Okay, if you can't stand nudity you better go away now ;) Well, during the summer of 2001 we read in the local newspaper that (in)famous art-photographer Spencer Tunick was coming to our town on august the 25th as part of his Nudes Adrift project. If you don't know Spencer Tunick (New York, 1967) let me tell you this. During the last few years he has become world famous, and to some infamous for his photos that feature many nude people in public places....like objects. He arranges them usually having them lying down on the ground, across kerbs, along pavements, public parks or whatever....sometimes almost like a 'carpet of people'. One of his well known projects was Nude States, where he would make photos of nake people in all US states, like people would cross a street in NYC, in the middle of winter.....stuff like that. Now he was working on Nudes Adrift - something similar, but now across the whole world. The boss of a little museum here knows Tunick personally, so he didn't choose for a town like Amsterdam, but ours :) Okay, so we were having this incredibly hot summer, last august, and having watched the weather reports every day it seemed that the 25 was going to be one of those special summer days....where it's getting really hot early in the morning already, and it'll start cooling down way after midnight. Well, I'm sure you know what I mean :) When reading about it in the newspaper, like more than 2 weeks before, I was thinking who'd be so nuts to take off their clothes in our town, but as the 25th got closer and closer I got this nervous feeling and felt curious enough to perhaps have a quick look that day. So a few days before it all was going to happen I read in the same paper that they put up a planning for those who wanted to join the fun. At like 6am you'd have to register at one of his assistants, take off your clothes and listen to the master :) You have to know that my hometown is this year 750 years old....I live in a town called Breda in the Netherlands, so as you can imagine the setting for photos like that (with the old streets, buildings, stones, etc) it would be really going to be something unique. First people would gather in the park, near a pond with a fountain and after that he wanted to move into the city center, to take photos in some of the old streets. This stuff was sticking in my mind for all that time and when it was the evening of the 24th I decided to go....well, I didn't expect anyone really mad enoug, like I already said, so why not have a look and see what's going on. So....I woke up at around 5am, took a cool shower that felt really nice after a warm and damp night, and after that I kind of felt funny having to put on clothes, although riding naked to that park would probably be a bit silly ;) Anyway, it was still incredibly dark and there was nobody outside yet, except for a taxi or so.....no traffic, cause it was a saturday morning. almost got to the park....nothing yet....everything still so quiet, everybody seemed still asleep and I felt like a fool, waking up so early. Well, when I got there I was completely shocked! The whole park was crowded....I read the next day that around 2000 people were there to be photographed! Amazing, I never thought that anyone would have enough courage =) Really awesome....everything still dark, just before dawn.