02-24-10 – On the Streets

That may be an argument against parade participants in general…

I can see that. Perhaps, a theme is required, and after a brief search of the FSM, one shall be submitted.

Looking through my archives for this theme, I realize it might be quite hard for people that don’t live in large cities, since almost all of my potential entries involve trains or subways.

Participants in a Zombie walk are pretty similar to a street performers.

People build a sandcastle would be fine.

zombie walks are fun 🙂 I do have some shots where it’s obvious people are putting on a show..like a group of kids sitting on the corner with their mom looking bored (who’d be bored at a zombie walk?!) and then there are people on top of a building who hung out a sign and were just watching the show….I guess worse comes to worse I post and they get axed 😛

I will try to get some other shots..but between the weather and where I live it might not be so easy.

After reading all the questions in this thread, I think it is going to be difficult to judge who crosses the line. I just reread the rules for this contest and I don’t know what you could add to make it any clearer. That being said, I’m now tossing out a couple of photos that I thought would be okay but probably are not. There are so many entries that never read the discussion threads that it’s going to make it difficult for Elsinore come show time!

I think there’s a delineation on “famous people” though. Obviously someone like a President or Tiger Woods is a famous face that a majority of people would recognize. On the other hand, someone like Melinda Gates (Bill Gates’ wife) or your local newscasters are ‘famous’ but the majority of people voting for fark wouldn’t recognize them if they sat down next to them or saw a picture of them.

Sooooo, two questions. Do we add those two clarifications? Or do we not worry about the “not at their destination” to allow for fire fighters and police officers acting in the line of duty in public?

I agree with mopsy..I’m seeing this brewing as a pain to police, so we need to either make sure things are as clear as they can be in the description *now* or we need to relax things a bit.

Good point. This is going to be a difficult theme for a lot of people, so it should probably be more open. Which also means that it wouldn’t be policed as hard, and left more for voters to decide.

I guess I was thinking of the “not yet at a the destination” more of as a guideline. The “famous people count as people you know” depends on the definition of “know”, but that should probably be added to the description if it isn’t already clear enough.

I was also wondering about people paid to be somewhere, like this lady in a maid outfit handing out coupons, and buskers. They would probably be considered “street performers”, for example.

People directing traffic and firefighters at a scene would seem to be the same category, and I think are separated from “street peformers”, since they aren’t advertising anything.