Thinking of your “active resume” concept of a blog from a few years back, it turns out that that’s what this site is for me as a musician. It doesn’t substitute for things like CDs and a formal bio, like I thought it might when I started. But it is great for showing my bona fides.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonudell/tags/trapeze/show/

I’m actually in a couple of those shots.

(Ya gotta love “troupe” almost as much as “aerialist” which puts “troupe of aerialists” over the top!)

I like this vintage aerialist illustration:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Trapeze_artists,_Barnum_%26_Bailey,_1896.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trapeze_artists,_Barnum_%26_Bailey,_1896.jpg&usg=__C8p3geSl8-VOmAN0LUMdxXU37K8=&h=771&w=580&sz=427&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=3xpy_EeC

and this repository of more:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/fsaall,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb,hec,krb,:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(++Aerialists++1890+1900++))