Hasta La Ideas

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pa href=”http://www.andrewfriend.co.uk/disappearing(ats.html”The Device for Disappearing at Sea/a is a floating hiding place, meant to produce a total isolation that can seldom be experienced on land. A sunken, one-person chasm is surrounded by a floating fiberglass ring. Once inside, it’s just you, the sky and the sun. Don’t worry, there is a rope that leads out of the sinkholemdash;this is intended for a safe and temporary disappearance only. When you’re done being alone, just climb out and swim it right on back to shore./p

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pThe project is part of Fantastic, a larger series of devices by a href=”http://www.andrewfriend.co.uk”Andrew Friend/a that debuted last night at the opening of the Royal College of Art Design Thesis Show in the Design Interactions section. The project is about creating products to help people experience something fantastic, like disappearance, lightning strike (pictured below), and invisible electromagnetic forces. /p

pWe like this series because it proposes new, very direct ways that humans can experience the world. There’s no denying that these products are dangerous, but so are motorcycling and sky-diving. These, though, aren’t about sport. They could have been dreamed up by Werner Herzog: deliberate, in search of the sublime, and totally at the mercy of the terrifying forces of the environment, almost to the point of mysticism. /p

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