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Gauthier
05-10-2008, 07:21
Naked clown calendar -- now that's scary (http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_10538885)

Clowns — make that 21 naked clowns— are coming to haunt your dreams.

Graduates of San Francisco's Clown Conservatory Class of 2008 have stripped down to their birthday suits to make a 2009 Naked Clown Calendar, a joyful and humourous work of art the clowns hope to sell in honor of a beloved mentor paralysed from the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) and others stricken with the disease.

These aren't the usual photos of clowns at kids' parties or falling out of cars. No, they're photos of clowns tumbling though the air, performing songs in the park or flying out of cannons — with pies and top hats hiding the naughty bits.

"Our goal was to create this sort of craziness in your mind," says Chad Benjamin Potter, the lead clown on the project. "When you think of clowns you think of costumes and makeup and hair. When you think naked clowns, that's something else entirely."

The idea came about when clowns studying their first year at the San Francisco Circus Center's Clown Conservatory started talking about how great they felt, physically, thanks to all the training. They also felt they'd bonded in a unique way. They started talking about what they could do together and the idea of a clown calendar came up. Next thing they knew, someone suggested doing it in the buff.

"But of course we wanted to do something that everyone can enjoy," Potter says, noting the calendar does offer a touch of modesty. "I am going to sell (the calendar) to my grandmother and I also want to sell it to my niece and my nephew."

In the city's Sunset District, Judy Finelli's eyes are bright as she offers a guest to have a look at the Naked Clown Calender a home helper placed in her lap. Finelli, 60, is a lifelong clown who co-founded the San Francisco School for Circus Arts, now the Circus Center. In 1989 she was diagnosed with MS. Today she is quadriplegic.

Sales of the calendar will help raise money for the Judy Finelli Fund, a non-profit organization set up through the Circus Center. The fund works with the MS Foundation of Florida to do advocacy and research. It also will provide scholarships to people with MS who want to do circus arts

"It's done with a smile, it's done with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge kind of thing," Finelli says of the calendar, which she clearly enjoys. "I'm grateful they put me on the back of the calendar, but I'm also grateful they didn't ask me to strip!"

The photography was done by art student Gabriela Alonso in a studio and, secretly, in public places.

LaRena R. Iocco, who shares August with her clowning partner Lindsey Jones, says taking her photos in a San Francisco park was "a little nervewracking but thrilling."

A helper stood guard with bathrobes while Iocco and Jones posed in a grove of trees, a guitar and ukulele positioned just right.

Photographer Alonso would steal as many shots as she could until the helper warned that someone was coming.

"We would have to throw on bathrobes and just chill," Iocco says.

The clowns have a lofty goal of raising $1 million selling the 16-month calendars. No word yet about what sheningans they've planned for 2010.

How long before we're assaulted by waves of Clown Porn?
Barringtonia
05-10-2008, 07:31
A helper stood guard with bathrobes while Iocco and Jones posed in a grove of trees, a guitar and ukulele positioned just right.

I've been watching ukeleles for some time now, they seem to be rising in popularity over the last 2-3 years.

I've long suspected clowns are behind it all, I jut don't know why...
Moon Knight
05-10-2008, 07:36
I want one. CLOWNS FTW!!!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
05-10-2008, 07:38
When you think of clowns you think of costumes and makeup and hair. When you think naked clowns, that's something else entirely.
It may surprise Mr. Chad Benjamin Potter very much to learn that I try not to think of naked clowns, actually. I have devoted at least 5% of my brain to preventing any thoughts, dreams, or mental pictures of clown nudity from forming in my brain, and this self-censorship works very well.
Barringtonia
05-10-2008, 07:52
Also, what is this 16 month agenda that clowns have?

The clowns have a lofty goal of raising $1 million selling the 16-month calendars

It's all very suspicious.
Anti-Social Darwinism
05-10-2008, 07:52
Didn't we already have the clown sex thread(s)? And weren't they locked by our loving and all-wise mods?
Christmahanikwanzikah
05-10-2008, 08:00
Ask Smunk.
South Lizasauria
05-10-2008, 08:47
Naked clown calendar -- now that's scary (http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_10538885)



How long before we're assaulted by waves of Clown Porn?

I do not know whether or not to laugh hysterically or vomit in utter terror. :confused::eek:
Lunatic Goofballs
05-10-2008, 11:01
i've been watching ukeleles for some time now, they seem to be rising in popularity over the last 2-3 years.

I've long suspected clowns are behind it all, i jut don't know why...

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Hurdegaryp
05-10-2008, 21:07
How long before we're assaulted by waves of Clown Porn?

Not only does clown porn exist, there's even an organization dedicated to bringing an end to the vile perversion of clown pornography. Click the link (http://www.stopclownpornnow.org/) if you want to know more.
South Lizasauria
05-10-2008, 21:34
not only does clown porn exist, there's even an organization dedicated to bringing an end to the vile perversion of clown pornography. Click the link (http://www.stopclownpornnow.org/) if you want to know more.

rofl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Articoa
05-10-2008, 22:01
Oh no, it's this train wreck again...
New Wallonochia
05-10-2008, 22:03
Not only does clown porn exist, there's even an organization dedicated to bringing an end to the vile perversion of clown pornography. Click the link (http://www.stopclownpornnow.org/) if you want to know more.

Whatever that is, Kuwait's firewall blocks it.
Hurdegaryp
05-10-2008, 22:40
It's reasonable to assume that Kuwait's society wants to avoid contamination of their culture with godless Western perversions.
New Wallonochia
05-10-2008, 22:57
It's reasonable to assume that Kuwait's society wants to avoid contamination of their culture with godless Western perversions.

They're awful selective about it, I saw a Wendy's the other day about 20m from a mosque just outside of Kuwait City.
Lunatic Goofballs
05-10-2008, 23:32
They're awful selective about it, I saw a Wendy's the other day about 20m from a mosque just outside of Kuwait City.

Mmm! Jr Bacon Sinburger! Mmm....
New Ziedrich
06-10-2008, 01:21
Didn't we already have the clown sex thread(s)? And weren't they locked by our loving and all-wise mods?

Yep. I remember this all too well, since I had posted a thread about the crappiness of the GameFAQs forums (where I also managed to somehow forget that FAQ is an acronym, leading some to believe I had typed "GameFags" instead) which accidentally got merged with one of the locked clown sex threads, which in turn somehow created a new copy of my thread. With the four(!) seperate clown sex threads and my stupid thread cloning itself in an attempt to survive, that was one weird-ass day for this forum.

Considering the typical state of this forum, that's really saying something.
Hurdegaryp
06-10-2008, 01:54
By the time I became aware of those rather special clown threads, every single one of them was already closed by the moderators. That made me a little bit sad.
South Lizasauria
06-10-2008, 04:31
By the time I became aware of those rather special clown threads, every single one of them was already closed by the moderators. That made me a little bit sad.

It was just as I said in that one clown thread. Clowns have suffered under bigotry and prejudice for many ages. And still do. :(
Barringtonia
06-10-2008, 04:32
It was just as I said in that one clown thread. Clowns have suffered under bigotry and prejudice for many ages. And still do. :(

For very good reason too.
South Lizasauria
06-10-2008, 04:34
For very good reason too.

BIGOT! :mad::rolleyes:
Gauthier
06-10-2008, 04:38
It was just as I said in that one clown thread. Clowns have suffered under bigotry and prejudice for many ages. And still do. :(

For very good reason too.

Because they're often mistaken for mimes?
Barringtonia
06-10-2008, 05:14
Because they're often mistaken for mimes?

Clearly you've never heard of CIRCA (http://www.clownarmy.org/), or perhaps you didn't know that during the Soviet era, only clowns were able to criticise government and get away with it, why was that?

Oh there's much, much more...
Lunatic Goofballs
06-10-2008, 05:15
Clearly you've never heard of CIRCA (http://www.clownarmy.org/), or perhaps you didn't know that during the Soviet era, only clowns were able to criticise government and get away with it, why was that?

Oh there's much, much more...

*whistles innocently*
New Wallonochia
06-10-2008, 05:40
Mmm! Jr Bacon Sinburger! Mmm....

There's an Applebee's in Kuwait City too, and if that's not sin I don't know what is.