DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
• A French artist recently spent a week living inside a hollowed out, 12 tonne boulder, in a piece of performance art at a Paris museum. Artist Abraham Poincheval, who had an emergency phone line inside and survived on dried meat and soup and drank water (as well as using an air vent), emerged last week to say that he had moments in which he lost a sense of where he was and was a little dazed but it was a “great” experience. It’s not the first time the artist has headed for enclosed spaces – he did the same in 2014 when he spent 13 days inside a hollowed out bear sculpture eating worms and beetles and he’s also spent a week inside a giant bottle. His next project is to spend three or four weeks sitting on top of a dozen eggs in the hope they will hatch.
Not the actual bouquet – but good enough for a selfie surely? PICTURE: Marie Jeanne Iliescu/www.freeimages.com.
• International Women’s Day in Russia apparently means women are feted with flowers – and, of course, that means the obligatory selfie with bouquet in hand to be posted on social media. But for those women who didn’t receive any, enterprising flower vendors were reportedly offering women the chance to hire a massive bouquet for 10 minutes – just long enough for a selfie – so that everyone will think they did. There’s some speculation whether the trend was ‘fake news’ but at least one vendor insisted the service was real. All sounds a little sad.
• The world’s smallest mobile nightclub – not much more than photo booth size – opened at an English festival recently. Awarded the official Guinness World Record, ‘Club 28’ stands just over two metres high, is almost a metre wide and 1.5 metres deep and features a professional sound system with two turntables, dance floor and enough capacity for six as well as a DJ. It even has bouncers on the door. Sounds squashy.
