*WARNING - Nude fotos* Naked people pose on Swiss glacier

[Mr. E]

I think that they run the risk of having people dismiss their concerns because of the method they used to call attention to it; many people will call their actions grandstanding and/or exhibitionism and place less, rather than more, importance on their message.

I have to agree.

Instead of reasoned debate, they use naked people to stir interest. It does not really strike me as the best way to go about something like this.

And did anyone notice that the men seem to outnumber the women by about three to one? I wonder if the motivation for most of these guys has less to do with saving the planet and more with being around naked females for a few hours.

 

[Makalakumu]

And did anyone notice that the men seem to outnumber the women by about three to one? I wonder if the motivation for most of these guys has less to do with saving the planet and more with being around naked females for a few hours.

Nah. Just think of it as killing two birds with one stone...

 

[CoryKS]

Nah. Just think of it as killing two birds with one stone...

Or three birds with one stoner.

 

[Big Don]

I think it was more about their desires to pose naked in public.

Did you notice that its always the ugly that pose naked in public? The beautiful get photographed in studios...

 

[jazkiljok]

So Michaelangelo's nudes are art but Spencer Tunick's aren't? Tunick's been doing this work with nudes for decades, all over the world. He hands out fliers inviting people to participate at a particular time and place. He always gets a great turnout. They undress and position themselves very quickly, he takes the photos, and they disband. Sometimes he just walks up to ordinary people in the street and asks them if they'd pose nude. I'm hardly an exhibitionist, but I'd do it. I love his work.

Despite the fact that the photo was distributed by Greenpeace, it's likely that the people in the photos aren't even a "group," just the usual Tunick volunteers.

But, yeah, they're probably melting the ice...or freezing their arses.

yes, Tunicks' work is well known-mainly for the spectacles he creates in arranging for these shots- he's gone from subversive guerrilla shoots (no permission for the location, secretly arranged etc) to accepted and supported artist.

these are first and foremost works of art-- any cause or message related is really secondary.

like it or hate it- that's art baby.

 

[qi-tah]

So Michaelangelo's nudes are art but Spencer Tunick's aren't? Tunick's been doing this work with nudes for decades, all over the world. He hands out fliers inviting people to participate at a particular time and place. He always gets a great turnout. They undress and position themselves very quickly, he takes the photos, and they disband. Sometimes he just walks up to ordinary people in the street and asks them if they'd pose nude. I'm hardly an exhibitionist, but I'd do it. I love his work.

Yeah, me too!

I was all ready to go down to Melbourne for a morning crowd photo shoot a couple of years ago when Tunick was in town, but when the morning came it was just too damn cold and i just crawled further underneath the doona instead. I saw the photos afterward, how well they turned out and felt a real pang of regret that i hadn't been more stoic. I don't actually see his photos as exhibitionism, more an affirmation of our shared humanity. After all, we all come naked into the world - notions of innocence or shame, sameness and difference come later.

As for the perils of climate change, i would like to believe that the majority of indipendent scientists that work in this field are wrong, i really would. But somehow i doubt it. Interestingly enough, there was a news item on the telly today showing how cartographers are currently having to redraw the world's maps to reflect the damage we have done already thru irrigation and the like. For instance, the Aral sea (Between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) is now just a series of interconnected lakes, and has lost 75% of it's water since 1960. In China, the Yellow River no longer has the flows to regularly reach the coast. And here in Australia, the health of the mighty Murray River was recently described by a farmer as "so bad, if it was a dog i'd shoot it".
Worrying trends... even if there is a only a 5% chance of the worst case scenarios of climate change taking place, don't we owe it to our kids to do everything in our power to prevent that from happening? Sackcloth and ashes will do nothing, investing in alternative energy sources, eating locally grown foods where possible, reducing consumption, lobbying our reps for action such as binding emissions targets and a carbon tax, sustainable building codes etc etc, are practical steps we can all take. Who knows? You could even save money on yr power bill!

Sorry if i've ranted on a bit, but i really do think there is a pressing need to act on climate change ASAP.