TRADESMAN MOVES TO BEST DAVID BLAINE !
The courageous installateur seen here, practicing his trade under the most daunting circumstances, is a man who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of things. A wealthy jewelry merchant in Queens, New York, flatters his senses athwart a very public privy he's had set for himself on a pedestal in his considerable yard. A throne, indeed. The local realtors are certain it adds value to the adjacent properties. Depending upon what the installateur discovers, it may also add free nitrogen, a tasty portion for the bacterial fixers of same, abiding in the good black soil.
The jeweler, it seems, is one of the increasingly rare nobility - men who take pride in their work. In their works, anyway. These are the spiritual and intellectual =>
His scientific mission: to precisely weigh all of the food and liquid he consumed as well as the “sensible discharges” excreted by his body. Subtracting one from the other, he was able to calculate his “insensible perspiration,” the weight lost through the pores and during respiration. By taking measurements while fasting, Sanctorius determined that the average invisible excretion over the course of a day was 1.25kg — greater than the total loss through the more malodorous visible excretions. This ingenious experiment layed the foundation for the science of metabolism and the proud tradition of scientific self-experimentation."
