Performance Artist / Great Idiot ?

When will we ever live so close to a media circus performance art event? So, we figured we'd better head down to Lincoln Center to witness the spectacle taking place this past week. Yes, David Blaine is performing his latest stunt just 3 miles south of us. You may remember his last art piece: suspending himself over London inside a plexiglass cube. This time around, he has put himself underwater within a plexiglass sphere. He's also done a 62-hour inside-an-ice-cube stunt. (Is the theme water or plexiglass? I can't tell.) Anyway, we trouped down to 66th Street Saturday to see this event. Incidentally, the Lincoln Center is a conglomerate of buildings which house such artistic endeavours as the NYC Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, Julliard School, and the NY LIbrary for the Performing Arts. Not exactly a low-brow venue! Not that I'm implying that being kept underwater for 7 days straight in a spherical aquarium is low-brow, of course!

So here's a photo of the media craze:


And if you're willing to line up for who-knows-how-long, you can even get right up to the side of the spherical tank and wave and have your picture taken with the world-famous artist himself!



It makes me wonder if I should start doing "performance art"? How about "Lost Canadian in the Big Apple"? Nah, so boring-sounding! Really, though, our lives these last 8 months seem like a perferct reality show. (Except we aren't model gorgeous.) Except that a reality TV show here would have to involve me walking around in ridiculously high designer high heels, white carrying a purse the size of a suitcase, lugging around 7 shopping bags from Bloomingdale's, talking on my cell phone, walking a well-clothed dog, and hailing a yellow cab so that I can be first to be seen at the David Blaine Drowned Alive Exhibit!