Thinking out of the Box
Boxed in. Man In Box still has – perhaps – five days left in his box. He could be there for 30 nights in total, together with £30,000. He doesn’t know where he is, but he’s been told his location is ‘meaningful’ to him. You can keep Man In Box company courtesy of live streams from two cameras, and listen to him recount all the places he has been to over the past 35 years.
And you can take a shot at guessing where the box is. Get it right and you win the cash. And Man In A Box – TV personality Tim Shaw – goes free.
What’s it all about?
“It is not about making money,” the organisers say. “It is an experiment that links solitary confinement with social networking. Observing how a human being behaves for a period of a month in a world of total isolation. One-way traffic. You can see and hear his every move, however no one can communicate with him. …
“As you build up a picture of his life you can send guesses of his location through the map facility on a uniquely designed Google Maps application. If your coordinates are correct, you receive 30 thousand pounds cash, the door lights turn green and he is released.”
See Man In Box here.
All proceeds go to UK wounded soldier charity Help For Heroes.
And David Blaine ponders on why he wasn’t asked to sit in that box…
