Charles Eisenmanns vintage Photos of „Freaks“
Charles Eisenmann war ein Fotograf im New York des 19. Jahrhunderts und schoss hunderte Fotos der „Freaks“ auf den Jahrmärkten und Zirkussen, ein paar davon gabs in der Naruyama Gallery zu sehen, die komplette Sammlung gibts auf der Website der Syracuse University und in der Eisenmann-Sammlung befindet sich auch ein Still mit der Bird Woman aus Tod Brownings Film „Freaks“, wobei der Film erst 1932 entstand und Eisenmann 1927 verstarb, ich bin mir also nicht 100%ig sicher wegen der Authentizität der Sammlungen im Einzelfall, aber hey, wir sind hier im Internet, wer gibt schon was auf solche Details? (Ich.)
With his studio located in the Bowery, New York City, photographer Charles Eisenmann began photographing portraits of show people from dime museums in the 1870s. While photographing “ordinary” people in the basic conventional form, Eisenmann continued working on his archive of “freaks” throughout the 1870s and 80s, which he sold in the cabinet style as collectables.
Clothed in stand collar uniforms and bustle dresses from the Victorian Era, each portrait is carefully directed to enhance the visual wonders of the models’ distinct physique.
Aerialist over Williamsburg Bridge
Vimeo Direktfly, via Laughing Squid
Im Sommer ist Seanna Sharpe auf die Williamsburg Bridge geklettert und hat in rund 100 Metern höhe illegal Kunststückchen vorgeführt. Dafür wurde sie verhaftet und angeklagt, die Kaution kam innerhalb einer Stunde über Twitter zusammen. Als Strafe musste sie schließlich fünfmal gratis ihre Rumturnerei für Kids aufführen. Im Video sieht man nicht nur die Aktion selbst, sondern auch die Faxen, die sie (und ihr Freund) mit der Polizei abzieht. Großartig!
This summer, 24-year old Seanna Sharpe did an illegal acrobatics show 285 feet up the Williamsburg bridge (11 stories over rush hour train traffic) hanging from the double-silk cloud swing she invented.
Photoseries of People shitting their Pants in a Haunted House
Die Nightmare Fearfactory, ein Haunted House-Dings in Kanada, hat einen superlustigen Flickr-Stream, in dem (fast) nur Leute zu sehen sind, die sich an einer bestimmten Stelle der Geisterbahn sowas von ins Hemd machen. Ich könnte mich da den ganzen Tag durchklicken, ein Bild lustiger als das andere und ich wüsste zu gern, was da zu sehen ist. Nach dem Klick noch ein paar meiner Favorites.
Vintage Magic and Circus-Stuff
Bloomsbury versteigert nächste Woche über 700 vintage Items von Gauklern, Magiern, Jongleuren und Clowns. Houdini-Plakate, Postkarten mit Grimaldi, ein Gehstock mit Bauchrednerpuppen-Knauf, alte Zauberrequisiten, Trickanleitungen, Magische Bücher, Illustrationen von Hütchenspielern (u.a. dem Papst) und und und. Wenn ich das Geld hätte, würde ich das komplette Lot aufkaufen und einen Zauberladen für vintage Magic aufmachen. Einfach nur, damit es sowas gibt.
Hier kann man sich alle 731 Dingse anschauen (via Morbid Anatomy), die Hälfte davon mit Bild, davon die Hälfte ziemlich grandios. Leider alles nur in kleiner Auflösung. Falls Ihr einer von den zwei Leuten seid, die sich für alten Magic- und Gaukler-Kram interessieren, dann empfehle ich, sich durch die Auktion einmal durchzuklicken, damit man den Kontext zu dein einzelnen Teilen mitbekommt. Für den Rest habe ich die Bilder meiner 131 Favorites in ein Flickr-Set gepackt.
Conjuring & Circus: Books, Prints, Posters and Apparatus
Und wo wir grade bei Vintage Magic sind: Dangerous Minds hat eine einstündige Doku (mit u.a. Alan Moore) über John Dee, dem Hofmagier von Queen Elizabeth.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Dancing on the Grave of Joseph Grimaldi, the first Clown ever
Vintage Magic-Posters
Vintage Spookshow-Flyer
Vintage Magic- und Hypnotist-Poster
Vintage Magier-Poster und Geister-Fotografie
Bookmarks for August 3rd: NYC Garbage Art, Hofmanns Potion, Spaceflight Psychology
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared on Vimeo
Retro Future: Space Art Update
Spaceflight Psychology and the New ‘Right Stuff’ | Wired Science | Wired.com
AFP: Icelanders hand in draft of world’s first ‘web’ constitution
Princess Leia Costume Made of Duct Tape
Heather Holliday, Sword Swallower on Vimeo
LEGO Dragon Breathes Actual Fire | Geekosystem
“Space Night – Earth Views” 4-10 komplett online
NYC Garbage, Trashy Art In A Cube From New York City
Hacker stock art – Boing Boing
Mac ‘n’ Cheese on Vimeo: Mac 'n' Cheese is an animated short directed and created by four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. This roughly two minute animation took about five months to make, and about a bajillion peanut butter sandwiches.Synopsis: When you find yourself running scared and running out of energy, there's only a few options left to outrun your opponent through the southern desert. Stopping at nothing, watch these two guys wear each other out and rip through boundaries hitherto unbroken.
Mona Lisa – 6,239 dot to dot drawing on the Behance Network: I created an A0 poster with dots numbered from 1 to 6,329 and took a time lapse video of myself linking them all up over 9 hours. Here's how it turned out.
The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden : The New Yorker: What happened that night in Abbottabad.
Essential Mix by Paul Kalkbrenner (30.7.2011) [Mix,Download] | Dressed Like Machines: This Essential Mix is a live set of Kalkbrenner’s own productions and remixes, including tracks from his new album ‘Icke Wieder’.
Hofmann’s Potion (LSD documentary) – YouTube: The documentary delves into the little known early history of the world's most notorious psychedelic.Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to "turn on, tune in and drop out," lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was being used by researchers trying to understand the human mind. This documentary is a fascinating look at the story of "acid" before it hit the streets.Featuring interviews with many LSD pioneers, Hofmann's Potion is much more than a simple chronicle of the drug's early days. <br />
With thoughtful interviews, beautiful music and stunning cinematography, it is an invitation to look at LSD, and our world, with a more open, compassionate mind.
The Bible of Western War, Now Featuring Cartoon Animals | Danger Room | Wired.com: On War is Clausewitz’s attempt to distill warfare down to its enduring essentials. Its only equal is Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. If you’ve heard the phrase, “war is politics by other means,” you know the nickel version. If you want to go for the jackpot, stroll over to one of the war colleges or onto any military listserv to hear people debate Clausewitz’s relevance to their pet issue or dispute what he really said like he was Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall.But if you’d like something in between, Fitzgerald’s Clausewitz for Kids blog is slowly recasting On War, section by section, into a lecture series in the Prussian forest, conducted by Hare Clausewitz (get it?), the intense-looking rabbit officer pictured above in Napoleonic-era regalia.
CINEMETRICS: cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.
Christian Groß — SMS to Paper Airplanes: The text messages were filtered and analyzed using PROCESSING. The sender was encoded by the direction of the paper airplane, the length of the message with its size and the amount of positive emotional words with the amounts of folds. Additionally the paper airplanes were divided in two types depending on the length of their text. Finally, the paper airplanes resulting from this construction plan were placed in the room depending on the time when they were sent, as well as their emotional value.
Chicago: The Ferris Bueller high school – YouTube: You can make a strong case for The Blues Brothers as the definitive Chicago film, but Ferris Bueller's Day Off almost seems like a 103-minute commercial from the Chicago Office Of Tourism. That was no accident. Director (and Chicagoan) John Hughes described the film as his "love letter" to the city. He wanted to capture "not just the architecture, but the spirit."
In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive – NYTimes.com: SAN DIEGO — Here in a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct Life As We Don’t Know It in a thimbleful of liquid.
