5,200 Australians bare all for photo shoot

AP ^ | March 1, 2010

[ConservativeStatement]

SYDNEY—About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.

Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions.

"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa," Tunick said. "So I was very happy that that last set up finally got done and everyone came together (in a) united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure."

[ConservativeStatement]

Someone was overheard asking if those were falsettos. /sarc.

[JimmyMc]

No photos please!!!

[sinanju]

If you’re gonna make it big as an artiste, you gotta have a gimmick, wrapping landmarks in cellophane, sliced cows in formaldehyde, photographing weimaraners in fancy dress, etc.

[earlJam]

Without seeing the pictures, I bet those are not the same 5200 nude Australians I would have picked for a photo shoot.

[lurk]

Wow.

PT Barnum was right.

[ravingnutter]

No photos please!!!

Most definitely...just because they bare all, doesn't mean we have to bear the sight of it!

[Gay State Conservative]

It was difficult to get the straight normal participants to embrace the gay perverted participants...." Tunick said.

And the truly nauseating part is that this clown can't understand *why* that was the case.

[a fool in paradise]

The cool thing about getting 5,000 people to pose for a photo is that you can expect at least several hundred of them to line up and BUY a print later. KaCHING!

[a fool in paradise]

He said “and vice versa”. Does this mean that they were heterophobic?

[JoeProBono]

[subterfuge]

"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa,"

Right. We know how reserved and shy those gays are. (eyes rolling)

Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions.

It's called porn.

[reagan_fanatic]

"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa,"

Gross.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Throw another bare ass on the barbie.....

[Gay State Conservative]

Without seeing the pictures, I bet those are not the same 5200 nude Australians I would have picked for a photo shoot.

Having walked several beaches near Sydney on hot summer days I can assure you that there are some *very* healthy young sheilas to be seen in Oz (didn't pay much attention to the blokes)!

[SpinnerWebb]

It's called porn.

Only if you get sexually excited from old, fat, naked people standing doing absolutely nothing in public... but, hey, more power to you.

Main Entry: por·nog·ra·phy
Pronunciation: \-fē\
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek pornographos, adjective, writing about
prostitutes, from pornē prostitute + graphein to write;
akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey — more at fare, carve
Date: 1858
1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement

[Gay State Conservative]

Ping

[Gay State Conservative]

He said “and vice versa”. Does this mean that they were heterophobic?

I have more phobias than you can even begin to imagine! ;-)

[a fool in paradise]

Does this get your UFO ping?
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Ugly Fat Ol’ People...

[CharlesWayneCT]

straight participants to embrace the gay participants

If I had to guess, the problem was more getting straights to embrace people of the same sex, and gays to embrace people of the opposite sex.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa,”.....

I hope they have Bareasspalooza in front of the White House when it comes to the U.S.!