Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Look What I Can Do!

Walking through large cities everywhere you are bound to see at least one street performer. Even on college campuses you see chalk artwork on the sidewalks as you walk around. Street performance has been around for a long time because as people find out how to do new and fun things, they are bound to want to show someone. Another form of street performance
is when a person goes out on the street corner and preaches about God or preaches about some other thing that they are extremely passionate about. An example of a street performer that I have recently seen is a man that was preaching about his religion on the South Patio earlier this week and then on Dixie Avenue today. As Hakim Bey stated, anyone can be a poetic terrorist by doing things as simple as scrawling out a simple poem on a bathroom stall or spicing up a boring looking subway car with a little art.

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