Fremont Solstice Parade
The Fremont Solstice Parade happens today. It's an event in Seattle that's scheduled on a weekend near the summer solstice. The event was cancelled for the last two years due to COVID, so these photos are from 2019.
The parade begins with a bike ride where most participants strip naked and paint their bodies. Some very creative body-painting can be seen. Above, painted clothes are a favorite theme.
This guy is going as a British Grenadier Guard, with a painted-on uniform and fake bearskin hat.
Here's a referee and a guy who just went with artistic handprints.
Some are painted as specific characters, like Deadpool ...
and Captain America.
These guys went as bees. The guy in front was modest (riders are not required to be naked), but the guy in back is unashamed.
After the ride is done, the riders gather at Gas Works Park.
This body painting is a work of art. Van Gogh, to be precise.
There's usually a unicyclist or two in the parade.
We'll end with this group that went for a coordinated flower theme. The end guys are apparently green plants with giant flowers growing from them. There are three smaller female flowers, plus a bee to the left of them and another insect to the right (the orange guy – a wasp?) 2019 was before the war in the Ukraine, so I think these were meant to be daisies, but I can't help seeing them as Ukrainian sunflowers.
More 2019 Fremont Solstice Parade photos tomorrow.
4 comments:
Really great paint jobs...creative and sexy.
One of these days... on my bucket list! BTW wasn’t the London WNBR recently? Paul
While looking at these images I got to wondering: Doesn't that paint rub off of their butts when riding? I wonder what that looks like from behind.
absolutely
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