Does this explain @moose-the-mooche’s recent absence from the blog?
Hull is other people – naked
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Does this explain @moose-the-mooche’s recent absence from the blog?
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Dunno. But @hubert-rawlinson was there. See haiku thread for the be-fezzed evidence.
Didn’t see moose, the antlers would have been a give away.
Moose said he wasn’t doing it as I recall from some other thread.
“Doing it” hurrr.
Ahem…other Hullensians are available. Although not for that.
@hubert-rawlinson didn’t send his butler instead…?
Butler was otherwise engaged
Had to ‘perform’ myself
Well someone had to.
My friend took part. I can’t bring myself to look at any of the pictures I really don’t have any desire to see her naked blue or not.
The bit that surprised me was that paint was used. I thought it the normal skin complexion for those Humber breezes.
I was fascinated to read more about this after Hubert mentioned it on Facebook.
The sheer logistics! Getting over 3000 people’s kit off and then painting them all blue by 4am. Cecil B De Mille would have been impressed. And a surreal sight it was to see them all on the way to the shoot.
Best of all though was the wonderful photos that Tunick too. They are mysterious, evocative and very lyrical.
The man is a poet!
Sorry KFD but there was no one to take our kit off but ourselves. Paint was applied by ourselves apart from those hard to reach places. ( Top of the back)
This was the third time for me, first with body paint.
Remember those aren’t the finished photos that you’ve seen.
And in the circularity of the world I found out that an old friend of mine from when we did photography back in the seventies used to print Spencer’s photographs when he lived in New York.
Opening not until April next year.
Even if the photos I saw in the Grauniad aren’t the finished product, they are very impressive.
Apply your own paint? What have the arts come to?
Dare I ask who was on hand to help you daub the more inaccessible spots?
Normally I would probably find the prospect of hundreds of naked, north-eastern nipples a slightly erotic one. At 3am on the chilly streets of Hull, I suspect it was anything but.
Those photos may be blue but blue they are not.
There were 3.199 others there, always a helping hand on offer. It was only the top of the back that couldn’t be reached.
Didn’t strip off until 4.00 finished after 7.00. Didn’t think it particularly cold, much colder when I did it in Manchester. That was cold.
As some wag said on Facebook, the biggest collection of blue arses until the next Tory conference.