Flaming Lips video shoot in a Portland Park

[Klondike]

Darn! And where was I - a scant 15 miles away when all this was occuring? YUP! These pics are from a Flaming Lips video shoot that took place yesterday in Mt Tabor Park, Portland, OR. Flickr has pics from at least four different photogs up, so I'm sure nobody would have minded if one more had shown up. And had I known about this, you can be sure I would have been there and would have made sure a few more full frontal pics were recorded for "posterity" (if that is the appropriate word to use, or is it "anterity"?) Anyway, after the shoot, there was a short naked bike ride. Pedro, are you listening? The world seems to be, at any rate - these naked bike rides are becoming as common as summertime skinny dips!

Here are the pics I've come up with so far. I'm hoping some other, better ones surface.

KLondike

[Fango]

Good stuff, especially because you just know the video is going to be censored. Though I'd be happy to be proved wrong on that.

Thanks

Fango

[crispus]

Couple more; for full size and to check on future additions, there's now a flickr pool: Flaming Lips video shoots, Portland, September 23-24, 2009

[Fango]

Originally Posted by crispus

Couple more; for full size and to check on future additions, there's now a flickr pool: Flaming Lips video shoots, Portland, September 23-24, 2009

Here's an easy access link: hxxp://www.flickr.com/groups/1269430@N22/pool/

Thanks

Fango

[KarlMalone]

Great stuff! Here's a news account in case anyone is interested:

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2009/09/24...rtainmentmusic

The Flaming Lips have called on fans to strip and cycle for the band's new video.

Inspired by Portland, Oregon's annual World Naked Bike Ride, the promo for Watching the Planets is being shot at Mount Tabor in Oregon on Wednesday - and Flaming Lips frontman Kevin Coyne called on fans to join him for the naked fun.

Coyne says he thought of the idea while watching footage from the 2009 World Naked Bike Ride: "I first thought, 'That's preposterous,' and then right away, 'That would be good for a video.'"

[Klondike]

Thanks karl and fango - this is exactly what I mean when I talk gleefully about the spread of naked bike rides. He saw WNBR pics on the internet and thought "man, that would be a great idea!" This makes all the work I do as a photographer seem worthwhile!!

One of the guys that attended and posted pics at Flickr told me he heard about it thru twitter. that is another point to make - keep your ears and eyes on twitter if you want to know whats going on in your area.

And Crispus - thanks!! You da man (again)....

KLondike

[treed1]

Found a couple more.

[Pedro the Fisherman]

I hope those last two shots are for the censored USA version of the video and they make a fully naked one for us liberated Europeans

[crispus]

Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman

I hope those last two shots are for the censored USA version of the video and they make a fully naked one for us liberated Europeans

Hope this satisfactorily assuages your concerns, at least for how it was shot if not for what the final result might be...

[Klondike]

Originally Posted by crispus

Hope this satisfactorily assuages your concerns, at least for how it was shot if not for what the final result might be...

this is what I like about this event - no body paint. I mean, for once, you have a totally unobstructed view of skin.

Klondike