Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Lone Star Space Bananas

Best space project, ever.

Geostationary Banana Over Texas

From the website:

“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;…”

Be sure to check out the photo gallery. Theres some good pics of cowboys staring off into the horizon, probably wondering “Who put that $%$#’n banana there?”

Everything is bigger in Texas, even the space bananas.

Here is an interview with Montreal-based artist Cesar Saez, the man behind the project.

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