D. It is surreal.
It is dream-like.
In the land of dreamers and the ones with faith.This is a daring action, defiant like a cowboy act.
Wow “defiant cowboy act”. Yes I can agree with that. The noble cowboy. Yes the vision of a banana floating high above our Texas does bring a John Waynesgue vision to my mind. Oh-Oh. Wait a minute. Read further.
- bananas do not grow in Texas”.
This intervention has irony.
Like the paradox about localized actions with global dimensions.This is a daring action, defiant like a cowboy act.
And the banana is macho and phallic, they say.It is in Texas because it has oil,
and a lot of Walmarts, Exxons and Halliburtons. (and The Ranch)It is a buffoon act, trying to impress…
Texan dominant Aerospace, and all the Gun Clubs.
All of the sudden this does not seems so funny. Who is César Saëz anyway?
César Saëz works, for the most part, consist in art-interventions in public spaces. These are sculptures, installations, or actions performed in a public domain, be it a street corner, a public square or a park. These urban interventions try to address the public and their social interaction in reference to that space. More specifically, they question the symbolism, or the politics in that space.
Nope, I do not find this funny at all. I really do not care to see a flying banana in my Texas sky and now that I understand the obvious political statement, even more so. Hey César, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS.
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Geostationary orbit is about 22,000 miles up, if I remember correctly.
That means the banana would either have to be big enough to be seen 22,000 miles away… Like 10 times the distance of Houston to Los Angeles, or else it would need to be powered to hold its position, or else be naturally bouyant (lighter than air), yet tethered to the ground to prohibit lateral movement.
In addition, it would have to be high enough to be seen by both Orange and El Paso and Beeville and Amarillo.
I’m thinking that whoever wrote this article wasted good time talking to and about a biased idiot who just wanted to say something bad about Texas.
yep. another fruit.
How do people have time for that? If its fake, that is a lot of wasted time on a website. If its real, that is a ridiculous use of time and resources. The only true ‘cowboy act’ would be to shoot that thing down.
Another fruit alright! However I am beginning to think we have more of a banana republic gov’t than we would like admit sometimes.
O.K., I read this earlier, but had no comment. I think #3 said it best for me!
Target practice, yeeeeahhh!
Should someone let this fruitcake know that nothing can be geostationary over something that’s not on the equator?
The nutjob is French Canadian…..’nough said!
And if Atlas slipped on the banana it could be the end of the world.
If I see a banana in the sky, I will be watching for a chimp on a parachute.
Uuuuh, you can’t do geosynchroneous orbit over Texas. Without going into the physics of it, geosynchroneous orbits can only be done over the equator. The best you can do at other lattitudes is have a satellite that moves back and forth between equal northern and southern lattitudes, every twentyfour hours, while remaining over the same line of longitude. I wouldn’t expect such an “artist” to know that though.
If we can work out the physics, maybe we can fly a giant… um… phallic sexual aid over the head of the artist, for the OPPOSITE reason: Namely, that it is totally in accord with his values and politics.
I think it would be more poetic to float a giant buffalo bagel over Massachusetts.