Living Statues

By Miss Cellania in Art, Pictures on Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 am

We’ve all seen them in busy shopping streets and parks, or in front of monuments and tourist attractions: street performers posing as statues. Some whistle when you pass by, some move when you give them money. Some do it as a career, others between jobs. But whatever the case, being a living statue takes guts, strength, creativity and yes, a good deal of exhibitionism.

Environmental Graffiti has photos of 15 living statues, some you’d never know until they moved! Link -via Unique Daily

Tags: buskers, statues

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Gauldar
Jan 20th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Bronze man is sleepy.
Paul
Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
did anyone else the one where some pranksters put a real stature that looked like a living statue in a busy town square and left it with a pot for money? they made loads for doing nothing
Paul
Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
should say did anyone else “see” the one…
Gauldar
Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Paul, That’s the TV show The Chaser, and I think you can still find clips of the show on YouTube.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser
Evilbeagle
Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Not to be all negative, but people that do this creep me out almost as badly as clowns do. Yeah, and mimes. They just make me feel violent.
Gauldar
Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Seriously EB… a mime is a terrible thing to waste.
Evilbeagle
Jan 20th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Not unless you use an AK.
Nathan Miller
Jan 20th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Seeing the picture, I thought this was a real statue! Usually these are terrible looking, but several of these aren’t bad.
Scooter
Jan 20th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I must say that is a good paint job, much better quality than the average street performer.
Johnny Cat
Jan 20th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Gauldar! Bad puns?? To the cellar with you!
cuimhne
Jan 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Meh “living statues” never impress me really. There’s very few original ones and all they’re doing is standing still.
Lore
Jan 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Some of these are kind of creepy…

I wonder how you go about your life thinking about how you’re going to pretend to be a statue for money…
Sofar
Jan 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I once saw a living statue that was very interesting, because he was missing an arm. I mean he had dressed up as a statue that had had its right arm cut off by vandals. I suppose he didn’t have a right arm in the first place, but he’d fashioned a bronzed half-arm to wear that looked very much like a statue’s arm hacksawed through just above the elbow.
lir
Jan 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
GASP!

There’s a picture of THE PURPLE MAN!

I was going to mention this Purple Man that my family and I saw in York, and that my dad took a good picture of and then proceeded to come home and make The Purple Man the Blue Man or the Green Man or the Rainbow Man via Photoshop.
Ray
Jan 20th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
What a great idea.
Paint up the bums and instant art.
No more squalor.
mother teresa
Jan 20th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Nothing but exhibitionist panhandlers.
Get a real job
Sorge
Jan 20th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Wouldn’t be cool if there was a “living” version of Gaston Lachaise’s “Heroic Woman”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_woman2.jpg
Ali S.
Jan 21st, 2009 at 2:15 am
There is a fellow by Eaton Centre here in Toronto dressed up like a Cowboy. Dude does it even when it’s cold! Then there is the lady who dressed up like an Angel on Bloor and Yonge St…though I haven’t seen her since Winter began.
DOJ
Jan 21st, 2009 at 4:07 am
@Paul & Gauldar – Chas Licciardello did it best
DOJ
Jan 21st, 2009 at 4:10 am
umm, I wasn’t trying for an emoticon, but I guess it works
Melphistopheles
Jan 21st, 2009 at 8:40 am
Anybody see “Hot Fuzz”? The Living Statue man in that town met a sorry fate.
The Other Parker
Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:35 am
Crusty jugglers!
Gauldar
Jan 21st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Sorge,

Dayyyym! Baby got back!
chris
Jan 21st, 2009 at 5:27 pm
never really cared for living statues as they are not all that entertaining.
prefer street bands or entertainers doing tricks.
Nora
Nov 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Hi, how are you? Does anyone know how I can contact someone whose job is to pose as a living statue. I would really appreciate it if you know someone in the Toronto Region. Thanks.

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