Comments on: Man Nesting in a Rotterdam Tower

By: sam gueydan

sam gueydan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:04:18 +0000

how is this any difrent than David Blain being suspended in a glass box for 3 weeks in central park?

or any of the other stupid stunts some "artists" do

By: t'mara

t'mara — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:00:47 +0000

shouldn't there be a woman in the nest? last time i checked no man ever laid an egg, or hatched one either.

By: rickie

rickie — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:32:15 +0000

Nutcase

By: ptitz

ptitz — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:26:11 +0000

hahahah, me and my friends spotted that thing on a building a week ago or so! that was so weird! especially since all of us pass by that place at least a few times a week and didnt notice it! NOW that i know what it is im gona act smart and tell everyone.

By: SparkS

SparkS — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:52:13 +0000

Thanks Alex I think I finally figured it out.
Had me going there for a little while.

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:16:40 +0000

So that's what that is. I was there Sunday and walked by this and couldn't figure out what it might have been. You see all sorts of odd things in Netherlands though, so I didn't really think too hard about it. There's a UFO crashed into a building here in Utrecht and when I was living in Amersfoort there was a big white fish in a tree.

By: Ariane

Ariane — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:14:45 +0000

Not fake. He was on the Rotunda in Birmingham a few years ago. He didn't just sit there either. Sometimes he would dance and lean over the edge. Sometimes he would immitate birdsong. Crazy and all I quite liked it.

By: Ari

Ari — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:11:22 +0000

It isn't a fake. He was in Birmingham UK a few years ago and I saw him in person. It was quite entertaining. At some times he would play birdsong and while standing he would lean over the edge of nest and do a weird dance. I'm not one for modern art but I like this dude.

By: Archbob

Archbob — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:12:28 +0000

That is just some crazy stuff!

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:37:50 +0000

No respect whatsoever for building codes. Tsss.

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:40:23 +0000

I was listening to Edith Piaf while watching the youtube video for this artistic nesting... so fitting. When the bystander lowered their arms the song stopped. She was "sparrow". It fit. I think you can put her singing behind anything and make it better though. I have yet to do it to a Bush speech...

By: roger

roger — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:35:16 +0000

I wonder if he poops on passerby for realism

By: ted

ted — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:56:51 +0000

Just watched the video. Dink has some sort of bracing system holding him in. So, he flails his arms around, and looks all precarious, but he's fine.
The people on the street should roll away his damn egg.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:36:47 +0000

It's right in front of a window, probably very secure.

Dink.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:05:00 +0000

I see your new avatar, SparkS - maybe it was a cache related issue.

By: Lore

Lore — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:49:37 +0000

WTF?!! I don't even know what to think.

By: Q

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:31:55 +0000

I've seen this guy in action when he 'nested' for a week on the Rotunda tower in Birmingham, UK! He's Belgian and I seem to remember from the news coverage at the time (as some were concerned about the safety aspect) the 'nest' is actually a metal cage with twigs and vegetation entwined about it to give it some authenticity.

By: SparkS

SparkS — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:08 +0000

This is a test.

RYRYRYRY

Do not read this.

TEST

(my new avatar isn't showing up.)

By: SparkS

SparkS — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:56:58 +0000

Perhaps he'll be taking his first flight sooner than expected.

By: oakling

oakling — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:55:09 +0000

maybe stuff is meant to be falling off of it to be more realistic?
freaking awesome, anyway.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:37:40 +0000

It doesn't look very sturdy at all. Nor well constructed as you can tell from the picture stuff is falling off of it.

By: SparkS

SparkS — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:31:53 +0000

Contrary to what the headline says it seems to me he and his nest are ON the tower not IN it. I don't think it's fake. He's simply a nutso Hollander. I hope someone takes a movie when he takes his first flight. If he makes it he'll truly be "De Vliegende Hollander". GGGGGGGG

By: bean

bean — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:07:04 +0000

Oh, and according to google translate, here's his official mission:

"A seven day, 24 hour long theatrical moving 50 meters above the Weena unfolds in Rotterdam that tragic course of a man who comes and sees his listeners in an attempt to arms to fall."

Based on what I could make out of some of the other pages, this is day four. He may be trying to make a point about people polluting and overcrowding the planet, or companies like Unilever endangering animals and indigenous people.

It sort of ends with him talking about becoming strong for his last battle, and then pussying out.

By: bean

bean — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:43:39 +0000

This is well within the range of normal for the Netherlands. Some Americans would be shocked by some of the art that used to be displayed at Schiphol.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:36:55 +0000

No way.. That has to be fake.