Body Strip, part of the Technomania Circus:
I start off wearing all five unitards & dance to classic burlesque music as Richard [the other performer] peels off layers in succession. First the skin is taken off, revealing muscles; then the muscles are removed, showing the organs; organs give way to the circulatory system; in the end, I’m left wearing the bones. It worked really well.
While assembling urban landscapes with the panorama-stitching app Hugin, I realized that I was neglecting perhaps the most impressive landscape of all: The human body. Using ten different angles of an obliging model’s torso, Hugin’s tools and Photoshop, I manually created this 180-degree image. It makes a healthy set of Ds look like a couple of flabby pancakes, but it also looks like it could potentially be used as a texture for an x-rated 3D game model. Or perhaps a serial killer’s conversation piece.
Pearl Necklace by Leah Piepgras.
photo by DeLares (Eliud Martinez)
Many New Yorkers refer to California as “The Land of Fruits and Nuts”, presumably skeptical (and possibly just jealous) of the generally more progressive culture of their bizarro west-coast counterparts. This is a front: If you can get a New Yorker to lower their guard by forgetting about their office job, their conservative ancestry or their embarrassment in front of their east-coast peers, you can get them to show their true colors. Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade, held yesterday, is the place to do this. And oh boy, it’s a sight.
The laws on the books in NYC state that it is legal for anyone – regardless of gender – to appear in public topless. In practice, if a woman were to walk down Broadway in nothing but a thong she might still be stopped by an ill-informed or overly diligent cop. The Mermaid Parade remedies this problem by encouraging more skin and parading it down Surf Avenue, right through Coney Island’s famous amusement park and boardwalk. When tits on parade are the main event, the pastie-makers get their creativity on. Here are some notables:
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