Sunday, 15 May 2011

Tortoise Orbs

Laurent Manonni writes in his book The Great Art of Light and Shadow, Archaeology of the Cinema about various inventions and scams 'magicians' of about the 1500- late 1800s used to fool the uneducated masses. One way they fooled people into t'seeing spirits' come to life in a graveyard was by attaching a candle to the back of a tortoise and releasing it into a cemetary at night.






3 comments:

RBG said...

http://stoppingoffplace.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-04-04T11%3A52%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=205

this reminds me of you sean.

Sean Hedman said...

thanks stella! that blog is awesome! which is your main blog by the way? do you have one of your work?

RBG said...

glad you liked it !
ok is my main one, just bits and bits really.