David Blaine: Drowned Alive? Part II
Posted By Paul Kotik on 2 May 2006
19:00 EDT MONDAY MAY 1, 2006 - NEW YORK CITY
By midmorning a crowd of a hundred or so spectators had gathered on Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza, peering at the crystalline sphere.
Lincoln Center is arguably the epicenter of high culture on planet Earth, and today New Yorkers awoke to find this unearthly artifact gazing impassively back at them as they bustled down Columbus Avenue and along Broadway. They looked a lot like the cavemen in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The sphere is a fine postmodern monolith. No sharp corners, and its translucence offers up charming distortions of everything seen through it. It’s like nothing so much as a giant eyeball, giving you back your world but fish-eyed and upside down. The press was herded into the media corral, tagged with green bracelets and cordoned off from lesser humans. This had to be real news, by New York standards: there were more spectators than reporters.
The various crew departments were in full ordered chaos, each in its domain. Network and talent PR flacks a-flacking, sparkies sparking, sound men testing one, two three. The Performance Freediving trio ( Kirk Krack, Martin Stepanek and Mandy-Rae Cruickshank) are decked out in tastefully-logo’d team apparel, and are very much enjoying the very cool walkie-talkies laid on by the production people.
Copyright 2006 Paul Kotik/DeeperBlue.net
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