Scroll down for Glacier Surfing, dude!
Back in June it was all going off in Amsterdam, and this weekend it was a naked rendezvous with a glacier in Switzerland for famous photographer Spencer Tunick.
Otherwise known as ‘The Naked Photographer’. (He’s not really known as that, but I’m coining the term regardless, such is the power of The Crazy News)
About 600 volunteer nudes braved the Aletsch glacier in the Valais region in southern Switzerland in a photo shoot aimed at drawing attention to the effects of global warming on the world’s glaciers.
Tunick said his photographs were both works of art and political statements.
“I will try to treat the body on two levels. On an abstract level, as if they were flowers or stones.
“I want my images to go more than skin-deep. I want the viewers to feel the vulnerability of their existence and how it relates closely to the sensitivity of the world’s glaciers,” New York native Tunick told media.
Glacier Surfing!
But not everyone is unhappy with the melting of the world’s glaciers.
Totally gnarly thrill seekers are taking advantage of the massive waves created by chunks of glacier falling into the ocean.
Surfers Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala posted this epic video on youtube after waiting for several hours at the Child’s Glacier, in south-central Alaska, for a slice of the glacier to give way, with totally awesome consequences.
They even have their own web site GlacierSurfing.com, and they say the phenomenon was first discovered by a photographer in 1995 when filming for IMAX movie
Surfs Up!
Global Warming is totally awesome, man!