We had a Clowns Ex Machina photo shoot this morning, in Manhattan, with the famous photographer of variety artists Jim Moore (He was the photographer in the movie Man on A Wire.) He’s so cool. He’s so nice. He’s so professional.
We had a good time.
We were photographed in black and white wearing our street clothes and in color with our red noses and Clown Axioms costumes on.
It makes me think of the movie The Wizard of Oz. Kansas is in black and white while Oz is in color. I didn’t know about that special effect until I was in college because I grew up in a home with a black and white television. I’d always assumed the whole movie was in color.
Anyway, now that this long anticipated “performance” is over my body has succumbed and I’m down with the cold I’ve been ignoring and fighting off for days.
But we are registered for middle school tours this week so I am only allowed to be ill for about 14 hours.
While we were changing costumes, I spoke with the clown mother of a 4-year-old who is in the midst of all the school tours and IQ the testing for placement in next fall’s kindergarten class. She said was surprised how involved and time consuming the whole process has become. Later when I caught up with The Husband and My Kid and friends from her soccer team at a local diner, the other mother and I talked about our middle school search. Is there any other topic??? Does it ever end. It’s like we’re single-minded children right Christmas. What do you want? What do you think you’re going to get? —Except that the anticipation isn’t any fun.