ACLU Defends Butt Painter
Posted on December 13, 2006
According to the ACLU, and as you will see in the video, the man went to great lengths to keep his bizzare hobby in his personal life seperate from his professional one. Therefore I don’t disagree with the ACLU in protecting this man’s freedom of expression. The defense of the school, they probably don’t think he did enough to seperate this from his professional life with it being on youtube and all. Who cares who is right and wrong on this one, its just hillarious. I just couldn’t resist posting about it because it is so strange and hillarious. (Don’t watch video if easily offended by profanity that starts with an A).
Via Metro:
An art teacher has been suspended from his school, after footage of him painting with his buttocks on a TV show appeared on YouTube.
Stephen Murmer – who paints with his bottom, as a self-described ‘butt-printing artist’, under the name of Stan Murmur – was suspended for five days while authorities investigate the video.
He could also face longer-term, unpaid suspension.
The video comes from an appearance on the US TV show Unscrewed With Martin Sargent, in which Murmer appeared in a disguise, and demonstrated his bum art.
It was uploaded to YouTube in March, but apparently only came to the school’s attention recently.
He seems to be quite proud of his artworks, many selling for hundreds of dollars. His students are quoted as thinking his suspension is ’stupid’ and ‘kinda retarded’.
Kent Willis, of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Murmer, said: ‘As a public employee, he has constitutional rights, and he certainly has the right to engage in private legal activities protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.’
I think the best painting was the BUTTerfly. Heh.
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Nowadays, anyone can call anything “art” and get away with it. In fact, the less artful it is, the more likely the “art community” is to embrace it, demonstrating yet again that the lesson of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” has skipped (at least) a generation…
lol. That was definitely worth a few minutes of my life.
He probably shouldn’t have used his real name, but it’s still too funny.