I found that Americans are still the craziest people. I was looking for information on sideshow performers and decided to check out the Sword Swallower's Association International and realized that the majority of legit sword swallowers live in the US. Fancy that, I would have thought that they would live in like Finland or somewhere where the people don't have much to live for... Then again, with our economy right now... And the place with the second most sword swallowers is Australia, makes more sense if you ask me. Just something I found interesting. And in contemporary times, sword swallowers have to be authenticated and accepted into this group before they can officially call themselves sword swallowers...interesting. And there is only 1 who is currently certified in the state of Georgia, Chris "Captain Stab Tuggo" Steele, but Jason "Zolophd" Munger is in the midst of certification. He is actually shadowing Stab Tuggo. After watching these two perform together, I did notice that "Zolophd" needed a little more practice, but still quite impressive. Just something interesting I saw that I thought I would share. I will be posting my artist statement when I finish so keep checking back. :)
~*~Hayley Warner~*~
So I learned that Lionel the Lion faced boy made $500 a week at the peak of his career in the early 20th century. That would be approximately $11,177.22 today. Wow.
ReplyDeleteOnly on Spanish guy, I was thinking we had more sideshow performance. I hope there's more people than the ones that are in this list in the world.
ReplyDeleteHmm, SSAI, who knew? I find it remarkable the certification process, definitely a learned skill and hopefully Zolophd will succeed!
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