Sunday, June 8, 2008

The Street Performers

During the trip, I've seen many different street performers. Some of these people make their living just doing street acts. I've seen some where it's just someone with a guitar playing along the street with a hat out for collecting money, to whole bands.
On Sunday's along the Yarra River is the Sunday Market. This is a market of locally made arts and crafts. There are a lot of really cool and unique things there. There is also several performers doing different tricks from juggling knives, to gymnastics, to a guy who did his finale by laying on a bed of nails with another guy standing on this chest. They're very entertaining. And when it's over, you drop a few dollars into their hat.
There was one performer that we ran into yesterday that was one of the most unique I've seen. Check it out:


This was really cool. The guy would stand perfectly still like a statue, and then when someone put a coin in his hat, he would 'come to life'. He reminded me of Mr Tumnus the fawn from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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