Carnies. Circus Folk.

[digitaldiscipline]

Um, HOLY CRAP.

Also, if anyone has any idea what that music is, please let me know. I think it's awesome.

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[happygoth.livejournal.com]

Like, whoa.

(And at one point, my inner 12-year-old said, "Dude! He's got his junk on that guy's head!")

[etcet.livejournal.com]

As the friend who pointed this out to me said, "This would be kind of gay if it wasn't so fucking impressive."

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

I could be totally wrong, but I think the music comes from something like the Don Quixote opera... I seem to remember that it's been used in Olympic ice skating routines before as well.

[girl-on-a-stick.livejournal.com]

I'm always frustrated watching this sort of thing in an audience, because I know 99% of them have never tried to hold even a basic back lever and have no clue just how f'ing hard this stuff is. They just know it's "hard".

At a cirque del soliel performance I was at there was a woman who did a split planche on the straps. I freaked out clapping, everyone else did sort of a golf clap. Dude! A woman who can do a split planche, on the straps?! No one quite got how impressive that was I don't think . . .

[etcet.livejournal.com]

The bit that got me was the shoulder-to-shoulder inverted stand -- I can't imagine how they pull that off with the body paint and sweat conspiring against them. No way would I have the cojones to try that, I'd slip off and break my fucking neck.

The incredibly slow speed, the lack of quivering from exertion, the whole nine yards... just, dude.

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

I used to know who did that song. Will take me a bit to remember. Came across it in a movie trailer about 10 years ago. Will have to track it down.

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

Found it!
Had to do some searching. Knew I came across it from a trailer for a scifi movie in the late 1990s.
Stumbled across the trailer for Mission to Mars:


Searched and found out it is from 1492: Conquest of Paradise:
Vangelis
Track 2: Conquest of Paradise:

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of Duo Design. They used to perform at Busch Gardens when I worked there. Talked with them a lot back then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmEjQdCjmw