Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

the naked dublin - spencer tunick experience

  • 21-06-2008 11:23AM
    #1
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭


    thought it would be only right to start a new thread for all the people who were out in dublins docklands this morning in the cold naked light of day

    it was a great experience seeing a photo shoot on that scale. The first minute or two being buck ass naked was obviously a little embarressing but seeing another several thousand naked people all around soon relaxed everyone i think

    anyone care to share their experiences?
    Tagged:


«1

Comments

  • #2
    mr.bovy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭mr.bovy


    Its was amazing! increadible feeling of great connection between all the people.

    Especially during the second take on the beach!
    that was just ridiculous! i really loved it

    interesting... the fact that all people were nude wasn't really the the most important thing about the event. I was greatly surprised...


    check out this video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TIRjuFhwNg

    im dying to see any shots taken, even those unofficial/draft ones...
    and more than anything else... videos made by people aproahi9ng dublin port on ferry....


  • #3
    Fionn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Fionn


    on the subject of the photographer and his pictures - when i saw them at first i was impressed but as time goes on and having seen more and more there is a sameness about them that for me, is boringly inescapable!


  • #4
    mr.bovy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭mr.bovy


    Fionn wrote: »
    on the subject of the photographer and his pictures - when i saw them at first i was impressed but as time goes on and having seen more and more there is a sameness about them that for me, is boringly inescapable!


    I know what you mean,,,
    True, its always the same theme (for over 10 years in this case - more??)
    it is odd... whats the point of reproducing thesame thing for such a long time...

    To have full idea I will need to check out his official printed releases. (resources on the internet are rather compact and brief...)

    I have learned from the event yesterday that there is so much more behind those pictures...

    Its my personal interpretation - I wouldn't call it "installation" actually as he does - but "happening"
    Its amazing how all that is managed and played out
    Incredible are relations between participants...


  • #5
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭DotOrg


    part of the art is the experience for the thousnads doing the event and that is still just as powerful to the participants, even though it's been going on for years

    looking at small web sized versions of his images don't do them any justice. he makes images that you need to see printed big so the scale of it can be seen.

    In his big prints you can see hundreds or thousands of individual people, all th same and all different. One reason why it works doing the same thing over many years is that people are the same naked today as they were in the shots from when he first did it.


  • #6
    Fionn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Fionn


    so would you say that it was more for the participants rather than the viewer. I heard from reports on radio etc. that everyone found it liberating and provided a positive experience.
    Maybe its just me (short attention span :rolleyes:) I appreciate that there is a great deal of planning and marshalling to compose these photographs, but if i make a photograph of a subject be it a naked person or a flower or lots of people or flowers or whatever no one sees or knows about the logistics and preparation of the shot. I dont doubt for a moment that the photographs are excellent although i haven't seen any high res copies but i'm really just commenting on the sameness - personally I'd be bored of doing the same thing over and over.
    But well done to all that took part :)


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭DotOrg


    some of the best artists do one thing and do it really well. it's about perfecting an art. he's not trying to develop something new doing these shoots, the sameness is part of what makes it an interesting project


  • #8
    Ninja_scrotum
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 510 ✭✭✭Ninja_scrotum


    any hot ladies?


  • #9
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    Ninja_scrotum wrote: »
    any hot ladies?

    none that'd look at you twice, scrotes

    :D


  • #10
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭DotOrg


    loads and loads of hot ladies wearing nothing at all but the whole thing was amazingly unerotic, being cold and naked surrounded by men and women of all ages and shapes didn't lend itself to sexyness

    i was there with my naked wife and neither of us felt that anyone was looking at us in any erotic way and we were too chilly and amazed by the event to be looking for hot men or ladies


  • #11
    mr.bovy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭mr.bovy


    Fionn wrote: »
    so would you say that it was more for the participants rather than the viewer. I heard from reports on radio etc. that everyone found it liberating and provided a positive experience.
    Maybe its just me (short attention span :rolleyes:) I appreciate that there is a great deal of planning and marshalling to compose these photographs, but if i make a photograph of a subject be it a naked person or a flower or lots of people or flowers or whatever no one sees or knows about the logistics and preparation of the shot. I dont doubt for a moment that the photographs are excellent although i haven't seen any high res copies but i'm really just commenting on the sameness - personally I'd be bored of doing the same thing over and over.
    But well done to all that took part :)

    I think important question is: Would his contribution to art photography would be any smaller if he quit this project some time ago...

    Its probably risky statement, as I said - I know his work only from the internet (so I might be missing some pieces of information) ...but as we speak about quantity vs. time - answer is obvious I think...
    icon13.gif

    by the way: I wonder what was the budget for this event (wondering just out of curiosity)


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Discussion and photos in THIS THREAD

    Including this shark attack on the participants...

    attachment.php?attachmentid=58207&d=1214052953

    :D

    Btw, I think the vast majority of people done this for the whole experience of it and not because they believed it was art.


  • #13
    Rojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Rojo


    I spotted you and Shawna, James!!!!! ;)










    ....before we got naked!


    I bumped into soooo many people I knew there - was hilarious! The experience was absolutely amazing, although, I'm a shell of a person now (so wrecked). I'll post more about when I don't feel like a lemming.


  • #14
    flo8s967qjh0nd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭flo8s967qjh0nd


    Well done to everyone who did this in Dublin.

    I did it in Blarney Castle (Cork finally get in ahead of Dublin :)

    Was anybody at both? How did they compare?

    Does anybody know how long we'll have to wait for our limited edition print? I heard anything up to a year!


  • #15
    venuscryflap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭venuscryflap


    So many funny moments of this morning. Saying cheeeeeeese even when we had our heads down facing away from the camera. I cracked up when we were all 'getting into first position A' by doing the shape of the letter?! And the guy who shouted at Tunick when we were in the water 'It's the big red button on the top!' Class. I am now contemplating part-time streaking and looking ahead at the Ashes next year in the UK - will bring my own helmets just in case?!


  • #16
    mr.bovy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭mr.bovy


    venuscryflap wrote: »
    So many funny moments of this morning. Saying cheeeeeeese even when we had our heads down facing away from the camera. I cracked up when we were all 'getting into first position A' by doing the shape of the letter?! And the guy who shouted at Tunick when we were in the water 'It's the big red button on the top!' Class. I am now contemplating part-time streaking and looking ahead at the Ashes next year in the UK - will bring my own helmets just in case?!

    lots of memories indeed :)
    unforgettable. Im so amazed how pleasant community we have all build there...
    i liked more "freeeeeeeze" instead of "cheeeeeese" :D
    i was lucky to wear the motorcycle helmet - quite handy to protect from rain :D


  • #17
    venuscryflap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭venuscryflap


    Helmet would also come in handy incase of facial recognition?!

    The second shoot was definitely the best as it really brought home the enormity of what we were doing as you could actually see numbers. My favourite moment is when we were just larking about in the sea like a load of kids but naked?! Just being there and feeling so comfortable in our skin. Definitely the best experience of my life!!!


  • #18
    silverapples
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭silverapples


    I agree with you, it was the best experience. I guess I thought it wud be more 'arty' but it was a humourous and levelling experience, no way of telling 'the haves and the have nots'. I loved the sense of madness, the lack of interest in the usual body bits - just people connecting into a great and happy lemmingness. The beach was joyful abandon. I loved the sitting down shot on the jetty, the comment about the Irish sunbathing at the first sign of sunlight...........hello Stena Line....Well done brave and free spirits


  • #19
    gollywogsuper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭gollywogsuper


    It was fantastic! Kind of liberating.
    Can anyone say what the fourth shot was? We were freezing and longed for our beds. Taking our clothes off again didn't seem so attractive.

    I think the pier shot will look amazing - one of his finest.

    Well done us. :)


  • #20
    silverapples
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭silverapples


    fourth shot was in the sea, just up to our ankles, so aside from the splashing and the pouring rain and the waves, we hardly got wet at all! It was a standing, with heads down facing Spencer and then a reverse, heads down facing out to sea - all with the same hilarity and sense of oneness as earlier shots.


  • #21
    JoGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭JoGirl


    What an extraordinary experience. Great sense of fellow feeling, all very life affirming. We might grunt at each other on the dart, jostle to get head at the bar, roll our eyes at each other's driving every other day, but it seemed like for just a few hours, on a mid summer's morning, citizens of Dublin really loved each other underneath it all. Underneath it all.

    No heed to 'boys' nor 'girls' neither, just 'people' and warmth and joy all around.

    Thanks everyone. I had a great time.


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    isn't it illegal to run around starkers ?


  • #23
    bradnailer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭bradnailer


    Did all you guys get a e-mail with event details this week ? I got nothing thought it was canceled, I feel so rejected :(:D


  • #24
    YogiBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭YogiBear


    080906e.jpg

    Spencer Tunick Creates Body Sculpture in Düsseldorf


  • #25
    corkonian1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭corkonian1


    venuscryflap wrote: »
    So many funny moments of this morning. Saying cheeeeeeese even when we had our heads down facing away from the camera. I cracked up when we were all 'getting into first position A' by doing the shape of the letter?! And the guy who shouted at Tunick when we were in the water 'It's the big red button on the top!' Class.
    In Blarney, I think the corresponding comment would have to be a man who asked loudly, just as Spencer was about to shoot: "Does my ass look big in this?" We cracked up so visibly that Spencer commented on the shaking shoulders in one section of the crowd.


  • #26
    lilli_bud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭lilli_bud


    Anyone find the getting dressed bit to be the only kinda embarassing bit?
    The nakedness- grand, waiting to get naked with a couple o thousand people- grand, getting back into clothes and remembering that hey aren't we meant to have these on all of the time- a lil embarassing


  • #27
    Valentia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Valentia


    Good man Spencer! You've done more than anyone in history to increase the membership of Boards. I can just imagine everyone running around, wanting to talk about their "experience" and , for some reason, ending up here.

    It certainly seems like a worthwhile experience for the participants but I tend to agree with Fionn. A bit like the Irish version of basketball. Great to play but boring as **** to look at. Spencer's creativity could do with a jab methinks.


  • #28
    YogiBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭YogiBear


    Does he do any other photography work or is he on a bit of a roll with this travelling around the world giving folks a nudist experience in their home environment? I think I'll try out a nudist beach sometime.


  • #29
    MartMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭MartMax


    google.ie search on spencer tunick brings this thread in the first 10 results...


  • #30
    AlanMooneyPhoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭AlanMooneyPhoto


    That Dusseldorf shoot is a bit close contact for me... would want everyone hosed down first!


  • Advertisement
  • #31
    mr.bovy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭mr.bovy


    so did anyone go for 2nd shooting today ?
    how and what was it ?


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement
Advertisement