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Samantha
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 Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: Thousands of Naked Mexicans in the Zocalo? |
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You guys in DF have all the fun! 
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MEXICO CITY - US artist Spencer Tunick will fill Mexico City's Zocalo square -- the centre of the ancient Aztec empire and the heart of modern Mexico -- with thousands of naked Mexicans next week for his latest mass nude photo shoot.
Tunick, who was refused permission to stage his nude photo at Mexico's famed Teotihuacan pyramids outside the capital, has been granted permission to use the Zocalo for his shoot next Sunday, local media reported today.
The Mexico City government was not available for comment. |
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10436934 |
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geaaronson
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: xxx |
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| Who cares about the guys,will the babes be out in full force? I heard they will be wearing their telephone numbers around their necks. Any truth to that? |
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Samantha
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geaaronson
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:21 am Post subject: nekkid boddies |
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Hey, I got a gut. I ain�t going nekkid publicly.
But guess what? I am living 1 block from the zocalo. TEEEHEEEHTEHHHEH |
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thelmadatter
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: Toluca sucks |
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| *sigh* so close and yet sooooo far..... |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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I have a picture stored in my computer of myself naked. Shall I post it for an audition? Nooooooooo!
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jillford64
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy -- Did you get any pictures of this??? |
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Gary Denness
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy -- Did you get any pictures of this??? |
I thought about going up and trying to get a snap or two, but twas too early in the morn for my liking! I've also heard that it was all cordoned off, with trains running through Zocalo without stopping?
I've been trying to find a photo for my blog....typing 'naked mexicans' into Google sure brings up lots of stuff, but not quite what I was after! |
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thelmadatter
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: pics |
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Yeah.. I though to go over and be nosy but then I read that they would have everything well sealed off.... oh well... Saw pics but nothing up-close enough to see anything good.
I heard a rumor that Freddy M participated....  |
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Samantha
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Gary Denness
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Gracias! |
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MELEE
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| I checked out the photos, and despite the caption on one about the "mosaic of skin tones" I thought they were shockingly white! Obviously Mexico's Middle class were the only ones interested in participating in the project. |
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ls650
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| MELEE wrote: |
| I checked out the photos, and despite the caption on one about the "mosaic of skin tones" I thought they were shockingly white! |
This writer below begs to differ with you. Note the last paragraph:
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Miami Herald - Monday, May 7th, 2007
Thousands strip for Tunick
BY MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA
Carmen Gonz�lez stood prim and proper Sunday in the pre-dawn darkness of the Z�calo.
Her dark brown dress was neatly pressed, and she held her daughter�s hand tightly as the crowd pressed against them. This isn�t Gonzalez�s "thing," hanging around at a crazy hour, preparing to get a little wild. But at the age of 50, she figured, "Why not? Why not get naked?
"I�m nervous," Gonz�lez told her 20-year-old daughter, Maria Oliva Gonz�lez, as a voice crackled over the loudspeaker.
But when Spencer Tunick, provocative photographer of the bare-bunned masses, gave the word, Carmen Gonz�lez did not hesitate. She shimmied out of that brown dress while her daughter was still fiddling with buttons.
And there it was. After a lifetime of acting demure, Carmen Gonz�lez was naked for all to see. And she was smiling.
Everyone else, it seemed, was smiling, too - an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 volunteer nude models hopping about in the morning chill. As the sun began to rise above the National Palace, they wriggled out of blue jeans, slipped off tank tops, and kicked away shoes. A trio of college buddies sloughed off bathrobes and flip-flops. The crowd was mostly silent, except for the giggles.
Tunick, a New Yorker who was arrested multiple times when he began staging large-scale nude photo shoots in the early 1990s, has since become one of the world�s best-known photographers. He has posed nudes in front of a statue of Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, filled the streets of Montreal and Sao Paulo, Brazil, with them and marched them through a London department store. He describes his work as "a symbol for freedom" and writes on his Web site that his nude photo event is "a mysterious morning ritual."
His Mexico City shoot was anticipated with all the hand-wringing that might be expected in this socially conservative country. Pundits and radio-show callers fretted about teen-agers and 20-somethings frolicking in a public raunch fest. Although the youngsters did show up in great numbers, the day seemed to belong to the Carmen Gonz�lezes of this city, middle-age Mexicans who lived through their country�s authoritarian past and are reveling in a new sense of freedom.
"With this, I see us advancing. We�re moving toward more freedom of expression, more liberty," said H�ctor Huerta, 40, a taxi driver, as he clasped the waist of his wife, Rosa Aguilar, also 40. "I could never imagine this happening in Mexico."
Tunick�s Mexico City debut wasn�t without bumps. His arrival was preceded by weighty philosophical battles about public nudity. The prominent Mexican art critic Raquel Tibol declared that Tunick�s photos would be "an antidote to Mexican prudishness," while the Spanish critic Rom�n Gubern sniffed that the photographer�s work is "redundant" and "doesn�t appear artistic."
Tunick had hoped to stage his photos at Teotihuac�n, the ancient ruins outside Mexico City where tourists flock to climb the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. But the Mexican government turned him down. His fallback was the city�s central square, known as the Z�calo. But the square�s signature giant Mexican flag was not flying when the nudes arrived. And Tunick promised not to include the baroque National Cathedral, which sits on the square, in his shots.
In less than an hour, it was over, and thousands of shivering, naked bodies came bouncing back to the bags of clothes they�d left at the edge of the square.
They were dark-skinned indigenous people, pale men and women who trace their heritage from the Spanish conquistadors, light-brown mestizos. They were fat and skinny, tall and short. But stripped of their clothes and viewed from afar, they looked a lot alike. They looked like Mexico. |
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