Comes a photo from Lyons, France, that shows the incredible thing that can be accomplished when mankind sets its collective mindset to it. Over the weekend, nearly 1,500 men and women gathered for a photo shoot on the shipping docks of this city.
New York artist Spencer Tunick, who's shot crowds of naked people all over the world, directed the shoot. When the gates to the dock were opened, the crowd shed their clothes and took their places.
Addressing them from a crane suspended high above, Tunick told the crowd he saw the port as representing the mystery of commerce.
The point where the rivers Saone and Rhone joined was a meeting point that he liked to think of "as like the legs of a woman", he said.
He then shot the following photo, resulting in nearly 6,000 arms and legs pointing skyward in a kind of mass "mooning" of heaven.
It's difficult to imagine a comparable crowd in, say, Kansas or anywhere in America being capable of successfully accomplishing such a large cooperative effort without getting their collective asses thrown in jail. (Not that they'd probably mind their detention all that much.)
Oh, I suppose America's uptightness with certain body part exposures may eventually change, if not voluntarily, out of necessity. In fact, it's not difficult to imagine a day in the very near future when the following scene may become commonplace in airports all across America!
Thanks to BBC News for the top two photos
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