5/12/2005: More naked art: Tunick in Brussels
 

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Photographer Spencer Tunick is still at it - this time in the town of Bruegge. He got 2000 naked people out to the streets, but since it was cold and rainy they decided to take over a local theatre instead.

Google-translated German article from Yahoo

"The 28-jaehrige Charlotte Logghe explained, it had prevailed a good zusammengehoerigkeitsgefuehl, but it was extremely cold unfortunately."

I do enjoy a good zusammengehoerigkeitsgefuehl.

(pulls fire alarm and sits back with a box of junior mints)

He doesn't seem to have realized his 15 minutes are up.

The various shapes and sizes of people just amaze me...

Somebody keeps giving him extra minutes in the form of money. Or is he independently wealthy?

I'd be more impressed if they were performing the Das Rheingold naked.

'cause when the men hit the high notes, you can really see it in those testicles.

together belongingness feeling.

I think he probably decided to do this because those Chinese guys were stealing his schtick, and he needed to remind people he was doing it lots better.

Obviously the people who are seated are less endowed.............

I hope they all showered first.

Or so much MORE endowed that the people in front of them would have to move... :)

There was an HBO (Showtime, some cable movie channel or other) piece about Tunick. It was actually very good.

I rather like what he is doing. It is a sociologically complex undertaking for starters, and the juxtaposition of the myriad of human body types against constructed things/natural settings evokes a similarly complex set of internal reactions for me.

I think what I appreciate most about Tunick's work is that it really drives home the point that there is absolutely nothing sexual, prurient or nasty about human nudity.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on the sexual part. And from an -ogical perspective to boot.

Humans don't have an overt period of estrus to count on to aid in reproduction. We've evolved (boo, hiss...) into having a constant low level state of receptiveness instead. The human body's cues for who the best mate would be are keyed to several fractors: for attractiveness in females it's roughly hips, breasts, and symmetry and for men it's roughly physical prowess (size, apparent strength) and symmetry. These are only rough approximations, I'm working from memory here. After that, our neocortex is what helps us carry the rest to extremes or to learn to base it on other factors such as the unisex pecuniary prowess.

So there you go, boobs rule.

Gosh TS, I love it when you talk dirty. :blush:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just a veritable fountain of effervescent effluvia.