Week 21 Results

An Empty Room

A room where you can read under the scrutiny of a giant eyeball?

Details:

In the first room ... well it is completely empty. No stimulation - just all white walls and floors. Not even flourescent lights to look at on the ceiling. The room's not dark, it's just lit through other means, I will not go into detail
The second room is the same kind of room ... and you are allowed to have any book you want to read! BUT in addition there is a giant eyeball (Ever been to Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC? It's that size! If not then just imagine one about 10 feet in diameter.) It is always staring at you and whenever it blinks it makes a loud, wet, squishy sound. While you are allowed to have any book you want, you can only have ONE BOOK AT A TIME! You can't make a stack of books to block out the eyeball! Nice try!

Name: David M.
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: I think I read where some really demented scientists found that people will literally go crazy if they're left in an environment with no sensory experiences. I'd be willing to put up with being watched by a giant eyeball so I could curl up with a good book. (I've been meaning to catch up with my reading since 7th grade!) Besides, wouldn't it be fun to play with the eyeball? I mean you could do the the "follow my index finger"trick or the Three Stooges poke-in-the-eye. (Classic comedy!)

Name: Joe Hilton
Choice: Empty Room
Comments: Well as much as i like eyeballs, i couldnt be watched all day everyday. Id rather sing to myself.

Name: jean jean jean
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: You know, with all the time I've been spending in the gymnasium-sized room, I'm beginning to feel a bond with it. I'm thinking about making this my job. So, with this in mind, I'd have to go with the big eyeball, because what kind of a tale would the empty room be to tell the grandkids? I can just hear it now, "Do you remember the time when I just sat in an emtpy room? Yep, them was the days." Somehow I feel kind toward the eyeball. I bet it doesn't have many friends. I could read out loud to it. But would I drown if I made it cry????? Maybe the empty room is better afterall...

Name: DEV
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: Hey, a giant eyeball is good company man. As for the book i would take one of my faves, catcher in the rye. Good stuff

Name: Taylor (Cleophus T Jenkins)
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: Well you see Kevin I don't know much about this eyeball here. Does it roll around? Exactly what muscles controls these lids? Would I get hurt if I tried to hurt the eye? Either way, I never really cared that much whether people stare at me, even if they do it bug eyed. So it would stand to reason that the books would be the best option. Books are fun!!! By the way, I'm assuming here that I can have those neat-o pop-up books, I can can't I Kevin? What about Dr. Seuss, huh huh huh?

Name: Steven Pilker
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: i would go with the eyeball, for eyebvious reasons

Name: Wheels
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: Well this is a hum dinger of a choice. As much as I love my alone time and as much as i feel that my imagination could work in my favor in the Empty room. And as much as I hate having people watch as I work or write or read I feel that I fear "death by lack of stimulation" more. That's exactly why we don't have as many asylums anymore.

Name: Louie A. Decena Jr.
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: I mean, it's just an eyeball. I could always poke it out with my book of choice or I'll paper cut it to death. I like the book idea!! There is no room, is that air you're breathing? The eyeball does not exist. It's merely just a computer program designed to bug the crude out of me. I tell you the truth, the matrix has you! I'll write more later!

Name: Allison
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: Ok, first of all, for people like me who get very bored when there's nothing to do, the empty room would be torture. I would probably start bouncing off the walls in, say, five minutes! But the room with the eyeball would be ok. Yeah, it might freak me out at first, but after a while, the eye could kinda become your friend. I could keep myself occupied reading the books, and maybe I could encourage the eyeball to read along with me, you know, so we can debate about the literary worth of the books. And as for the squishing noise, that's probably something you could tune out. Kinda like elevator music, but...not.

Name: joe "I'm almost" slack
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: I would take the Bible and get totally engrossed and it wouldn't bother me. Short and simple, I'm sorry! Next time I'll be witty

Name: Ashley Dorn aka unregistered nurse
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: I would go crazy with nothing to do.

Name: Amy Ross
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: Because even a huge eyeball is some kinda company and maybe over time you could teach it to talk and then you could become friends with it and talk about the lastest book.

Name: Kevin
Choice: Eyeball
Comments: Because it seems the popular thing to do