Comments on: One Sees Samba Art, One Just Sees Holocaust Victims and Hitler

By: Giyoret

Giyoret — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:58:44 +0000

Not a chance, Tom. Nice try

I was checking out various Brazilian websites and blogs and except for the few “free speech” advocates, the opinions expressed were all indignant and unified that this was in extremely poor taste.

So the baddies were cut off at the pass, vociferously condemned, and the message was put out there for people to learn something. Every cloud has a silver lining.

Ok, people, time to samba……

By: froylein

froylein — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:54:27 +0000

The Jewish aversion towards public nudity initially stems from medieval times, when religious authorities decided that ritual cleansing should not be done in rivers etc. anymore in order not to offend Christians’ views on nudity; Jewish prudery became established under American Puritan influence though. You may have noticed that many Jewish artists have portrayed nudes, in return a common prejudice in Europe during the 1920s to 1940s was that Jews spur pornography.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:15:00 +0000

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:07:49 +0000

To quote the Clintons on Obama: “by all means necessary….”

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:58:09 +0000

I am far from an authority on what is permitted on the Sabbath. I believe that it’s a mitzvah to schtupp, which may be an easier way to make sure that happens than, say, buying roses.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:55:39 +0000

Middle, that’s him. Julie’s website really doesn’t do his pieces justice. John works on an intimate scale; too bad you can’t click on those images to enlarge them.

On the same site– check out Gary Schneider, a Jewish artist b. South Africa, now living and working in NY. Gary’s portrait of yours truly is mercifully not reproduced online.

Is nakedness OK on the sabbath?

By: froylein

froylein — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:37:48 +0000

It's "Underwater Love" by Smoke City. You want more nudity?

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:34:25 +0000

That was a fine piece of music. Thanks! Who is the singer and what is the song?

Hey Tom, is this your buddy? saulgallery.co...

Interesting work. I’d appreciate less male and more female nudity in there, but you can’t have it all.

By: froylein

froylein — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:24:41 +0000

Flattering, Tom, but I look rather like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:21:41 +0000

You’re lookin’ good in that video, froylein!

By: froylein

froylein — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:10:57 +0000

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:58:10 +0000

Here’s my chance. Giyoret, I’ll trade ya your Brazilian music collection for my adidas Argentina jersey.

By: froylein

froylein — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:02:03 +0000

Giyoret, this article might give you a few extra ideas, but it very much sounds to have been for the shock effect.
Most people are shocked enough to learn that many of the dancers in those parades are actually male.

By: Giyoret

Giyoret — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:31:10 +0000

Oh, yuck. This can’t be all there is to the story! It is seriously too weird. Not to get all Bakhtin-y, but there must be an explanation and it can’t be that dead Jews and a live Hitler is fabulous entertainment.