This ventriloquist is performing at Braga Street, Bandung.
A ventriloquist, by the way, is a person who is skilled at speaking without moving his/her lips. Ventriloquism - the ability to perform ventriloquizing - which is now considered mainly as a stagecraft was originally performed by the Greek as a spriritual ritual whereby a prophet would speak to and interpret the voice of the dead who was believed to reside in his stomach. That is why ventriloquism is also called gastromancy or "belly speaker".
This photo is for my participation in Monochrome Monday meme. To see other black and white and monochrome photos of this meme's participants, please click the link.
Fun shot .. was he any good??
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Great post and one that celebrates the skill of the 'vent' as they are known in stage circles.
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A fine portrait for Monochrome. This man and his marionette (do we call it like this?) are inseparable, I bet.
ReplyDeleteYou taught me the Greek origins to Ventriloquism. I knew nothing about the use of this skill at this antique time.
J'ai entendu le ventriloque dire : "Belle photo monochrome" !
ReplyDeleteHe looks like a very happy person! Love the monkey, we dont have any street Ventriloquist here!
ReplyDeleteWe still have them here, more as a novelty act. Lovely shot of the two of them, and just how alive does the dummy look.
ReplyDeletecant decide who really is cute in the picture.
ReplyDeletenice monochrome shot!
i cant really say who's cute here in this photo. hehehe.. another nice street shot eki.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.We seldom see this performance at street in Kuching or even in our local TV show and perhap not many Malaysian have such skill to act as Ventriloquist.
ReplyDeleteI love the shot but especially love the smile on the man's face, makes me smile
ReplyDeleteLove the monkey
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a ventriloquist perform live and you have them on your streets! Cool!
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to do that when I was a child. I would take a stuffed animal and pretend...
ReplyDeleteYou very good photographer ( My english is bad ) i follow your blog.
ReplyDeleteCreativity is alive , even on the streets. That's great.
ReplyDeletegreat shot...you have a talent for street shots!!
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