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  • Naked photo shoot to draw attention to glacial shrinkage

    07/19/2007 2:04:32 PM PDT · by grjr21 · 22 replies · 846+ views
    CNN ^ | 7/19/2007 | AP
    <p>ZURICH, Switzerland (AP)-- Wanted: volunteers willing to take their clothes off and have their picture taken on a freezing cold Alpine glacier. The appeal by New York artist Spencer Tunick, famous for taking pictures of thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, is intended for a photo shoot to highlight the effects of climate change on Switzerland's shrinking glaciers, environmental group Greenpeace said on its Web site Wednesday. Greenpeace said if global warming continues at its current pace, most Swiss glaciers will disappear by 2080. The photo shoot, which follows Tunick's previous shoots in London, Mexico City and Amsterdam, will take place in August at an undisclosed location in Switzerland. Prospective candidates from further afield will have to start making travel arrangements now. "We aim to make this a climate friendly event, so please come by public transport and don't fly," Greenpeace said.</p>
  • Football fan banned for penis stunt

    01/02/2004 11:37:07 AM PST · by presidio9 · 48 replies · 453+ views
    Ananova ^ | Friday 2nd January 2004
    A Dutch football club has banned one of its fans for posing for a photograph with the local mayor with his penis hanging out. Mayor Wim Deetman did not realise the ADO Den Haag fan was exposing himself when he agreed to have his picture taken with him. He had just come from a meeting with club directors and gladly posed arm in arm with the fan who was clutching a bottle of beer. It was only later, when the picture was circulated on the internet, that Mayor Deetman realised he had been set up. He is now taking legal...