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Wavy and a Camp Winnarainbow PIllowfight

I was looking for a birthday present for a friend yesterday, going through a box of black and white prints from my old darkroom days, and came across some I'd like to share. Here is one from Camp...

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Airport Clown. flying post 9/11. 9.19.2001

I wrote the following piece after the experience I had at SFO (San Francisco International Airport) on September 19th getting ready to fly to Europe.... I pop on my clown nose as the security guard...

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Henry Miller on Clown

“A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts. The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves. Joy is like a river: it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which...

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Portugal. Call the President a Clown, maybe land in Jail !!!

In the midst of a morning news internet read.  Scanning the google alerts for the word clown leads to an article about a famous Portuguese writer, Miguel Sousa Tavares. It would seem that in an interview he said the president was a clown. This has lead to an...

Wavy and a Camp Winnarainbow PIllowfight

I was looking for a birthday present for a friend yesterday, going through a box of black and white prints from my old darkroom days, and came across some I'd like to share. Here is one from Camp Winnarainbow and the traditional last morning of session pillow fight....

Airport Clown. flying post 9/11. 9.19.2001

I wrote the following piece after the experience I had at SFO (San Francisco International Airport) on September 19th getting ready to fly to Europe.... I pop on my clown nose as the security guard starts to pass his electronic metal detector over my body in slow...

The Clown Protest…Perhaps it started with Wavy Gravy….

My Google Alerts for the word clown brings me to an interesting post in the 972 Blog about activists dressing up as clowns for the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank. Here's the link. Suddenly the soldiers are not quite as interested in arresting...

Clowning Articles from Les Cahier de l’Idiotie

I'm always on the lookout for insight into the world of clowning, especially social clowning. So I was delighted to discover a little while back a series of essays in the Quebeqois Zine Les Cahiers de l’Idiotie .  For those interested in the subject, there is a deep...

Jethro Massey’s photos of Mali’s Koreduga Clowns

If you are interested in the clown traditions of indigenous cultures, you  will find filmmaker Jethro Massey's blog (The great clown hunt... there are nine entries in Nov-Dec) extremely interesting. He documents his trip to Mali to meet the Koreduga   Jethro  is...

Clown Poète Extraordinaire: Claire. at Festiclown in Vigo, Spain

The big ocean going port of Vigo, in Galicia,  is hosting Festiclown festival this week, and I was lucky enough to catch the performance of Clown Poète ExtraOrdinaire, Claire, a fine dancer with a keen sense of graceful humor. Her complicity with volunteers is...

Henry Miller on Clown

“A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts. The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves. Joy is like a river: it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which the clown is trying to convey to us, that we should participate through...

Words about Clown. Ricardo Puccetti, Lume Teatro.Brazil

ShortInterview about Clown with Ricardo Puccetti (Lume Teatro/Brazil) Moshe: What is clown Ricardo: I think it is very difficult to put into words but for me: I feel that I am clowning when all my potential to play, to have fun, in Portuguese brincar, when I can...