Art is dead

I really don't understand why this guy's photo shoots are even news anymore. We get it, already:

The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear.

The latest work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick gathered 1,840 people, baring it all in Austria's Happel Stadium on Sunday.

"Stay very still. Don't move," the Austria Press Agency quoted Tunick as telling the crowd as he went to work.

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The stadium will host seven of the Euro 2008 soccer championship matches being staged by Austria and Switzerland, including the June 29 final.

Tunick has made a name for himself with his works featuring hundreds of naked people at unusual venues. He described Sunday's shooting on his Web site as combining "the spirit of sports, the grand sweeping waves of stadium architecture and the abstract relation of the human form to modern structures."

I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on that. Your pictures actually combine the "spirit" of conning a big crowd of doughy people who are (probably) liberal dupes into getting nude in public places in the name of doing something "transgressive," with your ability to con the media into giving you free publicity, again, because you're a "transgressive" "artist." But you're not. You're a huckster, no matter what kind of high-minded rhetoric you try to use to pass off your big group naked pictures.

Am I jealous just because every time I try to get people to take their clothes off in public, my parole officer gets a call? Probably. But you're still a douche.

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I was away from the computer for most of the day, so I didn't notice the huge spike in traffic until well after midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning. Otherwise, I would have put this update up much earlier.

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