It's all to do with how you fold your skin...

I've got to confess that this weeks blip challenge was proving to be a frustration for me to find something interesting to shoot that met the theme. Sometimes, fate just falls up on you and something happens to give you the spark of inspiration.

I was photographing at Kabarett's Parade of Peculiarity and one of the acts was this guy, George's Marvelous Magic, who did an illusion of passing a spike through his arm which started to drip blood around the audience. It looked great and got quite a few people squirming. After the show I got chatting to him and found out how it's done, and whilst I won't totally spoil it, part of the conversation was "it's all about how you fold your skin".

Great performer and if you see him around then go and watch him. The rest of the show was fantastic too with every one of the performers at the top of the game. Fantastic to see such impressive side-showerry!