Remember story a few weeks back where a tree sitters fell out of a tree on
the  University of California campus? You gotta see this.

"Memorial Oak Grove"

Last year, the University of California announced that it was going to
build a new athletic training facility next to Memorial Stadium at the
eastern edge of the  campus. Unfortunately, in order to build the facility
as planned, the University must remove several oak trees that are currently
growing on the site.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, local activists have seized on the
fate of the "Memorial Oak Grove" as the cause du jour, and a
vigorous campaign has been launched to stop the project and save the trees.
To that end, protesters have been actually living in the trees since
December of 2006, alternating in shifts every few days or weeks. The
controversy has received an inordinate amount of media coverage.

Completely unrelated to any of this, a local art photographer named Jack
Gescheidt has recently become well-known for a photo series he calls the
"TreeSpirit Project," which involves naked models pictured
climbing and hugging trees. But when Gescheidt heard about the Memorial Oak
Grove brouhaha, he sensed a perfect media opportunity. He announced that
the next installment in his Tree Spirit Project would be a nude photo shoot
among the oak trees next to Memorial Stadium. And this time he wouldn't use
only professional models: he issued an open call for anyone and everyone to
come get naked for the trees.

And so on Saturday, March 17, 2007, the planets came into alignment and a
disparate confluence of people found themselves gathered together in the
oak grove: tree-sitters, nudists, activists, journalists, Jack Gescheidt
and his assistant, perverts, pornographers, the police and passersby. And
yours truly.

This is a record of that day.

http://tinyurl.com/yt38sv

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