I just signed up to be a piece of art tonight.....a naked poser..
Really.......
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All I had to do was send in my name, email, address and select a code to describe my skin color and wait for Spencer Tunick's team to call me.
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Considering where I live...in the south.....it may be a long wait but hey....I'm on the list.
Spencer Tunick is an American artist from New York ( of course....) who creates "installations" in public places......by gathering large numbers of folks willing to get naked....and choreographing a scene.
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Sometimes he uses only a dozen people.....other times......he uses thousands. A recent installation in Mexico City....had 18,000 buff people in a city square...that's a bit mind boggling.....not only that thousands of folks were naked....but.... they all followed directions and did what they were told to do.....which was to hold a particular pose.
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The installation on the iceberg above.....was commissioned by Greenpeace to call attention to the fragility of the glaciers ....and our own human fragility....somehow I think it works.
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His most recent installation was in New York City at the famed 4 Seasons Restaurant. Here's a great short clip about the process and the man....all the while....the network is trying to blur or crop any private parts from getting on the air.
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I found a website of his installations....and it's fascinating.....you can click and browse various pictures by city. I would have posted more pics....but I believe they are copyrighted.
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One photo...of particular interest to me..... is from Ohio State near the football stadium....my daughter was there that year.....and I gave the pic a once over to see if I could recognize her butt.
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Of course, I haven't seen my daughter's naked butt in years....so I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for....although I had a sense if her butt was there...some mother's instinct and/or alarm would be activated. I emailed my daughter and asked her if she took part in the "butt-in".....so far I haven't gotten a response. There are, of course, some things you don't tell your mother.... at least not till you are older.
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I absolutely hate to admit this....but when I looked at the pictures....the most surprising thing to me....was that the men and women weren't leering at each other....or laughing .....or smiling......and were so business-like.
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I'm afraid if I was hunched over or lying on top of some tall, dark, handsome (and oh my god) young man....I would probably be deaf to any instructions and would spend a lot of time smiling and batting my eyelashes at him.
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I wonder if they eject people for.....unnecessary touching....staring.....and okay.....what if a man gets an erection?.....I mean put a man next to a nice looking naked woman and.......well....nature has its own plans.
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And how embarrassing would that be....to have a guy standing on a ladder with a megaphone.....shouting...."Will the guy in the third row...next to blond woman with long hair....control his penis." Maybe they hand out ice packs....for wayward genitalia.
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Well...trust me.....if the call comes from Tunick to show up some place....I'll accept and provide a "behind" the picture synopsis of how things are handled....
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unless I get ejected.....for bad behavior.....or inappropriate smiling...or laughing....
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bad bad Gina.
An installation in Germany.....under a Rubens....real life and still life bodies merge.~~~~~~~~
