All around the mulberry bush...
March 12, 2011 8:10 PM Subscribe
I was doing some research on Dryads when I stumbled upon the TreeSpirit Project. To cut to the chase, it appears to be a series of artful, tasteful photographs of people dancing butt-naked around trees. What more can I say? Well, other than NSFW, obviously...
Found during a routine search for "dryads + butt-naked"
posted by supercrayon at 8:20 PM on March 12, 2011 [9 favorites]
posted by supercrayon at 8:20 PM on March 12, 2011 [9 favorites]
I would tell those damn hippies to get off my lawn, except they seem to have become my lawn.
BRB, watering lawn.
posted by loquacious at 8:24 PM on March 12, 2011 [8 favorites]
BRB, watering lawn.
posted by loquacious at 8:24 PM on March 12, 2011 [8 favorites]
I was doing some research on Dryads
fuckyeahdryads.tumblr.com is available...
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:24 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
fuckyeahdryads.tumblr.com is available...
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:24 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
It was a good choice on their part to make 'Mission' the first link on their navigation bar, since my immediate reaction upon seeing the photos was "What in God's name do all these naked white people think they're accomplishing with this?" Still, they should probably follow that up with a 'Results' page that's just the Picard facepalm animated gif.
posted by "Elbows" O'Donoghue at 8:37 PM on March 12, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by "Elbows" O'Donoghue at 8:37 PM on March 12, 2011 [2 favorites]
Thanks for sharing, jim in austin. This is a good one.
posted by Ardiril at 8:37 PM on March 12, 2011
posted by Ardiril at 8:37 PM on March 12, 2011
I don't post often but occasionally you stumble across one that veritably screams MeFi...
posted by jim in austin at 8:42 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by jim in austin at 8:42 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Really, are there any untasteful photos of naked people dancing around trees?
posted by Threeway Handshake at 8:48 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Threeway Handshake at 8:48 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Wow...
*looks again*
... Wow.
Some people have too much free time and know way too many people willing to get naked in trees.
Or something.
posted by strixus at 9:02 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
*looks again*
... Wow.
Some people have too much free time and know way too many people willing to get naked in trees.
Or something.
posted by strixus at 9:02 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
♬ "Those were the days, my friends. We thought they'd never end." ♬
Go ahead and sing the whole verse for that picture.
posted by Ardiril at 9:02 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Go ahead and sing the whole verse for that picture.
posted by Ardiril at 9:02 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
A second fast thought: this is the revenge for all the trees that are about to coat me in their sex particles over the next few months, right?
posted by strixus at 9:02 PM on March 12, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by strixus at 9:02 PM on March 12, 2011 [3 favorites]
I find these strangely appealing. The black and white are better, the people blend with the trees more in them. This is my favorite.
posted by not that girl at 9:51 PM on March 12, 2011
posted by not that girl at 9:51 PM on March 12, 2011
Huh. That's interesting. It looks like dryad and druid may derive from the same indo-european root.
posted by kernel_sander at 10:08 PM on March 12, 2011
posted by kernel_sander at 10:08 PM on March 12, 2011
They're fascinating to watch during this phase, but if you don't clear them away they'll of course bore into the bark and secrete their eggs, and then you risk losing the entire forest to them.
posted by pracowity at 10:10 PM on March 12, 2011 [11 favorites]
posted by pracowity at 10:10 PM on March 12, 2011 [11 favorites]
Yep. Those are some naked people.
I hope they didn't get splinters.
posted by Windigo at 10:11 PM on March 12, 2011
I hope they didn't get splinters.
posted by Windigo at 10:11 PM on March 12, 2011
It's like the end of Antichrist, except mellow.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:12 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:12 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Welp, I'm always in favor of people getting naked in trees, but not so much of taking photos of it. But I liked these more than I expected. Maybe I've had a bit to drink
I guess it's just interesting to see how people connect to the world in ways I wouldn't have thought of.
posted by hattifattener at 10:48 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
I guess it's just interesting to see how people connect to the world in ways I wouldn't have thought of.
posted by hattifattener at 10:48 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
untasteful photos of naked people dancing around trees?
Sort of. (NSFW)
posted by poe at 11:23 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Sort of. (NSFW)
posted by poe at 11:23 PM on March 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Attractive and interesting photos, but I'd question describing them as tasteful nudes.
posted by arnicae at 11:23 PM on March 12, 2011
posted by arnicae at 11:23 PM on March 12, 2011
Hey, I'm in a couple of these photos. I never thought something I was a part of would be linked to in the blue, but what do you know. Made my day.
posted by hangingbyathread at 11:34 PM on March 12, 2011 [8 favorites]
posted by hangingbyathread at 11:34 PM on March 12, 2011 [8 favorites]
There was less dancing than I expected, but more art and taste. And bark.
posted by DU at 3:33 AM on March 13, 2011
posted by DU at 3:33 AM on March 13, 2011
Ha, I bet those ents are still talking about it..."Best day ever."
posted by iamkimiam at 5:02 AM on March 13, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by iamkimiam at 5:02 AM on March 13, 2011 [3 favorites]
This one made me realize that I really should look up more when just walking around the city. Squirrels are dangerous enough.
posted by jeanmari at 6:47 AM on March 13, 2011
posted by jeanmari at 6:47 AM on March 13, 2011
So... unless I've got the wrong end of the stick here... you see what I did there... if there were more seriously tree-loving people like in these photos, maybe we wouldn't have all these environmental problems, right? Should I wish this guy and his friends had a massive budget, as big as the advertising budgets of all the hardware and DIY stores in the world combined, and would unleash a relentless and enduring barrage of high-end production value treepr0n?
A ton of Ent movies and TV taking over, tree magazines (online only, never printed of course), tree psychology ("which tree are you?"), people making pilgrimages to famous trees; DIY tree culture experiencing an upsurge as people blog, twitter and post about making friends with local trees. Overhearing discussions on street corners and in public transport comparing the finer points of individual branching patterns and idiosynchracies of people's favourite trees.
No two trees of course being quite the same and the tree being the Jungian archetypal representation of the self, people's 24/7 fascination with trees might suddenly end the industrial century of puzzling together one's identity through brands. After a hundred years or so the tree would finally be widely recognised as having brought about the century of true self-realisation on a grand public scale and the environment would be stable once more. P.S. This one is kind of sweet: Out of the womb.
posted by yoHighness at 6:58 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
A ton of Ent movies and TV taking over, tree magazines (online only, never printed of course), tree psychology ("which tree are you?"), people making pilgrimages to famous trees; DIY tree culture experiencing an upsurge as people blog, twitter and post about making friends with local trees. Overhearing discussions on street corners and in public transport comparing the finer points of individual branching patterns and idiosynchracies of people's favourite trees.
No two trees of course being quite the same and the tree being the Jungian archetypal representation of the self, people's 24/7 fascination with trees might suddenly end the industrial century of puzzling together one's identity through brands. After a hundred years or so the tree would finally be widely recognised as having brought about the century of true self-realisation on a grand public scale and the environment would be stable once more. P.S. This one is kind of sweet: Out of the womb.
posted by yoHighness at 6:58 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
PS Quite obviously I'm totally baked, beautiful Sunday morning isn't it!
posted by yoHighness at 7:00 AM on March 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by yoHighness at 7:00 AM on March 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
Bolsters the notion I had watching families at the Niagara water park last weekend. People are monkeys.
posted by bonobothegreat at 7:04 AM on March 13, 2011
posted by bonobothegreat at 7:04 AM on March 13, 2011
The Tea Tree Tangle photo reminds me of the scenes in Devil's Advocate, when the Ex Nihilo sculpture comes to life (especially before they changed those scenes).
posted by Houstonian at 7:27 AM on March 13, 2011
posted by Houstonian at 7:27 AM on March 13, 2011
Oh, hey, I know the photographer; Jack used to be on my hawkwatch team. Very nice guy, good hawkwatcher, and I like his photos but have no desire to be nakedly draped on a tree. He's also famous (for certain values of famous) for a photo of people running naked across the Golden Gate Bridge.
posted by rtha at 8:04 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by rtha at 8:04 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
These are very nice. I'm struck by the scale and texture in all of them. Interesting how they are almost all posed so that you don't see any faces. It lends to their otherworldly quality.
posted by meinvt at 8:06 AM on March 13, 2011
posted by meinvt at 8:06 AM on March 13, 2011
Huh. That's interesting. It looks like dryad and druid may derive from the same indo-european root.
I discovered the same thing while leafing through my dictionary. I wonder, when did these two words branch from one another? I wooden't have any way of knowing. I guess I should stick to what I do know, so as knot to bark up the wrong [etc.]
posted by sleevener at 8:13 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
I discovered the same thing while leafing through my dictionary. I wonder, when did these two words branch from one another? I wooden't have any way of knowing. I guess I should stick to what I do know, so as knot to bark up the wrong [etc.]
posted by sleevener at 8:13 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Hey, I like trees and I like naked people! Thanks for this!
Also: Some joke about nuts.
posted by Ron Thanagar at 8:56 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Also: Some joke about nuts.
posted by Ron Thanagar at 8:56 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Too much dude-ass, not enough chick-ass.
posted by jonmc at 9:05 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by jonmc at 9:05 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Ah california. God I love it here.
posted by Jibuzaemon at 10:42 AM on March 13, 2011
posted by Jibuzaemon at 10:42 AM on March 13, 2011
I'm surprised we haven't heard anything about Shub-Niggurath yet.
posted by JHarris at 9:42 PM on March 13, 2011
posted by JHarris at 9:42 PM on March 13, 2011
Like rtha, I know the photographer, and he's a great guy. Here's an article about a specific set of photos he took in trees people were trying to save. And here's the best version I could find of the photo of naked skaters on the Golden Gate Bridge.
posted by gingerbeer at 10:35 PM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by gingerbeer at 10:35 PM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
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