Jan 22 2009Get Away From The World And Die Alone And Miserably In The 'Generic Escape Capsule'

'The Generic Escape Capsule' was fashioned by Australian artist Adam Norton out of an old wardrobe after he discovered it wouldn't transport him to a magical land where he could f*** lions and witches and goat-people. Basically, Adam included everything a person would need to survive a couple days away from the world, should one get tired of their nagging wife/girlfriend or get buried in an earthquake. Plus, as a bonus, it doubles as a masturbation chamber. Triples as kindling.
Hit the jump for a close up of the last thing you'll see before you decide it's just not worth living anymore.

'Generic Escape Capsule' May Be the Saddest Thing I've Ever Seen [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. Jessica - January 22, 2009 10:34 PM
What the heck. ._o
2. JK - January 22, 2009 10:37 PM
perfect the the uber WoW nerd! ...it DOES have an internet connection, right?
3. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 22, 2009 10:41 PM
I used to do this too....except I called it climbing into my toybox....and I was 6.....except there was no pooping into a bucket involved.
4. Famous Television Actor - January 22, 2009 10:46 PM
Line it with lead and I will take one. Is there a can of air freshener in there for the massive dumps I will drop?
I am not a bomb shelter expert, I just play one on T.V.
5. Boost - January 22, 2009 10:55 PM
If this was made of steel and it was underground, then it might be cool.
This is just depressing. If getting away from the world means sitting in a closet for 3 days I think you seriously need to reexamine your life.
The poop bucket is funny though.
6. JK - January 22, 2009 11:25 PM
Maybe they need to come OUT of the closet...not go in it.
7. Hunter - January 22, 2009 11:26 PM
thanks but no thanks
8. hugegirl - January 22, 2009 11:43 PM
Do they make these for fat people.
9. Erik - January 22, 2009 11:48 PM
The latrine is WAY to close to the kitchen/everything else. Plus its gonna smell hella bad in there after you crap.
10. Dr.Known - January 22, 2009 11:49 PM
What the f*** it this?!? I come down here all drunk & ready for action and there's a new GW post WTF f***ers... f*** YOU ALL BITCHES WAAAAH!
11. NekoNeko - January 22, 2009 11:54 PM
One of the art students at my college did something similar to this, but their was just a suicide capsule. Lots of people hated it so I made sure to come by and look at it every day and laugh at the people who found it offensive.
12. someone - January 23, 2009 12:03 AM
Look out! A raping grandpa!
13. Jerry - January 23, 2009 12:16 AM
I can't wait for Daisy's Never Back Down post!
14. Thumperchica - January 23, 2009 12:50 AM
I thought all you needed to "get away" from the world for a few days was a few bottles of Jack Daniels and a pool table, at least it would be more bearable than sitting on a makeshift john in the wardrobe, land of spare oom...
15. teh drunk - January 23, 2009 1:26 AM
I thiught yiou needed to GET AWay FRom MY assss BECAUse IYM DrUUNNK faRGNAMETS GEEOLGKOLGOIE FOREWEVEEER!!11!!!!111
16. Over it - January 23, 2009 1:46 AM
@13... I can
17. softlicious - January 23, 2009 4:03 AM
Adam Norton must have a really depressing life, perhaps he married a bitch or something:
Wife: What's a Wii? I gave that box away to some girl who wanted to make a dolls house. She needed two more walls to her house and now her dad is helping her saw the "wii", whatever that is, into two parts.
Adam Norton: I'll be in my box!
18. I'm typing from an on screen keyboard - January 23, 2009 4:28 AM
wtf! i feel kinda lazy.
but i dont have the patience. sersiously ewat the f***!
19. DJ Tyrannosaur - January 23, 2009 4:41 AM
It's got a spoon and everything!
20. softlicious - January 23, 2009 6:34 AM
Feces!
This post is totally about feces, you can see that because the shit bucket doesn't have any shadow's. It's a total photoshop job.
This is exactly like in that movie Never Drop Shit where Max and Baja locked themselfs inside a closet to take a dump because the line to the men's room was too long. Later Max discovered that the closet was designed by Adam Norton, a desperate guy who was hiding from his wife who didn't even understand what a Wii was and gave it away to the neighbour's daughter who was building a dolls house.
21. Daisy - January 23, 2009 6:37 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job, You can tell its a fake because the shadows are al wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max lets homeless guy get him coffee, later this homeless guy asks to spend the night at Max's place, so max lets him room in exchange for helping out at work. Eventually they clean out a closet, and that becomes the homeless guy's room.
22. softlicious - January 23, 2009 8:01 AM
Good morning Daisy, I was waiting for you to wake up!
When Adam Northon is hiding in that closet he really has everything, a saucepan and a fryingpan to cook some food. A few good books to read and even a shit bucket so that he can take a dump when he decides to go. Notice that he even has TP to wipe his butt, imagine trying to stand up in that closet to wipe yourself without touching your breakfast with your shitty hands. Anyway in that closet Adam Northon has everything but a life. It is a known fact that the sole reason Adam Northon is hiding in that closet is because his wife gave his Wii away to some twerp building a dolls house.
23. lo0ken - January 23, 2009 8:24 AM
I f***in Need this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24. Timbo - January 23, 2009 8:43 AM
At least make a hole in floor floor so the dump can fall OUT or the wardrobe/isolation chamber/I hate my life box...
25. Timbo - January 23, 2009 8:45 AM
Maybe a battery powered exhaust fan??
That's just me though...I like to think outside the wooden box
26. catch22 - January 23, 2009 8:57 AM
meh
27. softlicious - January 23, 2009 9:00 AM
Hurray environmentalism!
I always thought environmentalists were stupid f***ing fags. But now I see how genius it is. This is in fact a swamp gas station that is made to power new green cars, this is how it works: You take a pathetic lowlife liberal dipshit environmentalist and put him or her in the closet, then you feed them with lots of beans so they can make gas, the gas comes out the top of the closet through that pipe you see in the picture and then this gas will be converted to green fuel in a plant. It takes 10 pinko-environmentalists to power 1 car.
28. OJ's Mom - January 23, 2009 9:08 AM
Does it work with a Mac?
29. softlicious - January 23, 2009 9:20 AM
@28 Yes it does work with BigMac's and Burrito's and any food. Just pronounce "Burrito", it does sound a little bit like a fat guy farting doesn't it? A Burrito enters the mouth and a fart exits the butt and the fart gets collected through the pipe on top, all the while the fat looser in the can farting his life away. Here's a picture helping you'all understand the concept:
http://dumbfoundedone.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/fart.jpg
30. BK - January 23, 2009 9:38 AM
Wow! He always seemed like a depressed guy, but I wonder what made him do this.......Was it Selma leaving? Was it Iron Man owning The Incredible Hulk? I bet it was The Illusionist.......
"I'm gonna teach you a lesson now, motherf***er. Put your f***in' ass in the cupboard. I said: put your ass in the cupboard! That's it. Now say good night."
*closes cupboard*
Norton! No!
31. softlicious - January 23, 2009 9:54 AM
I need that closet box! You know the aliens comming here?
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/01/strange_lights_in_the_sky_can.php#comment-75296
Well, I ordered a bunch of mexican school kids, they are comming here to my sweatshop-basement to manufacture some dolls that I have designed and trying to sell. Well, the problem is I don't have anywhere to accommodate theese mexican school kids, I figured that one closet would be more than enough for all of them to share, seeing as though they come from a country with slightly lower standards anyways. Say, what do you think, should I lock the closet door outside working hours to avoid having them running around? Kids that age always run around and stuff.
32. cooky - January 23, 2009 10:03 AM
paint it black and stick a my chemical romance poster in there and you can sell it to emo kids as a place to escape from all there worries in life
33. Anita Bath - January 23, 2009 10:44 AM
What the hell happened? Why did the Geekologie Writer shorten this post?
34. JK - January 23, 2009 11:02 AM
@ 33
He did to, before there was a 4, 5 and 6 when he gave up and said looking at this thing makes life not worth living
35. james - January 23, 2009 11:18 AM
Ummm..where does your shit and piss go after accumulating in a bucket for 2 days? Do you fry it up on that crappy stove thingy? This is basically a porti-potty with a tiny kitchen in it....and unless your ass is real skinny there's gonna shit all over the rim of that hole.....after a couple days the stink would kill you.
And you know this guy used this thing before........
*vomits*
36. BOOSH! - January 23, 2009 11:27 AM
Wouldn't it make more sense to just take a couple magazines and a hot plate into the bathroom and lock the door?
37. scatze - January 23, 2009 12:11 PM
I have a wardrobe that takes me to a magical land where I can f*** lions and witches, and goat people...but I certainly would take a dump in it...no way...
38. scatze - January 23, 2009 12:15 PM
Damn...WOULDN'T take a dump in it...
Me dope.
39. Adam Norton - January 23, 2009 12:28 PM
The back of the chair comes off too!
40. Why put the pooper inside? - January 23, 2009 12:44 PM
Shouldn't they have put the poop bucket outside the chamber or something. You can like poop in a tube or something
41. pussey - January 23, 2009 2:49 PM
I wish I could reach out to him.
42. j to the k - January 23, 2009 2:51 PM
@32
hilarious! my emo sister would love this thing..except it is missing a bottle of black hairdye and a box of tissue to wipe away the emo tears
43. leftRIGHTLeft - January 24, 2009 9:49 AM
at least there's a first aid book in the door should you decide to about the suicide mission...
44. Not funny - January 28, 2009 2:40 PM
This isn't funny... so why am I laughing until I cry? I'm actually weeping reading this.
Can you imagine spending more than, say, 3 hours on that chair? Coach class on Air Somalia is more comfortable.
Using the latrine is going to be fun when you need to piss, particularly since your dick is outside of the chair - and there's no way to stand up.
If it's fake, it's funny. If it's real - if someone actually planned on spending more than 8 minutes in this thing - then it's hilarious. Side splitting...
45. Andy - February 6, 2009 6:17 AM
Really guys. Does no one here have an appreciation for fine art??? Damn Trekkies.
46. Flu-Bird - May 12, 2009 11:08 AM
That thing looks kind of like a small economical version of DR WHO time machine the TARDIS and is the inventor going to real try and travel in that thing? I THINK HE NEEDS TO GO LIE DOWN
47. Adam Norton - May 28, 2009 8:59 PM
The Idea behind the Generic Escape Capsule was to create a psychological defence against world apocalypse paranoia. It is designed to work for 14 days, and would be a disaster to have to use. But then of course, you would only try to use it if outside was worse, and you still wanted to live, which would be doubtful. The circular loop the G.E.C. sends your thinking in is, I hope, the purpose of the art work, I have enjoyed your reactions, cheers Adam
PS Check out more art at adamnorton.net
48. john - January 9, 2011 7:25 PM
Ohhhhh my gosh! Why can’t everyone give out something THAT delicious for Halloween!