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NSFW Photos: 100 Totally Naked People Got Painted In Midtown NYC
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Published Jul 10, 2016
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Approximately 100 people got completely naked yesterday afternoon in the middle of Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and, over the course of several hours and with thousands of people watching, were transformed into works of living art.
The occasion was the third annual NYC Bodypainting Day, organized once again by the irrepressible Andy Golub. This year's theme was "Inner Beauty" and the models came in a wide variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
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Of course, 100 naked people getting painted (or, really, doing anything) in public in Manhattan is guaranteed to attract at least as many photographers, so to accommodate the ever-growing crowds of shooters, spectators, and basic voyeurs, Golub set up viewing platforms behind the borrowed NYPD barricades.
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After the painting was finished all the models piled onto a pair of those double-decker tour buses for what was likely an attention-getting journey around town.
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