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Media Coverage
Reprinted from the Greensboro News and Record
Saturday, July 22, 2006 edition
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Reidsville Couple Aimed for World Record
By Sonja Elmquist
REIDSVILLE -- One problem with doing something new is that it's hard to describe.
Reidsville artist Scott Fray's most recent endeavor is like dying Easter eggs. And like a car wash. And like parking cars at a rock concert. And like being a rock star.
But what it's really like is 337 people in a field in upstate New York wearing head-to-toe paint and not much else.
Fray, 41, and his partner, Madelyn Greco, 37, another Reidsville artist, now hold a Guinness World Record for body painting. On July 15, at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, N.Y., they beat the record held since 2004 by 254 high school basketball fans in Pikeville, Ky.
The couple, who travel to body-painting festivals around the world, took the world-record attempt to the clothing-optional campground, where they came up with the idea last year as a way to bring more attention to the art form.
Last weekend's event involved 15 gallons of paint in five colors, distributed among five kiddie pools. Participants stepped into a pool (this is the egg dye part), where an assistant sponged paint on -- a la car wash.
Slopping on paint with a sponge isn't Fray's normal style. A normal work may take hours.
"I love to be turned into a piece of art," Greco said. "It's like being a rock star for a day. It's like being famous."
Once the painting of the participants was recorded -- proof for Guinness -- Greco and Fray herded them onto a field, where the group laid down in a colorful pattern and was photographed from the air.
"The idea for the mandala (the pattern) was to do it a little bit like parking cars at a rock concert," Fray said.
Greco said, "There was a bullhorn involved." |
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