jugglers, unicyclists and fire-breathers are also like that. if you ask the question why the only answer you can really get is: becuase they are there.
mimes are somehow even less useful and more annoying. i wouldn't find someone being stuck in a glass box interesting if i could see the glass box, have some bloke in make-up pretending it is there is yawntastic.
this isn't to say i have anything against street entertainers, most of them can play guitar better than i can, all of them can sing better than i can.
but my recent walk along the thames was somewhat ruined by the multitude of living statues that seem to have taken root. the skill of the living statue seems to be that they can paint themselves gold, silver or bronze wear a costume and stand very still. and that is about it.
stand still.
hey it looks good on the cv: i stand still. alot. and very well. (and i can do it in face paint). hell i would hire them in a new york minute (which i thinks means "like that"!)
some how or another the tourists flock to them. stare at them. give them money. yet all these statues do is nothing.
they stand. doing nothing. get money for it. amazing.
at least with mimes they are trying to do something, even if they end up looking like wacko jacko on a bad night.
but the statues they really get my goat.
what is worse they are not even like real statues as none of them have bird shit on them.
enjoy the action packed pics.
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Whilst I do agree that living statues appear to do very little for their money (and I also agree there are far too many of them) I have to ask the question: could you do it? Stand still in a certain way for a long, long time? I certainly couldn't and I will at least give them credit for that.
The bottom photo is good with the backdrop of the buildings, has a certain period feel to it.
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