Circus Freaks
While browsing weblogs today, I saw a link reading “Circus Contraption” and just couldn’t help myself.
It turns out that I’d been visiting the weblog of David Edelstein, the unofficial photographer-in-residence for the troupe of performance artists that goes by this oddly evocative name. Circus Contraption offers up retro-surreal entertainment for circus fans who find that Ringling Bros. just doesn’t do it for them anymore. Edelstein describes them as landing at the center of “a William S. Burroughs — Vincent Price — Tom Waits — Klezmer — Gypsy — Vaudeville venn diagram,” if you can imagine that.
Circus Contraption tours the West Coast, mainly Seattle and Northern California. They’ll be coming to San Francisco in August. Are you listening, Colleen? You must attend a show and tell me all about it!
