This isn't most conventional way to prove a point but it makes damn cool street theater.
In London yesterday performance artist Alice Newstead hung from the piercings in her back (ouch), in a Lush shop window, to protest the cruel practice of "finning" - slicing off shark fins.
"Fins are the most lucrative part of the shark, which explains the massive escalation in the numbers of sharks killed in the last few years."The stunt aimed to show what happens to the animals when they are caught.
Campaigners say they are pulled from the water, their fins are sliced off and they are kicked back into the ocean.
They then sink to the bottom and suffer a slow death.
Although blood trickled down her back Alice insisted it did not hurt.
(I'll take her word for it.)
She claimed "I am doing this because the demand for shark fin soup and other shark products is wiping out the shark population."
The 15 minute stunt was sponsored by Lush and Shepherd Conservation Society.
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Fuck! It's cruel what they do, but will anyone who eats the soup or catch the sharks give a shit for what she did?
I don't mean to minimize the importance of what she just did, but it's like trying to stop a train with a matchbox in the rails.
the pic and article give me the willys, eeehhh
This can't miss. Nothing brings attention to an issue like "performance art."
Yeah Johnny, I hear the Obama campaign is pouring more money into it. People will dress up a shrubs and bushes and burn themselves.
Not too crazy about this. Sometimes in Denver PETA will do a protest and they'll have some chic, more or less nude, sitting in a cage. Don't know what that's supposed to convey, but it's nice to look at.
I have pictures of some guy doing the same thing that I use to teach my Psych students about abnormality in clinical diagnoses. I'm going to start using these pictures instead, because they're so much more graphic. I guess its a good thing I'm not actually a clinician, because it looks damn crazy to me.
As for the sharks..., screw 'em. PETA can also suck my cock (They fund terrorists who want to blow up my building).
I know a couple of people who have hung like this i guess its a zen thing to get over the inital pain.
how it fits into the save the sharks plan i dunno
I saw a shark near the pier doing the same thing. I didn't stop to ask him, but I'll bet he was doing it for her. Mmmhmmm. Bet ya.
Well, Baierman, I also saw two pro-Obama activists recently. One was dressed as a coin, the other as a star with "Washington DC" on it, and they were penis fencing...As I stood there rooting for the "change" to get "into" "Washington," I knew who I had to vote for...
It almost hurt to type that...almost...
Maybe she should have done this over an actual shark tank. Definitely would have spiced things up a bit.
kbk: I Agree with you Fuck PETA and the equine companion animal that accompanied them.
"Maybe she should have done this over an actual shark tank. Definitely would have spiced things up a bit."
Funniest thing on the site this whole week.
Atta kid Pablo.
I am printing this out and hanging it on my fridge because it is the best appetite suppressant I have seen in quite a while....
Gives new meaning to Shark Week, though....
Excuse me while I go retch....
thanks jw. Just doing my job as unofficial court jester.
Granted she's doing it to save sharks, it's sort of funny that the same set-up on the back of a boat, girl included, would be a good way to catch a shark to de-fin.
You owe me a new keyboard, Pablo... my coffee came through my nose straight into the keyboard...
Folks please stop the senseless destruction of keyboards. YBNBY posts and comnenters are prone to cause liquid to fly out from your oral cavitites (sorry for that image) So remember, no drinking and YBNBYing.
This public service announcement brought to by Nakkid PETA chicks, Change & DC and angry sharks.
And the worst is not the damaged keyboard, but I had to wash my nose... It sucks when you need to pour water into your nasal cavities.
Leo, try a Neti Pot. I keep one handy for just such an emergency.
oooo... sorry leo, i know how much that sucks...
I had to search it on the oracle (read google) since I didn't had the idea of what could it be...
We don't have it in Brazil (at least I haven't seen it) but I used the pump we use to clean my daughter's nose to wash the coffee away from my nostrils.
By the way, the first answer I had for my search was this video on youtbe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sDIbRAXlg
The woman's face is just hilarious... Lucky me I was not drinking anything now. It was a normal merchandise video, until the kraftwerk lady comes in and washes her nose like a robot changing its motor oil.
No problem Pablo. This kind of shit happens... I'm used to it... Looks like everybody I know likes to tell me their best jokes when I have my mouth full of some drink...
Perhaps we need to send someone out to stand on a street-corner dressed as a shorted-out keyboard with the "Y," "B," and "N" keys hanging off...nevermind...
I wonder what shoving those things through her earlobes was in protest of...
Dam!
I dont no why peple get al shit bond abot a dam shark.
Itss a daM FISH THAT EAT PEPLE!
ID cut thy nuts off if I cuud.
ass munke