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Disturbing.

Just when I thought I'd seen it all.

this would work best if it was a performance art exhibit inside of an actual house. i'd hate to be in the middle seat at the dining table.

Straight out of "A Clockwork Orange." Demeaning, elitist, yeah, right on.

tremendously creative. i don't picture them on display at my space but but definitely great gallery pieces.

Totally creative!

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It's kind of interesting, but it would be a little less "disturbing" if they weren't naked. They could just as easily be human furniture wearing wetsuits or something. But it's a very "Blue Man Group" concept...

I'll take a couple of bookshelves, a table and a lamp in every corner!

Ouch.
And they must have some sort of minimal covering on, or that guy on the top bookshelf would be dangling.

O.K. I'm officially awake.

Heh... I wonder where the switch is on that lamp.
The bookshelf is by far my favorite!

who knows their photoshop? looks like the only one without might be the "lamp".

This is why we don't have slaves today.

Just too hard to keep dusted and polished.

I'm guessing the guys in the bookshelf are tucked.

it's the same guy some photoshop adjustments..

if you think about it......you can't really tuck and then wobble and maneuver yourself into those positions....someone had to assist with the tucking......

it's the same guy some photoshop adjustments..

it's the same guy with some photoshop adjustments..

i just noticed that, stava.

neato!

according to the note above, it's one guy - the photographer is also the subject. i'm assuming he uses photoshop or similar to work out the details. pretty neat.

Sorry, but it reminds me of the recent torture pictures seen all over the news, lately...

love it.

wtf?

there is not a word that covers this. Dumb is working, and the last thing I want,need or appreciate is crappola that is supposed to un-nerve me. I have 3 kids al in or close to their 40's. I feel way over thought provoking anything.

aria2000, I'm with you, vis-a-vis torture, especially the ironing board photo

just noticed the dining room table, wow, finally a place to ditch the brussell sprouts

I'm sorry, but the "lamp" actually made me chuckle.

"I'm guessing the guys in the bookshelf are tucked."

That reminds me of my second ex-husband...

Why?

Honestly, I don't understand why people are discussed with naked human bodies. Come on!

I could max out a credit card with these. Very creative. Of course they aren't for every room or every home.

Wow- Just when I thought my 2 most favorite blogs would never, ever cross paths....
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I think I have too much "stuffing" to be casegoods. Perhaps I would make a nice sofa, or a beanbag chair instead...

I liked it better before I read that it is all him. I think it would be more interesting if he actually accomplished these feats rather than using photoshop.

Very disturbing...

things that make you go ewww...
but I would hire the lamp guy for a party

I'm with brittanykate, I loved the idea until I found out it was one guy photoshoped. This would make for amazing performance art.

I do find it funny people are so disturbed by naked people.

I quite like this. I especially like the last one with the crooked TV.

It's art. Some art is good and some is bad. This is bad but that is just my opinion.

I am sure their are people who love it and we should respect that.

Do you use a feather duster to clean these?

lol geez, the comments are wonderful! I'm trying to grasp this. It's not the nudity that bothers me... I think hmm... I really don't know about this. It's funny, but it might just gives me this awkward feeling. Like cartoons from the late 70s/early 80s that are kind of grainy. *shiver*

I dislike how quickly many are to point out that it's a computer-manipulated photograph. So what if it's been Photoshopped? It's not as though the artist simply cut and pasted one pose to collage together an image. The model had to be photographed in very precise poses and then those pieces had to be carefully stitched together in post-production to give the illusion that it's one complete photo. The work is flawless in that regard, because it truly gives the impression of many people making up the furniture. Beyond that, the other technical aspects of the photos are great, and the subject matter is provocative and (dare I say it?) downright cheeky.

That's a very interesting idea. too bad it was done with photoshop. very poorly done, too. Just the fact of using photoshop is not the problem - in the past photographers were using many "tricks" to get to similar things we get today faster using photoshop... but in this case, i think it would a lot if it was all done with real people (I mean many creating a sculpture, not one repeated or so).

But I do like the bookshelves :)

I'm with Original Nancy. This looks more like bad photoshop work done for a catalogue. It's not the figure is a nude, it's that it's a dumb idea.

I don't mind the subject, it's the way that they are presented as a "photo" and should, maybe, be called a "digital image." (But if I stand up on that soap box I might not get down.) But they're interesting images, he seems to have a good sense of humor, and art doesn't have to be serious all the time!

YUCK!

I would like to turn the light off-where is the switch. This is good for a laugh

Betty14 - re: the light switch....ROFLMAO!! good one!!!

these images are so surreal

ok...a 2nd look (yes i confess i looked again...lol) and now i'm reminded of M.C. Escher

i don't think people are bothered by the nudity, it's the dehumanizing nudity that's bothersome. I agree with the people who said it's reminiscent of torture or slavery, but it seems it's done in a way that is supposed to make us think, "oh, how clever," as though the artist didn't realize this connection.

That aside, I don't find it terribly creative. An interesting way to play around, maybe, but it seems like one of those ideas that, while helpful for creative juices, didn't get past the novelty stage and so doesn't feel like solidly presentable work.

But that said, I'm willing to keep thinking about it.

Dang I thought this site showed us things we could buy for our homes. At first I thought it was bunch of guys hummm ok I do know some that would do it .. ( but I doubt they would make a 3 shelf thing going before something else happened ( VEG) . ...Maj

Interesting opinions expressed.

Sadly the body is the loser, losing its humanity and not truly becoming a part of Humanity or even of Beauty (capitals intended).

I love bare trees, knowing that I think they are no longer "hiding" their inner souls behind their soon to come leaves and flowers; but, in truth, every bare tree has so much going on inside it that even when it shares its foliage with us (and, to my childlike mind, is therefore hiding itself from me), it is still the stately strong Tree, with a capital T.

And, these bare ones are sharing what with us?? Could it be humor and I am just a tightassed little old lady?

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I swear in the first photo the left bookend is his johnson.

Poor ironing board guy.

AT editors, do you realize that this is a sexual fetish called "fornophilia"? It's a subcategory of Sado-Masochistic practices. I know this because I'm a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance and I've studied radical sub-cultures, especially in performance. The entire point of this kind of practice is to completely humiliation, dehumanize, and inflict suffering on the "sub" (subordinate partner) for the pleasure and entertainment of the "dom" (dominant partner.) I think this artist is laughing up his sleeve at all the "normal people" who are taking this seriously as art. This guy did this because he has a fetish, and part of the fetish is being seen by others in these humiliating poses. I'm surprised that AT posted this. Frankly, it's porn.

I'm sorry... this isn't art... it's just stupid.

I'm on the fence about this one.

the ironing board really is creepy to me. the others are weird but the ironing board shot is just disturbing.

I think it's actually quite brilliant - it's a MALE figure in the domestic environment, a departure from the typical female representation. Additionally, he is nude, another departure. Demeaning and demoralising shouldn't be part of the judgment, since the photographer is the model. It is a bit creepy, but I am glad we don't live in a world where all art is sanitized and safe, and I like that some people get icked out by it. That means we all have different tastes.

And don't necessarily assume it's photoshop. Photographers have been using mulitple exposures, masks, and darkroom manipulation since the beginning of photography in order to achieve the final image they are going for...this could very well be all darkroom magic...but if it's not, so what? Photoshop isn't exactly a 'click cut paste' process, if you want to do it really really well, and you need to start off with really well done images in the first place.

I say Bravo to this work, thanks for featuring it.

Creepy. I'm not bothered by the nakedness....I just don't like....art form?