I’ve been watching this guy off and on now for about twenty minutes, Man In A Box
His name Is Tim Shaw, and he is locked in a box for the next 30 days with a web cam, 2 bucks, a matress somewhere in the UK, there’s a little window in the box where he will be able to receive food as well. It’s a small box, not tall enough to stand up in. Everyday he will get a clue of where he is so that you the viewer may find him and win $30,000.
I wonder at what point he’s going to start losing it, because honestly to be locked in a tiny steel box for thirty days alone. That’s going to be intensely mentally stressful. It is a challenge however, a large challenge and I wonder if it’s something innate within all of us that we wonder if we can stand up and do XYZ. Whether it be locked in a box for thirty days, or go thirty days without smoking, or go thirty days exercising everyday.
I think he’ll need to do something to break up the monotony, he’s doing quite a bit of talking to himself now which is really talking to us the audience and he knows that. I think that will help him a bit, because that is a connection, the feeding times, are a connection. So while being in complete isolation not knowing where he is, he will begin to develop a reliance upon certain aspects of his environment.
I say this with some personal experience of not being in isolation but having lived in Cambodia for two months, it was a strange country and I learned to rely on certain things to bring comfort in the midst of the my culture shock.
I think the other fascinating part of this experiment will be what his brain and body will do in regards to reality around him, because the lines will begin to blur at some point. Listening to his narrative now it’s beginning to happen.