My friend recently sent a beautiful carnivalesque animation by Thomas Hicks titled Susumu Yokota – Kaiten Mokuba. Enjoy: Susumu Yokota – Kaiten Mokuba from Leaf Label on Vimeo.
London’s James Harvey British Art gallery is hosting an exhibition November 29th – December 16th titled The Circus to promote a new book by Robert Fountain, who chose artists for the exhibition. Fountain’s new book, The Art of the Traditional Circus, includes 160 illustrations and paintings by 52 different artists. With permission, today HeyRube readers get a sneak peak [...]
In the last post, we heard about Tim Marston’s guide to marketing for freelance performers, How To Sell Your Act. Today, the fire eating, fire breathing, staff spinning and staff juggling performer takes a moment to share his background and inform HeyRube readers about his path to becoming a marketing guru: First off, how did you [...]
As sideshow and circus performers, we are in the business known as show business and recently, Bello Nock reminded me that the business part makes up 2/3 of that title. This is a crucial lesson and one that is easy to overlook while spending countless hours honing new routines, crafting new props and building new [...]
Vintage circus posters receive great acclaim today and many museums around the country have organized exhibitions to honor this slice of Americana advertising. Circuses, however, were not the only entertainment platform to get involved in early print advertising. Published in 1922, below is an advertisement for Coy Herndon, a performer in the vaudeville and minstrel circuit [...]
Earlier this year, a Starbuck’s manager fired Elsa Sallard, a recently hired dwarf, when she requested a stool to stand on during her training in El Paso, Texas. The manager rationalized the fire, claiming that, “having her standing on a stool would be dangerous for both employees and customers” (Huffington Post). Sallard, believing she’d received discriminatory [...]
Snapdragon is a mobile device company, claiming to make “smartphones smarter one chip at a time.” Recently, they asked their consumer base how many praying mantises it takes to power a smartphone… While the following commercial does not exactly answer the riddle, it is quite entertaining, even for a corporate commercial: