One thing there is no shortage of on the Internet, I have found, are people who tell you “that’s a great idea, go do it” when you tell them some hare-brained thing you just cooked up. Come to think of it, there’s no shortage of them anywhere; I remember saying that to my brother often. “Go do it, ‘it’ll be fun’,” I’d say, and he’d run out and break all the windows in the barn or something.
So my big blogger-body-image campaign, the Zona Nuda Naked Blogger Project, well. I was thinking of actually going through with it after receiving submissions from quite a few people (michele? the barstool one? that is not a “non-pornographic frontal nude”. D? I had no idea you could do that with a turtle.) but I came to the realization that nakedness in real life, or “in person”, i.e. actual, physical nakedness, which I think is a good thing, is fundamentally different from posting naked pictures on the Internet. Duh.
My main problem, though was simply the “fake” issue. How do you ensure that participants are over 18 or 21 or whatever? How do you ensure that the picture blogger X submits is actually them? Maybe it’s a fake picture. Or, even more problematic, it could be a genuine picture of blogger X, submitted by someone else pretending to be them, with a spoofed email or whatever.
So I’ve decided not to go through with this project. If anyone wants it, they’re welcome to it for a small fee and a link. Thanks to everyone who was so supportive, thanks to those of you who sent in pictures – I’ll be setting up a Cafepress store pretty soon and hopefully you’ll be able to buy yourself on a t-shirt very soon.
The things you miss when you disappear for all of 5 days… Damn.
Er- couldja like, go ahead and post the ones you did get? I mean, they sent them in after all…
You could do a membership thing, maybe. Password protect the directory… use an online release form. Nah- it’s still too complicated. Someone would find a way to cause trouble somewhere along the way.
But really, post those photos.
Do it- it would be cool.
I look forward to buying that shirt. When I wear it, people can look at me without having to wonder what I look like naked.
I’m all about conservation of mental effort.
so basically what you’re saying is, you have the nudie pics now and we can’t have them, neener-neener-neener?
you’re a mean pervert.
Working on it.
why don’t you just admit you’re a dirty pervert?
Do you have to be 18 or 21 to be naked? Frontal nudity is not pornographic, after all.
Are you familiar with USA photographer Sally Mann? I had the privilege of seeing her work up close when I was attending the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her prints are beautiful. Her subject matter is her family, of which many times her children are nude. From my understanding, she’s been in and out of court and has had the FBI raid her home and take anything related to photography a couple of times (this was actually somewhat of an epidemic about five years back, prompted by Jon Benet Ramsey’s murder, which I’m sure actually destroyed many innocent families. Go Big Bro… er, Uncle Sam! (As the Shrub says, “There should be limits to freedom.”) ).