Volker Gerling journeys from town to town, carrying a hawker’s tray full of flipbooks, reviving the tradition of hobo craftsman in his own way. A film academy graduate turned self-proclaimed flip-bibliopegist, he entertains people with a one-man motion-picture theater. Remember that photography was a gateway drug into motion pictures–and when you take it back to flipbooks, time can actually flow through your fingers, he says, and he’s fascinated with the gaps. Read more »
If you're a psychotic murderer who needs to dispose of body parts across town, dressing up as a Godspell unicycle mime on his way to work is a surprisingly good option. The unicycle case will fit the average-sized kid and people tend to assume the smell is just coming from you.
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Wait, what's going on here? Where are the stressed-denim board shorts and the screenprinted skulls and the Ed Hardy guayabera with matching elastic headband to keep the L'Oreal Studio Line Megahold from dripping in his eyes? Shit, he's not even wearing sneakers. It's almost as if he's a full-grown man with a job and kids and wife whose purse he's holding (please don't let it be his, puhlease don't let it be his).
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