Take it off. Take it all off - Sydney Australia Mardi Gras "installation " for Freedom and Equality

[Mira]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8542350.stm

By Nick Bryant
BBC News, Sydney

More than 5,000 people have shed their clothing on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to pose for a photograph by the American artist Spencer Tunick.
The organisers had only expected about half that number to take part.
The installation had been commissioned by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which took place over the weekend.
For once the eye was diverted away from the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera House.
It was drawn instead to the tableau of naked flesh assembled on its steps.
"Gay men and women lay naked next to their straight neighbours and this delivered a very strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society," Tunick said.
More than 5,000 men and women shed their clothing - people of all ages, shapes and sizes, who were undeterred by the chilly pre-dawn weather on this, the first morning of the southern autumn.


More at link above, but not more pictures :)

[Botany]

1. Five-thousand bum salute

http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/thousands-strip-naked-on-opera-house-steps/2010/03/01/1267291832800.html

A collective cry went up with each new chill as we gathered in the shape of a giant upside-down triangle. Soon people were slapping their
buttocks en masse with their hands to warm up

[Echo In Light]

3. LOL...creates quite a visual

[MineralMan]

5. Bum-looker! Cheeky monkey!

[Echo In Light]

6. ha..."would you like to touch my monkey?"

(okay...wrong SNL character. But still...)

[MineralMan]

7. I feel just like a little girl...

[MineralMan]

4. Pretty cheeky of them, I'd say.

[Mira]

10. This is a great link - thanks. Here's my favorite, I've had it for years.

[Botany]

11. Cleveland OH

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_I3UrUjOsFNo/SfB-ouiI-dI/AAAAAAAAAqs/Ba9kUJi2r8Y/s400/Spencer+Tunick+in+Cleveland+-+June+26+2004_20090423-16351752.jpg

[MineralMan]

2. Cool. It's a little chilly here in Minnesota for such things, but

it's always nice to see people engaging in such activities to make a point. Everyone looks at groups of naked people.

[lunatica]

8. Another Spencer Tunick photo

[lunatica]

9. Spencer Turnick - Mexico, DF in the Zocalo photo

[UTUSN]

12. That Spencer hit the mother lode of gimmicks for himself: "Call it 'Art' !1" n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. That's it! We threaten a nude march on Washington

by everyone over 65.
Just the threat ought to work.

Make that in the summer, of course.

[Mira]

14. 65 - and heavily tattooed. What a concept. N/T

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Ready for my close up, who's with me?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_S2HfD7lRi2Y/SoSwkgE2B2I/AAAAAAAABQw/V9br5UXhNp4/s320/old+lady+tattoo.jpg

[Echo In Light]

16. Amazing (I'm heavily inked myself)

[Mira]

17. I envisioned you to look just like that, but why are you not smiling?

:rofl: