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February 1, 2012
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1st of May’s 1st Parade
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August 30, 2011
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Busy Sunday [SITC & 2kid/2clown Party]
August 28, 2011I was flattered when Ned Hayes asked me to provide some professional face painting to support Kids at Play during Sunday’s Sand in the City. It also provided another opportunity for intern “Crystal” to shine.
In email exchanges before the event, I quickly found out that an emergency comedy consultation was in order. They let me know they were providing two palettes of Diamond FX 12 Essentials with four #2 & four #4 brushes. It’s the same palette I use. However, the Hands On Children’s Museum (who sponsors the event) had suggested that painters be prepared for 2500 faces over the course of 7 hours! [uh... six faces a minute?!]
I advised:
I would get way more brushes of varying sizes and shapes. And sponges. And baby-wipes. Just saying.
Especially if you let kids say ‘Tiger’ you need to get a square foot of orange (for example) up in a hurry.
Sidebar: if the paints are not depleted I might suggest you trade those for (a portion of?) the labor of my assistants. Those clowns have been using my paint!
Luckily, it made sense to them, and we had enough paints AND brushes to cover many many faces. Of course, we didn’t serve anywhere near the estimate. In the end, I was able to bequeath my used palette to Crystal and accept a brand new & unopened one as a perk.
“Justin is the consummate professional clown. He loves his work — and it shows! He knows his way around kids, makeup, crowd control, and parents. What I love most about working with Justin is that he strives to create a complete atmosphere of fun — with pies, music, professional props, and all the accouterments. Justin is great to work with — and I highly recommend him to anyone who wants to have a GOOD TIME !!!” Ned Hayes
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Then I rushed home to get into clown and gather supplies [pies, Coke & Mentos, and water balloons]. I had a previously booked party for that evening. The client had called Marie from Sustainable South Sound asking whether I would extend my coupon from last year. She was especially excited when I further offered to bring Crystal as a Buy One Get One special.
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August 21, 2011
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Mud Run and Camp Thunderbird
June 11, 2010Undecided about a costume for my premiere/finale as a Lincoln Elementary employee, I looked for some inspiration on the Camp Thunderbird info sheet. It said: “Water is Off Limits” and that resonated with the global angst about the BP-Gulf of Mexico Disaster, so I dressed in hip waders and brought my blue buckets.
On the way up 101 we heard on KAOS that the annual Evergreen Mud Run was scheduled to begin and precisely that moment, so I pulled over and made like a clown going for a stroll on the beach… perplexed, intrigued and astonished to find nekkid ppl running across the mud flats.
Two pics by Laura Killian. The rest of her FLICKR set> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tricyrtis_hirta/collections/72157624134769015/
A couple of pics by Trish>
“There’s some dirty hippies takin’ a hippy mud bath before they gotta gradjamacate today!”
“Is that a Gooey Duck or are you just happy to see me?”
Then we drove to Camp Thunderbird. I made myself useful at the “Circus, Circus” activity station. I had been led to believe that I was expected, that students would learn to walk on stilts, make their own juggling balls, and practice other skills like slack rope walking. There were stilts there. They had decided against the balloon+sand bag juggling ball construction portion of the circus for ecological+logistical reasons. I’d brung my rubber squirting fish in the bucket and gave tutorials with those. I also assisted with stilt fitting and walking and encouraged one girl to add hula hooping to her stilt walking. She could do it for almost half a minute!
A couple more pics by Trish>
I joined the talent show too late to get a hula hoop, so I faked it.
When they provided one I continued to fake it!
Photo by Julie Montgomery of me during Juggling practice with Eloise.
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Over 200 pied faces ~ EF Students Gone Wild
July 31, 2009
I had ANOTHER new look for the job at the EF school! I picked up this Referee’s shirt at Goodwill during soccer season, and I had intended to take it to Nita to make it more clowny. All it really needed was an assortment of buttons, a wet bandanna, a stopwatch, and an extra loud sport’s whistle! I’m not opposed to having some additional fringe or bells or whatnot added, but it’s not a gotta.
Also I was concerned about the near 100 degree heat. Notice the thermometer in the background. This was an authentic ref’s shirt that features a plastic lining that causes my perspiration to remain a coolant instead of soaking into the fabric. It’s a most curious feeling, however, to be dry on the outside and swimming on the inside. I recommend this type of shirt to any clown who works in the heat of summer, be it parade or outdoor festival or backyard birthday. The ref’s shirt especially conveys some special authority with which you can TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO! And they DO IT!
Which almost brings me to the pie-fest portion… first I did an abbreviated indoor show on the stage of the Lecture Hall, featuring an assortment of my usual tricks but also introducing my new baby Orangutan puppet for a mini-lesson on the Indonesian language. [Orang-Utan means Person of the Jungle. Orang-Utang means Person in Debt. "Like You" sayeth the puppet] All those who had signed the waiver were called up on stage and made to perform as a human machine. Then we sat them down and showed them the Pie Delivery page of my website on the big screen.
Okay, let’s go outside for your prize. Hmmm. Many had changed their minds, or realized that they should not sign anything in this country without reading it first.
But a few brave souls stood up and took what was offered.
Then the idea caught on as they wanted to be in charge of the pie-ings.
I still got to do a few…
Actually, no I didn’t personally deliver another pie that day. I just had to stay out of their way and shout out cautions like:
“Be kind! Don’t hurt anyone! Have fun… and LAUGH!”
When my cooler was completely empty and all my paper towels were gone, approximately 20 more faces had been pied. I will take credit for administering and supervising all faces that get pied during my visits even if I did not personally deliver the pies. I think that’s fair. The law would probably hold me responsible.
Some pied peeps didn’t pose for the pic, but I feel secure in claiming the new total to be approximately 210 pied faces (up from 193).
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More pics from other photogs
April 28, 2009Here’s another one from Fall Arts Walk ’08 I just found on flickr ~
by Ruby ReUseable
It was actually raining outside. I pied one face and called it good.
I had on my foul weather green mock-turtleneck instead of the usual polka-dotted shirt.
While we’re at it…
Here’s an interesting one I got from Miriam Khan. I’m showing EF Students how to twist a balloon doggie in a Lecture Hall at Evergreen.
I don’t have much documentation of that parachute! I wish I had the one where she got pied!
Speaking of pies… I waited almost a year until this guy from the Fremont Solstice festival found me on facebook through our mutual friend, David Raffin, who wrote all those wonderful clown stories.
I’m wearing a mushroom beret that Janeane made.
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Best Of 2008
December 25, 2008
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Pieing video from Super Sat
September 8, 2008Thanks for e-mailing this phone camera video!
Audience support helps keep the media flowing.
Any photos or videos you send are good for discounts on future services.
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American Games at the EF School
August 14, 2008
Thanks to Miriam Kahn I got to be the Special Guest at the Olympia EF School on the Evergreen State College Campus.
I worked up some new material for American Games including the first use of my Red Light/ Green Light LASERS!
Miriam consented to take a Pie-in-the-face. Here’s the first picture of me with nearly a hundred students learning to twist their balloons into doggies.
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Protected: And then I was King!
July 16, 2008
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Protected: A chapter closes on Radio 8 Ball
July 16, 2008
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June 30, 2008
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Super Saturday Revisited
June 30, 2008Thanks to Christian Carroll for this pics.
No small change, please, kids.
The pie will come toward her face, but she will be prepared. She will have this laminated card to use as a scraper so that she will be able to dig her way to safety and eat the excess topping.
From the past, toward the future, and arriving at the present moment which begins RIGHT NOW!
MMM…
Looks delicious, actually.
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