Antony Gormley: Naked feet - The Forum - BBC World Service

[thefairlysimple1]

if i take my shoes off, i clear the room, looks like fun though, lol

[oeufgwoieu]

i like it but unfort many cities r gross with spit & cig butts & oil spills & such

[VoIPpoetry]

this is boring

where's Nick Griffin and the BNP

[2DRonaldo]

Too busy seig heiling and spending the Donation money of Idiots on themselves.

[pfryears]

Idealistic P***K, there is around 18 mill jobs related to leather, shoes and the retail business in general. Not to mention that leather is a waste product from cows which would have to be disposed of. Yeh lets destroy a few million lives so our feet can feel the grass.........

[violin614]

There are much better ways to feel what's good to feel, or to be in touch with.

This idea is just playing around. Perhaps yearning to be like the animals, or for rich people who have nothing else to think about.

How about to feel more in touch with the world by living without any money or possesions? May THAT would be more natural!

[2DRonaldo]

Can I walk on Lentils? so I can give Hippies Athletes Mouth.

[Perilous3D]

Vivian: "Neil are you gonna make supper or am I gonna have to kick your teeth in?"

[2DRonaldo]

xD Ha ha ha ha ha!

"And you broke my favourite Plate!"

[seorasmac]

I live in Canada so he can take a shite it's minus 10 outside.

[sarahjanerulez]

He's so hippie, thats awesome, great idea!

[Saternoc]

I don't need to see people's disgusting bare feet. Please keep your shoes on and avoid flip flops as much as possible!

[rickmillerjr77]

so the cultured Brit is telling us to use the footwear of the uncouth Arkansas hillbilly? Interesting. But experiencing the weather is as simple as just being outside, not skipping from the climate controlled house to the climate controlled car to the climate controlled....well, you get the picture.

[oxworx]

you go barefoot for a while and your soles thicken like leather - can barely feel a thing. works for walking around, but not so good about 'feeling the earth'. nice idea tho

[anamarie8]

i encourage us all to go barefoot on the earth or lie down on the earth and it's not to feel "global warming"

[kvj1989]

Can it also be glass?

[thefairlysimple1]

lol@kvj, glass is reserved for the masochists, your in the wrong queue,,, go to the far queue please, lol

[kvj1989]

Yawn -_-

[Ozzi4Japan]

"We engage with time through our feet"... he seems like a nice enough bloke but come on..

[Environex]

Global Warming? You can tell he hasn't been to far around.

[adolthitler]

@morehate4uall

It a lot cleaner here. I don't have many problems, only occasionally picking up a shard of glass. Its easily removed and I go on my way.

[DarksideEngineering]

It is nice to take off your shoes....

at the beach, home, pool or while your having sex. Any other time, its just creepy.

[jee8484]

there is no global warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thefairlysimple1]

biggest con job of all time, now its called climate change, well of course the bloody climate changes, and has done so for billions of years. al gore has a lot to answer for, but of course its not about "climate" control its ultimatly about "people" control.

[adolthitler]

@morehate4uall

I often walk barefoot and sometimes step in it. I survived everytime. Much easier to clean than from a shoes treads.

At last maybe the prejudice might end. LOL

[Pishtucha]

Nice idea, but sorry, I really cannot imagine myself now walking outside without shoes... Wake up, it's under zero and snow everywhere... I've got warm socks and wintershoes and still my feet are freezing!!!!

[whiskeyspray]

He should walk barefoot through East Vancouver. He could get a lovely syringe in his foot. That'd learn him.

[BigAirSmite]

True story.

[padookieking]

ahaha this wanker needs to put down the spliff

[6663000]

Two words.

Foot Fetish.

[Niktisme]

LOL

[lloyd76oswald]

I want to see him walk on the pavement in Phoenix in summer and then see what he says.

[MotionFur]

"Our feet connects with our brains."

You ass is connected with your brain too, maybe Gormley's more then most people.

[mrshahzadanwar]

Wearing shoes do make my feet a lot tense.....i usually wear chappals which are way to comfortable than joggers and shoes when going outside and even in the house.....

[Randomlad12]

No my shoes are comfortable so fuck off

[chadaniels]

I'm not barefoot very often, but when I do take off my shoes and socks it is a very enjoyable experience. I love feeling the textures of carpet, grass and floor with my feet. I also think Gormley's work is marvelous, he has very human ideas, which are also very abstract, plus he has impeccable technique.

[miniroll32]

This man has issues, like most modern artists.

I'm sure it'd be very practical to walk around bare foot in the snow. Then during the summer, the 'textures and surfaces' of dog poo, spit, muck, chewies... urrgh dont get me started

[TruthBeyond]

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[miniroll32]

Its true though. If this is art, how about I got stand in the corner of the room and fist myself, then go on the radio and tell all the fellas to do it?

Maybe they can make a nice pattern on the wall

[shae1400]

Im sorry, but im pretty sure my feet dont know the time or temperature.

[TruthBeyond]

Go step on a boiling hot kettle.

[q8wizard]

I cant belive that bbc posted this video : /

[annikee59]

I'm barefoot almost all the time, and I'm no more aware than anyone else.

[amalgamation25]

same here.

[jdcresswell]

@annikee59 I cant seem to be barefoot for more then 30 minutes at a time without feeling extremely cold feet and fingers and then having them go blue. I have a form of 'Raynaud's' disease meaning I have a problem with a lack of blood flow and because of this I have to wear really at least a pair of socks 24/7 and I wear shoes as much as possible. Normally wear 2 or 3 pairs of socks in the Winter. Its a VERY annoying condition.

[TraxTheAlien]

But your probably allot healthier than most. We expel toxins through our feet and shoos prevents that.

[SquirrelGott]

I have an idea that can change the world, we all stick a cats' head in our mouth and then blow on them.

[amalgamation25]

i used to annoy my cat like that.

[lunei66]

Riiight...

[thefairlysimple1]

i gave u a thumbs up cause your talking sense.

[fatalist6o9]

Glad someone realises! Thumb up to you too!