Playing with fire

[HappyCynic]

Here's a few I took last week while at Granville Island. First up is a juggler. I only caught the last couple minutes of his performance so these were the best of the meager few shots I was able to take.

Here's him juggling torches. While standing on a skateboard. A skateboard balanced on a suitcase. (The suitcase was on top of something else that I couldn't see - I was at the back of the crowd.)


Mmmmm.... Love that smoky flavour.



After the fire eater, I happened to come across a glass art studio. Here's a piece being taken out of the furnace.


And being worked on. My apologies for the reflections - I was shooting at glass through glass.


Not sure exactly what the finished piece looked like but its shape was pretty much what you see coming out of the furnace - somewhat bomb-like.

[Callalily]

1. Juggling fire sticks

while on a skateboard - wow!

I've always wanted to try glass blowing, I too have seen glass blowers in action, and it's not only art, but as you captured, performance art too, that is, when the artist allows to be captured.

[HappyCynic]

3. Definitely performance art...

I've always wanted to try it as well (glass blowing, not juggling fire - on or off a skateboard). There weren't too many windows but they were almost all occupied by spectators. There's a window just to the right of the photo and three on the side I was on. The window visible in the photo is the only one without people peering in. I didn't really have the "prime spots" for viewing but I'm happy with what I did manage to get.

[WillParkinson]

2. Looks like you had a ....hot.... time!

And came back with cool pictures!

[HappyCynic]

4. *groan*

And some people think my puns are bad... :P

I do wish I had arrived earlier for the juggling. As it was, I pretty much got there, he did his last minute of juggling, then extinguished the torches - the first two by "eating" the fire, the last one just blowing it out. I imagine he was much more energetic at the beginning of the act.

[Celebration]

5. it's a MUCH better talent than the mimes

There are some things I really don't understand--walking on hot coals is one of them, and swallowing fire is another.