John Brownlee

Geostationary Banana Over Texas

It’s all well and good until a gigantic flaming banana comes hurtling down out of the sky to vaporize the chattering natives of Dallas. Then it’s a Roger Corman movie… The Geostationary Banana Over Texas is an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky. This object will float between the […]

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It's all well and good until a gigantic flaming banana comes hurtling down out of the sky to vaporize the chattering natives of Dallas. Then it's a Roger Corman movie...

The Geostationary Banana Over Texas is an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky. This object will float between the high atmosphere and Earth's low orbit, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings. From the ground the banana will be clearly recognizable and visible day and night; it will stay up for approximately one month.

The proposed launch date is August 2008; the cost is a meager one million dollars. The artists behind the Geostationary Banana Over Texas project swear that there are no laws against orbiting a gigantic banana, but obviously this is exactly the sort of thing that will be the catalyst for some jowly and apoplectic politician to joylessly propose one.

What this means for ToM: we really need to get our own Geostationary VaginaDentata Over Washington project off the ground, before anti-satellite legislation kicks in.

Geostationary Banana Over Texas [Official Site] (Be sure to check out the videos!)