Escape Vehicle no.6 (chair in space), Simon Faithfull, 2004, [4 min extract]
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Uploaded by simonfaithfull on Nov 17, 2009
Escape Vehicle no.6 presents the journey of a domestic chair from the earth to the edge of space. The film started as a live event in a disused aircraft testing site. The live audience first witnessed the launching of a weather balloon with a domestic chair dangling in beneath it. Once the apparatus had dissapeared into the sky they then watched a live video relay from the weather balloon as it journeyed from the ground to the edge of space (30km up).
Now presented as a video work, the footage shows the chair first rush away from the fields and roads, ascend through clouds and finally (against the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space) begin to disintegrate. The chilling nature of the film is that the empty chair invites the audience to imagine taking a journey to an uninhabitable realm where it is impossible to breath, the temperature is minus 60 below and the sky now resembles the blackness of space.
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Imagine someone sitting on it going up... He would be screaming, trying to hold on, and twirling at a fast speed..lol.. for safety measures.. place Chuck Norris on it.. It will save you money because Chuck Norris doesn't need a spacesuit. Heck, Chuck Norris doesn't even need a chair, or a balloon.
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@ciricognjen More like slice there internal organs so hard there body punctures into the magnetic field of.. eugh i shouldnt go into detail
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So that's where that chair leg came from, which killed my dog.
1 year ago 2
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@GenevaSuspension LOL
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that chair is going to break someones head when it falls
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how did you take this fideo from space
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Pretty lousy airplane....
THIS IS A BRILLIANT VIDEO!!!
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hey its not that far to space lol?,would it fall back to earth or go into space?
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@hellokinsella: I think you'll find the answer in Wikipedia's article "Space Chair", which is about the pair of Toshiba ads.
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This owns.
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It's only a matter of time before someone gets taken out by one of these falling chairs.
GenevaSuspension 2 years ago 28
Did Grey or Toshiba contact you?
hellokinsella 2 years ago 25