TEARS OF A PORCELAIN CLOWN EGG
PHOTOS BY LUKE STEPHENSON (Psst, click on an egg to make it enormous.)
Out of the blue, photographer Luke Stephenson emailed us 34 photos of eggs painted with the faces of famous clowns. He wrote, “I’m working on a new project called the Clown Egg Register. It’s a selection of about 300 porcelain eggs from the collection held by the UK-based Clowns International, the oldest clown society in the world. When you are a clown and you join the society you get the chance to have your face registered by getting it painted on an egg, which then acts like a clown copyright. Then the eggs are displayed in the Clowns Museum in Wookey Hole, Somerset, for eternal glory.” “But Luke,” we said, “Luke, why eggs? Why these fragile little things that are just itching to be smashed to bits by us?” To which Luke responded, “Nobody wants to smash clown eggs except for you. Psychos.”
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| dogs rule big time, on Feb 10, 2009 wrote:
I’m surprised that there are 34 famous clowns. I can think of three and one of them is John Wayne Gacy | |
| halzer, on Feb 6, 2009 wrote:
clowns are people that either didn’t get enough love as children or got way too much love from uncle gary. | | Anonymous, on Feb 5, 2009 wrote:
i think you should be worried about anyone that doesn’t want to bash these fuckers. | | Anonymous, on Feb 4, 2009 wrote:
The husband of the artist goes by "Buttons" for his stage name. | | Anonymous, on Feb 3, 2009 wrote:
as my friend will would say "what the fuck shit?" | | Anonymous, on Feb 3, 2009 wrote:
Easter clown freak! Where is my 7-iron... | |
| sam i am, on Feb 2, 2009 wrote:
no bozo or cookie? didn’t they like the grand prize game? | | Anonymous, on Feb 2, 2009 wrote:
which is more fragile, the egg or the clown’s psyche? | | Anonymous, on Feb 2, 2009 wrote:
keep these things the fuck away from me! | | Anonymous, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
If you’re aren’t down with the CER, you are the clown. Shit is tighter than the squeeze in a overloaded clown car. | | Anonymous, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
2nd person looks like a hipster clown bike messenger | |
| enstigator, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
okay, let’s get real here... who the hell cares about clowns except clowns themselves? i mean, maaaaaaybe there’s a two-year window in a kid’s life, but even that is pushing it. | | Anonymous, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
urmmmm, one of those looks eerily like hitler. that guy should consider a change in makeup. | | Anonymous, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
this has gotta be at least halfway on the sad meter. look at those faces. and even worse, think of the artist that spent hours and hours doing painting them. | | Anonymous, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
these are good enough to actually be a lil freaky. i could not have these in my house. | | Anonymous, on Jan 30, 2009 wrote:
stop clownin’ | | Anonymous, on Jan 23, 2009 wrote:
i like the one with the clown face | |
| Grant, on Jan 23, 2009 wrote:
this dude just emailed these in? weird. | |
| FAH-Q, on Jan 22, 2009 wrote:
those are right sexy, I want to slip each egg up me bum. | | Anonymous, on Jan 20, 2009 wrote:
i’m not scared of clowns - i’m scared of people that painstakingly paint clowns on eggs, complete with real hair and little hats. | | Anonymous, on Jan 20, 2009 wrote:
whoever paints these is good and has way too much time on their hands | | Anonymous, on Jan 20, 2009 wrote:
Your meter is wrong. This is sad. | | Anonymous, on Jan 19, 2009 wrote:
the black is exactly how i picture old jim from huck finn | | Anonymous, on Jan 19, 2009 wrote:
only one black clown? this guy hasn’t seen the universoul circus has he? | | Anonymous, on Jan 19, 2009 wrote:
these are freaky and i’m not one of those afraid-of-clowns people. if i showed these to my buddy’s girlfriend she would probably never speak to me again. | | |
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