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We got this letter this morning:

My name is Morgan Tepsic, I’m 20 years old and my dream is to jump around the world naked.

Here’s 2,600 shots in motion showing what I’ve done so far…it’s not very long, and the music is really great.

Thanks and have a good day,
Morgan

Normally, unsolicited email from South Korea asking for money would go immediate in the trash, but here’s the video he linked to. NSFW!

Naked jumping. That’s it. That’s the art he wants to make. Here’s the page to go to if you want to help fund this. Currently, 16 people have pledged $10, three people have pledged $50, four people have pledged $100, and one person has pledged $1,000. His goal is only $10,000. C’mon! If you pledge $500, you get your name on his butt cheek and he will Photoshop himself into a family portrait of yours (and he does great Photoshop work—here’s one example). For $1,000, he will draw your portrait and send you a lock of his hair (in addition to your name on his butt and the family portrait). For $1,500 you get your name on his penis. For $5,000 you get your name on his face.

If you read his tumblr blog, the story he tells is that he was in Oklahoma having a shitty time, he went out into the snow trying to find things to take pictures of, no one was around, he took off his clothes, and made photographs of himself jumping around. Then he decided he could be broke and jumping around in Oklahoma or he could be broke and jumping around in South Korea, and made the wise move. He is taking questions from anyone who wants to ask him something and making videos of himself answering them (here and here). Ask him anything you want here.

The stills from the above video can be found on his photography site. This one is my favorite, though there’s something to be said for this one. Also this one. And this one. Also this one. And this one. What’d you say? You want to see him full-frontal with a costume horse head one? Sure thing.

A “behind the scenes” video of him running around making these images is after the jump.

Man, best unsolicited email from South Korea asking for money ever.

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32 replies on “Would You Like to See This Guy Take Off Those Clothes and Jump Around Naked in Weird Places?”

  1. gross. get waxed. hey whats the diff between a wax and a brazillian?

    though, theres nothing better than being beautiful and naked.

  13. @11, No.

    As a sampling of one gay man, I don’t find this interesting. He’s not especially good looking (passable, but not great). Not particularly graceful. Not particularly funny. I haven’t a clue whether or not he’s gay; only that he’s an exhibitionist.

    Plus, it’s been done before, and better. Clothed, perhaps, but still better:

    http://www.wherethehellismatt.com

  15. Not to put too much of a damper on a 20-year-old’s enthusiasm, but really there’s nothing remarkable here except for that 20-year-old butt – which when you think about it is pretty much like most 20-year-old butts and therefore unremarkable and his red dick. Man, that is one red dick! Jumping around the world? Unusual perhaps, but also uninteresting.

  16. Two thoughts.

    One: Why does he immediately turn the ass to the camera every time he does the naked jump? To hide the nasty peen?

    Two: It must be nice to be independently wealthy enough to devote your days to jumping around naked. I love how the story of all these kind of people are that they’re “broke.” REAL broke people though pump gas at the local Texaco. Rich “broke” people on the other hand romp around naked in South Korea.

  17. Not to put too much of a damper on a 20-year-old’s enthusiasm, but really there’s nothing remarkable here except for that 20-year-old butt – which when you think about it is pretty much like most 20-year-old butts and therefore unremarkable and his red dick. Man, that is one red dick! Jumping around the world? Unusual perhaps, but also uninteresting.

  19. That’s about the most safe for work “NSFW” thing that I have seen. If my boss even considered firing me for watching that, I would grab two beers and take the slide out.

  24. I thought it was cute!

    Of course, I’m really jealous. I need to find a way to convince strangers to give me money so I can travel around the world.

  26. Looks like MadTV’s Stuart Larson figured out what to do with his “trick”. Look what I can do!

    Why is being naked supposed to be outre or liberating? Yawn….

    That said, I wish I could be thin like that again.

  28. It may not be special, but wouldn’t you choose this over working at McDonalds? Because right now in your early 20’s, it’s pretty much the best job you can get. Bravo.

  29. @13 FTW. This has already been done, and done better, by Matt Harding:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/mattharding2…

    This kid just thought “How can I copy Matt, but not quite rip him off? I know, instead of dancing funny, I will just jump. And to make it really EDGY, I’ll take my clothes off! Wow, I am so creative and original! Now maybe people will fund ME to travel around the world!”

  30. He is not just traveling around the world, he is creating art in the process, maybe if you did some research on what exactly he is doing you could stop hating so much. Check out his tumblr (the site even provided you with a link!) He is actually a very talented photographer. He’s not just wondering around the world and dancing like a fucking moron, he is at least being productive in his travels. You are not supporting his travels, donations are to support his art form, if your not interested in the particular type of form, don’t donate, but at least you could try to give what he’s doing a coherent thought other than, @13 “Oh, man, that is one unattractive penis, made worse by some really awful man-scaping.”

  32. how is matt harding’s work better?
    because it came first?

    right.
    if the world were full of people like you who thought whatever came first was the best, we’d all be riding around in horse and buggy on dirt roads, sending smoke signals to each other while eating bread, unsliced.

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