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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Synecdoche New York give-away. Congratulations go to commenter kevic, also known as Kevin Clement of Into the Loop, whose speculative space submission won your hearts and minds and wins him a Synechdoche, New York Blu-ray. Read Kevin’s full, mind-boggling, impossibly sublime, reality-bending submission after the jump!

“Imagine one of those huge dirigible hangers from the 30s. That would be my work space, and it would have two entrances. All of the material comes in from the front entrance and the rear entrance is sealed shut (this is important). What I would build: Imagine a giant, series of hot-air balloons. A mishmash of irregularly shaped balloons that heave and hiss. They expand and contract at different intervals and are contained by a patchwork of stretched steel struts. Miles of tubular duct-work, piping and valves link them together… a patchwork of vains and arteries. I would build a giant labarinthian set of spaces inside, filled with hydroponic gardens, smokey bars (with lots of chrome and juke boxes), endless hallways with Victorian era paintings and crownmolding, and small rooms in the flavor of Corbusier’s La Tourrette. Finally, I would populate it with all the lost souls of everyone’s favorite stories — Melville’s Captian Ahab meets Wilder’s Norma Desmond meets X-man’s Gambit. I would have cameras installed at odd angles throughout the station and a mixer that randomly patches different shots of the inhabitents together and then shoots the compilations out as movies via strong broadcasting antennas.

Once I was done, I would open up the other huge door, to reveal that it leads to Venus. The whole thing will float, since the mixture of air we breath is lighter than the air on Venus. A floating, giant mechanized heart that beats against the orange Venusian sky and broadcasts an infinite array of movies that mimic the claustrophic / romantic style of Wong Kar Wei and Christipher Doyle across the galaxy. The fictionalized heart-broken finding true love on Venus. I’m thinking Retro-Ovid here.

I would do it because it would be the coolest reality TV show ever; way better than the Bachelor even.”