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Another Friday and its a soggy wet one here in Ottawa. This isn't and won't be the first or last of many wet weekends but of course that doesn't stop people from bitchin' and complaining about it. I don't care what it's doing, the week is over.

Being Friday, I get to play around and find odd ball, funny or plainly way out there stuff online. This week is no exception. First though let me ask you a question, how many of you have been on a plane and second question how many of you actually bother to watch the flight attendants do their safety routine?

I'll admit, I rarely ever watch the routine. Seeing a bored looking attendant going through the motions of pointing at doors and clicking a seat belt together doesn't interest me. That being said, New Zealand's national airline has adopted an interesting way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint.

Body paint! My eyes are opening now.

The "Bare Essentials of Safety," screening in the cabins of planes flying Air New Zealand's main domestic routes, has gone viral online. It had 1.2 million YouTube views by Friday, four days after it was launched.



In the video, three cabin staff and a pilot, all in full body paint applied to look like their uniforms, talk viewers through the aircraft's safety procedures.

A demonstration seat belt, life jacket and arm rests are strategically positioned during the 3 1/2-minute video to protect the cabin crew's ... discretion. Passengers are shown ogling, mostly in appreciation.

The body paint idea is also being used in a series of television advertisements in New Zealand for the airline, which include the promise: "At Air New Zealand, our fares have nothing to hide."

Each crew member spent about three hours having the body paint applied. These aren't models or actors but real employees.

Check out the videos for yourself AirNZnothing2hide and what would video be without bloopers?