#ringling bros

[vintagegeekculture]

1997 was the last year that Ringling Brothers had a graduating class for its’ “Clown College.”

The most well known member of the 1997 graduating class of Clown College was Steve-O, best known for the brave yet foolhardy stunt/prank series “Jackass.” Steve-O used the lessons he learned at Clown College to excel, a combination of physical comedy and stuntwork.

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Circus Poster: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus / The Greatest Show on Earth (1943). Poster depicting Felix Adler the clown

[charring58]

Jan 16, 2017 — From 1987: 'King Tusk' highlights the circus. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has a giant new star in St. Petersburg.

[head-vampire]

Gunther Gebel-Williams Farewell Tour shirt (1988)

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REVIEW: Battle for the Big Top - P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus (2021)

REVIEW: Battle for the Big Top – P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus (2021)

A Book by Les Standiford I’ve attended a few circuses in my lifetime, and it’s kind of sad that such a once-dominant institution could be slowly dying off as it has been. After the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey company shuttered in 2017 there was a big question as to whether the circus could even work in the United States anymore considering all of the entrainment options, concerns over…

[babypalms]

PM55 - Yorkville - The Circus Comes to Town - August 22, 2015

Yorkville – The Circus Comes to Town I’ve been collecting pictures of the Circus coming to New York City. I’ve been looking for some time to collect pictures of the Ringley Brothers – Barnum and Bailey Circus coming to town and as fairly lucky. I( decided to use this blog on Yorkville Resources to house these pictures that I did find and I supplemented this blog with some of the other circus…

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Ringling Museum Of Art: BILLIES TRAVELS WITH BAD ANGLES #20

I look back on our visit to the Ringling Museum Of Art.

This series is where a sometimes ranty writer travels and rants, or just takes a lot of shaky pictures and videos.

Ringling Museum Of Art

https://www.ringling.org/visit/venues/museum-art/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_Bailey_Circus

Intro Theme: Triune Digital https://www.triunedigital.com/

Other Music: Musicbed https://www.musicbed.com/

The Darkness Bite: Hell

For all things Tin Universe: tinuniverse.blogspot.com

#travel #travelvlog #travelvlogs #traveling #travelingvlog #ringlingbros #ringling #vlogs #vlogging #vloggers #ringlingmuseumofart #florida

[l8news]

El regreso del espectáculo más grande del mundo: El circo Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey se prepara para reanudar presentaciones en septiembre de 2023. El circo dejó de dar funciones en 2017 tras una caída en su venta de boletos (la cual fue posiblemente causada por dejar de usar elefantes en sus actos). La versión 2023 del espectáculo no tendrá animales amaestrados de ningún tipo. [x]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

When zebras and camels roam the streets of New York, it can mean only one thing: the circus is in town. Just off the train from winter quarters in Florida, the animals make their way west on East 49th Street to Madison Square Garden, April 3, 1942 for the opening of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Photo: John Lindsay for the AP

[piplupcola]

Some shameless POS literally used AI to steal my friend's animated film

I usually don't post stuff like this but this shit's insane and downright insulting. I graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2022, a pretty well known animation school in the US, and every animation student on their final year of college has to make an animated film for our final thesis. If you have any idea of the animation making process, you would know that making an entire film by yourself in one year is batshit insane and extremely exhausting, to the point where I'm still feeling the effects of the process on my physical and mental wellbeing 2 years after I graduated. Once more, my friends and I did it during the covid period, which was another level of hell. I was literally watching my grandfather's funeral while working in the labs at 2am because I couldn't fly home to attend it because we had to make this film. This film was our lifeblood, the culmination of 4 years of hell at school which was suppose to be our gateway into the industry. Tldr, it's fucking difficult to do, especially on your own.

So imagine 2 years later and I wake up to a bunch of messages on our alumni chat where a dear friend of mine posted a link to a tiktok video of someone literally stealing her entire film and superimpose it shot by shot and claim it as their own ad for their AI game. As animators, we aren't unaware of people stealing our films and reposting them elsewhere. Heck my own film "The End" was stolen from our school vimeo and posted on tiktok BEFORE IT WAS EVEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED, and that tiktok got hundreds of thousands of views while a year after my own real release my film is still struggling in the thousands.

But this

This is a fucking new low.

Can you imagine? A fresh graduate going through literal blood sweat and tears to make a film on their own that is so important to their future in the industry, to get them a job, with a film that represents a part of themselves to the world, just used as fodder for some stupid tech assholes? It's infuriating. It's insulting. It's literally a big fuck you to the hundreds of students who spent their lives toiling to make these films from the heart who are just desperate to get into the industry.

The animation industry right now is in complete shambles. People are graduating from animation schools with thousands of dollars in dept only to be met with a wasteland of minimum wage and lack of funding and competing for jobs with people who have already been in the industry for years affected by the massive layoffs not only in the movie but also the gaming industries. These films we make for our thesis aren't just films made for fun, they represent our lifeblood, our only opportunity to get a job as a graduate in this sea of hell. If you didn't make a good film, chances are you're never even stepping foot in the industry ever. It's our golden ticket that we would put thousands of hours through, sleepless nights and pushing through no matter the circumstances of sickness and pain it caused us.

And now some dumb fucking AI using dickbags see that and decide it's worth nothing.

Here's a link to my friend's real film. Please go watch it and support her work. I'm not even gonna link the other piece of shit tiktok because I don't want that video to even get a single extra view but here's a recording my friend made so you can see this malarkey side by side.

It's heartbreaking to see my friend's film barely getting any views while the stolen garbage is already in the thousands. I hope the person who stole my friend's work and made that shit dies in a fiery car crash and go straight to hell.

I cannot emphasise how we must not let this shit continue to happen. We're living in a fucking dystopia and unless we do something about it and support those affected by it it's only going to get worse. They're already expanded from stealing people's still art to stealing people's entire films, if we don't stop this nothing we create would ever be safe.

My friend's film:

The shameless fuckheads who stole her film:

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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus - Prairie Bill And His Congress Of Rough Riders Of The World, 1933 poster

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God made me susceptible to motion sickness because otherwise I'd be running away with the circus.

[charring58]

#LivingUnicorn float (1985-6) for #RinglingBrothers,Barnum& Bailey Circus pageant at Circus World Museum. Baraboo, WI.

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Gunther Gebel-Williams (1972)

Photography by Dick Loek

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[carbone14]

Affiche pour le cirque Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey avec en vedette Lillian Leitzel - 1929

[aci25]

In the year 1899, two African-American brothers with albinism were forcibly taken and exploited as performers in a circus.

Renowned as "The Sheep-Headed Men," "The White Ecuadorian Cannibals Eko and Iko," and "The Ambassadors From Mars," George and Willie Muse gained worldwide fame as sideshow performers during the early 1900s. However, the true horrors of their story remained largely unknown to their predominantly white audiences.

Born with a rare form of albinism in the African-American community, the Muse brothers fell victim to a traveling "freak hunter" who targeted them when they were young boys and forcibly abducted them from their home in Virginia. Their distinctive appearance, characterized by African-American albinos with pale blue eyes and blond hair, coupled with their poor vision due to an eye condition often misunderstood as a mental impairment, made them easy targets for exploitation by a traveling circus.

Under the control of their captors, the brothers were compelled to grow out their hair and were sold to various traveling sideshows, including Ringling Bros. Circus. Despite being denied access to education and literacy, as well as being deprived of any financial compensation, George and Willie possessed remarkable musical talents. They could hear a song once and flawlessly reproduce it on any instrument they were handed, be it a guitar, banjo, harmonica, saxophone, or xylophone. Their handlers greatly underestimated their abilities.

Their years of enslavement finally came to an end in 1927 when Ringling Bros. Circus returned to Roanoke, and George recognized their mother among the crowd. Overwhelmed with emotion, George exclaimed, "There's our dear old mother. Look, Willie, she is not dead." This poignant reunion marked the turning point in their lives, bringing an end to their captivity and the beginning of a journey towards reclaiming their freedom and identity.