New York native Spencer Tunick continues his long term project of photographing massive numbers of nudes in one take, this time taking to the streets of Cork (June 17) and Dublin (June 21), two major cities in Ireland.
Tunick has already started his volunteer model recruitment drive via a website dedicated to the event ((www.spencertunickireland.ie). Public nudity is illegal in Ireland, but the artist usually has no problems getting cities to host and fund his installations, as they’re prestigious events which receive enormous press coverage around the globe.
Tunick will also shoot in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, this time with a football theme in honor of the European championship which will take place in that city in June. Tunick hopes to beat his old record of 18,000 thousand nude participants, as the shoot location will be the Ernest Happel stadium, which has a 50,000 capacity.

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We’re back again with another tour of the nude universe using Google Earth! Just download this zip file, open it up and click on each of the files it contains. Google Earth will transport you to the following prime nudist destinations:

1- Black’s beach, near San Diego, California.
2- Colina do Sol, a nudist community in Brazil.
3- Eden Bay, a all-nude resort in the Dominican Republic.
4- Lady Jane beach, in Sydney, Australia.
5- Oka, beach near Montreal, Canada.
6- Playa Chihuahua, a beach near Punta del Este, Uruguay.
7- Praia do Pinho, beach in southern Brazil.
8- Terra Cotta Inn, a resort in Palm Springs, California.
9- Vera Playa, a nudist city in Andalucia, Spain.

Japan is a very modern country with a liberal society, but it has virtually nothing to offer to nudists, whether they be Japanese or visitors from abroad. There are no nudist beaches, no nudist resorts, no nude swim nights. Nothing!
While public nudity was common in ancient Japan, the European influence eventually uprooted old traditions such as mixed gender bathing. Nowadays, nudity is seen as erotic and what may be presented as nudism will invariably be sexual in nature. For example, there’s an indoor “nudist club” in Tokyo where indeed you can socialize naked…if you don’t mind that they show adult films and men openly masturbate.
This isn’t to say Japanese nudists don’t exist…They do, but they’re almost covert! Here’s hoping for a Japanese nudist revolution!

Friday, April 18, 2008 - A woman carrying an infant casually removes all her clothing in the middle of a popular central Buenos Aires square and ambles about, oblivious to the stares of the crowds.
The woman was none other than “Avril X”, as she calls herself, who has repeated this scene on many other occasions in this city as well as the Argentinean resort of Mar del Plata since 2004. It’s all part of “Urbanudismo”, a photographic art project, featuring her and the reactions of the ordinary people who cross her path whilst she’s in a state of undress. While she’s gained a measure of fame through her live exhibits, it’s also resulted in her arrest several times, as public nudity isn’t legal in Argentina, a country which, however, boasts several nudist clubs.
Avril, a web designer, has never publicly claimed that she’s a nudist even though she spends a large part of her time naked, sometimes during interviews. Several prominent members of the nudist community in her country hissed that she’s an exhibitionist, not a nudist. A large number of photographs from the installations can be viewed free on her web site (in Spanish, requires registration).

Urbanudismo web site

Google Earth is a fantastic free tool that allows you to visit virtually any part of the world in an instant. You can zoom-in to a location right down to street level where you can view an abundance of third party photos just by clicking on icons.
Nudist venues, especially beaches, are hard to locate, thus Nudist Day took the step of pinpointing some of the more famous nudist places for you, using Google Earth to bring you there effortlessly!
All you have to do is download this zip file onto your hard drive. Open it up and click on each of the “kmz” files it contains and Google Earth will spring to life and take you to the beach or resort. Of course, you must have Google Earth installed!
Our virtual tour is as follows:
1- Cap d’Agde, France: The naked city which every nudist must physically visit at least once.
2- Club Orient, St Martin: The coveted nudist vacation complex and beach in the French Antilles.
3- Englischer Garten, Munich, Germany: The famous nude sunning area in the middle of a city park.
4- Gunnison nudist beach, New Jersey: The wide sandy beach where New Yorkers flock in summer.
5- Haulover nudist beach, Sunny Isles, Florida: The hugely popular strand in the Miami area.
6- La Tejita beach, Tenerife, Canary Islands: You can be nude anywhere in Spain, but here you’ll have lots of company hiking, swimming and sunning in the buff.
7- Paradise Lakes: The hip, entertaining nudist resort near Tampa, Florida.
8- Wreck beach, BC, Canada: The venerable nudist beach with the breathtaking scenery.
9- Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico: The only legal nudist beach in Mexico in a tropical wonderland.

We hope you enjoyed traveling with us, and stay tuned for another virtual tour of the world’s best places to be ‘au naturel!’.