Saturday, January 17, 2009

The Man with X-Ray eyes







Kuda Bux, from India, was an unique act in the last century of inusual performances. He was able to read and write while wrapped as a mummy, or even drive a car. But he needed glasses to read his newspaper in normal conditions.





Half of the fascination of his internationally admired act was the ritual of meticolously obscuring his wiew with gauzes and napkins.
A deliciously mysterious blend of Esp, exotica, bondage, masochism, with a flavour of night-club fashion and a twist of sci-fi atmosphere, Kuda Bux was a sort of horror movie hero. It can be witnessed in the video below: even if not of the best quality, the relic preserves the entirety of his act.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Raffaele,
Kuda Bux was actually Pakistani, not Indian. He was born in Aknmur Kashmir, Pakistan, in 1905.

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