Tuesday, November 15, 2005

This is Not a Cornfield... It's a Porn Set!

You Got Porn in My Corn!...Oh man, the headlines just write themselves. What do you expect when you give Los Angeles artists full reign over a field full of corn?

Confused as to what the hell I'm talking about? First the back story.

Not A Cornfield is a "living sculpture" created by Lauren Bon and funded by Annenberg Foundation. In fact, Not A Cornfield, is A Cornfield. A cornfield planted on a previously barren rail yard on the edge of China Town downtown. Various events and performances have been held at this spot.

Now for the punch line.

Aaron Landy is a film maker who has been documenting an array of artists performing against the backdrop of the corn field. Landy, reports the LA Times, Is being accused of filming pornographic content in the field.

Landy said he photographed more than two dozen local dancers, poets, actors and artists offering samples of their own work against the cornfield backdrop before he was ordered out by project administrators.

He said he was filming a dancer in a colorful, flowing gown near a row of cornstalks Nov. 4 when project general manager Adolfo Nodal accused him of producing pornography. Nodal called in Los Angeles police and a state park ranger to force him off the leased park property.

So my thought is....Are you kidding me? In the porn capital of the world, a place where strip joints are as plentiful as Starbucks, do these people really expect that a corn field wouldn't be included in the festivities? I mean its just too perfect.

Not A Cornfield is located at 1201 N. Spring St. for your art posing, corn grabbin, porn shooting pleasure.

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