Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The art of ventriloquism


My father was a ventriloquist and a magician. This is one of his many puppets. He has a movable jaw, and his bright staring eyes are ever ready to assume any expression suggested by his puppet master.
What I find funny is that the ventriloquist has a single powerful factor working for him and this is that the listener wants to hear what the puppet has to say!

5 comments:

  1. That is so true. Why is it that we want to hear what the puppet says, but if a person were saying it we may be completely disinterested? I love your pictures!!!!

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  2. Hi Mand - LOVE it. Was does it say on the tin? Can't quite make it out.

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  3. sorry, but those eyes kinda freak me out. He looks like a Christian having a moment.

    Can we have shot with the mouth open, please? That might put me more at ease.

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  4. Sorry for freaking you out Tim, I think a pic with the mouth open will freak you out more, so will save you from that one.

    It's a lovely old gunpowder tin , written in Afrikaans. It says ONTPLOFBAAR (explosive) at the bottom.

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