>> ^Payback:

Why does neat stuff like this only happen in foreign countries?
I mean, other than them all being arrested for disturbing the peace or street performing without a permit.


I'm assuming you mean why doesn't this happen in America? The reason is America doesn't have a public commitment to the arts like the European countries. Europeans think this music and this ensemble is an important part of their culture. I think too many Americans look at orchestras and opera companies like over-funded anachronisms.

This isn't to say that there aren't street performances in the US. Quite to the contrary, they're all over the place (weather permitting.) However, they're usually playing guitar and hand drums.

Why does neat stuff like this only happen in foreign countries?

I mean, other than them all being arrested for disturbing the peace or street performing without a permit.

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For once I'm not outraged by the police reaction; you simply can't be soft on street performers. If they didn't get the occasional beat down, our national memorials and libraries would quickly be overrun with jugglers, clowns, dancers and magicians of all kinds. And what sort of world would that be for our children?

That, my good man, is a good idea!

In fact, if there isn't a website by which street performers around the nation (world?) can receive donations from a web audience, then someone needs to get on that!

To be sure, this video was a nice collaboration with the videographer (who, I presume, is not homeless), but the relative costs can be kept minimal so that street performers can be given audience to more than the circumstantial passerby.

>> ^alizarin:

Dude needs a paypal account for donations - I'd pay for that performance!

>> ^laura:

If I heard voices like that in my head I'd surely spend all my time hitting my head and yelling "shut up!"...


Indeed, how many of us have seen individuals on the street performing this very same described action? I am skeptical of its efficacy.(Euphemism)

How many of us have been sleep deprived, intoxicated, stressed, emotional, and thereby suffered mental impairment? What conscious control were we able to manifest? How long would it take to "forget" it wasn't normal owing to the onus of these and other attendant symptoms? Would the voices not become referentially familiar?

When I was studying such things it was referred to as a perceptual disorder.

The sky started alright but then what was that thing he put around it - it completely looked unfinished...

This style is way beyond abused... I know a busking company who hires teens during summer events. They train them for a couple hours and then sends them out creating this stuff for the public as street performance busking. The company supplies the paint and paper, and they keep a percent of the profits as these teens go out and try to sell the artwork and perform.

Trust me, it's fun to watch, but not always a lot of skill involved.
It takes hundreds of tries before you can actually create stuff that doesn't look "off-the-assembly-line" and even then, it all starts to look the same from piece to piece and artist to artist... So not really worth it in the end...

Even street performers are lip syncing?

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It's a diploma, i'm not sure how it translates over there either, I guess it's like half of a degree. I'm nearly there, two more units to go

You were always my favourite K, you know that. But in the end, I just couldn't compete with the copious amounts of male sifters you are getting through. I am merely a woman after all. I mean, if it were just sex I think I could have got by ya know, maybe, possibly...

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
How have you been? Have you gotten your diploma/degree yet? (Forgive my ignorance. I'm not sure what you are studying for translates to in American academics.) You know you're still my favorite British chick here. I still don't like it even when gay dudes start talking to you, though I'm sure you've already proposed marriage to other mansifters by now. Probably number 487 already.

Oh well; I'm still glad I could be in the first dozen. Or two.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thanks mate, great memory! Loved it

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
If memory serves me, you are fond of buskers. Therefore you might like this, because it's also British:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Guitar-machine-street-performer

How have you been? Have you gotten your diploma/degree yet? (Forgive my ignorance. I'm not sure what you are studying for translates to in American academics.) You know you're still my favorite British chick here. I still don't like it even when gay dudes start talking to you, though I'm sure you've already proposed marriage to other mansifters by now. Probably number 487 already.

Oh well; I'm still glad I could be in the first dozen. Or two.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thanks mate, great memory! Loved it

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
If memory serves me, you are fond of buskers. Therefore you might like this, because it's also British:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Guitar-machine-street-performer

Thanks mate, great memory! Loved it

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
If memory serves me, you are fond of buskers. Therefore you might like this, because it's also British:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Guitar-machine-street-performer

When I saw this I immediately thought of your "Live Arts" playlist:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Guitar-machine-street-performer

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