Friday, September 17, 2010

Diagram Of Ship's Bottom

Spidora

                                                                                                 (c) Stefan Nagel

The logo for my latest show booth posting this time is not an American Sideshow Banners borrowed, but B-movie posters of the horror, science fiction and crime division in the 50s. It fits in nicely with the other classic sideshows illusions, the Spinnenweib "Spidora" or "Arachna," as she was often in this country. The black-haired Marilyn
after the famous Warhol-image personifies the female spider that their partner after mating the same again, "nibbled" where are intended to strengthen the bones that lurid aspect.

These mirrors illusion of a giant spider woman with a talking head who once was widely used in sideshows and the viewer must often make a big impression. Intermediate attempts to revive this show back position, was not convincing because of the generally miserable, amateurish reactions so right.

(For more information about this and other illusions are found in the same chapter www.schaubuden.de.)
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