NEW NAKED BEAUTY: BODY & SOUL
Nature is naked beauty. And some of the world’s most vocal environmentally conscious celebrities, including Elle McPherson, Emma Watson, Adrian Grenier, Arizona Muse, and Christy Turlington, posed to share their own personal beauty with portrait photographer James Houston to raise awareness for environmental issues. “Natural Beauty
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The photos emphasize the naked simplicity of both the human form and natural objects such as a flower, drift wood, stone, coral or metal. Emma Watson chose to pose dripping wet and naked for her contribution.
Arizona Muse pairs her naked beauty with that of a crow in this film short version of Natural Beauty project.
Arizona Muse: Natural Beauty on Nowness.com
The “Natural Beauty” book was released during World Earth Week 2013 in New York and Los Angeles, in collaboration with MILK Galleries NYC, to raise awareness and funds for the environment and sustainable living. Sales of the book benefit Global Green USA.
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“Beauty in Truth” is a poignant documentary about the extraordinary life of poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Alice Walker. Walker began life as a sharecropper’s daughter, sharpening her pencil along with her political point of view as she grew.
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Her brilliant way with words and her powerful story-telling talents produced the groundbreaking novel, movie, and play, “The Color Purple,” among others. Walker’s characters speak in their own naked unadulterated language.
“I am the woman
offering two flowers
whose roots
are twin
Justice and Hope
Hope and Justice
Let us begin.”
From: “Remember?” by Alice Walker
She has lent her compelling voice to causes with the aim to protect the interests of marginalized people, such as those who are victims of racism, sexism, and economic bias. Featuring testimonials from collaborators and peers, including Steven Spielberg, Yoko Ono, Sapphire, Gloria Steinem, Quincy Jones, and Peter Guber, as well as intimate interviews with Walker herself, directed by Pratibha Parmar, “Beauty in Truth” is a beautiful, frank portrait.
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There is a special kind of beauty found when a person has been stripped of all their worldly goods and physical prowess. “Naked Hope: Discovering Beauty In Our Vulnerability
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In her TED talk about changing Chinese culture, Yang Lan tells us about a new popular phenomenon called “naked wedding,” in which two lovers come together to get married bringing nothing to the party --- no house, no car, no diamond ring, no wedding banquet, nothing but their beautiful selves, to show their commitment to true love.
Check out the rest of our posts on Naked Beauty this week in Arts/Design, Food/Drink, Mind/Body, Place/Time, Nature/Science, and Soul Impact. And enter our new photo competition. The theme: Naked Beauty (Deadline, July 28th, 2013).
