Greatest show on earth? I doubt it
Yesterday we went to RBC center at Raleigh (aka home stadium of NCSU basket ball team) for a “Greatest show on earth”, a circus show, according to the website here, it is 134th edition. Sorry I couldn’t take any good quality picture, not because I forgot my equipments, but they refuse to let me in unless I shelfed my 10D with 200L with rediciulous reason that it is too professional.
The show is ok, but by no means the “Greatest”. What impressed us most is the guy “Crazy Wilson” whoe has several skills to show off, first is driving a gyroscopic Pendulum (it is huge, 40′+ feet), the only energy source of the show is gravity, which is a pretty innovative design. then you will see this guy drives a motorcycle inside a big shining steel sphere (I remember i saw this when I was in middle school) with a group of crazier people.
What is worth mentioning is there is a Chinese acrobat group show, it lasts about 10 minutes, which in my mind, is the most difficult part of the show, in that you cannot see that performed by any other country man. The animal part of the show is below my expectation, elephant show is kind of silly, and is far inferior to the Thai elephant show that we saw in a small thai village. Then the lion show is not worth of mentioning, they simplfy performed some simple exercise like sitting on a chair and does nothing that shows the full intelligence of this smart thing.
During the whole show, we used Canon SD200, the autofocus is pretty much useless in the dark environment. 80% of the photos turned out of focus. We do find the video function of the camera is pretty handy in some situation where photo is not powerful enough 
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2 comments February 13th, 2005