I'm watching the old codger while playing Satan Rejected my Soul by Morrisey. It's funny, it works.

stokebailey- no all nighter, I fell asleep. I turned on my computer as soon as I woke up though. I'm trying to clean right now but I can't seem resist the hypnotic lure of these plinth people.

I'm glad a woman's up next- women seem to be more interesting then the men (well except for the snow leopard)

Plinthers: the whole world's watching. The current woman is playing to the Trafalgar Square crowd and ignoring us webcammers.

Blasted dialup connection - I can't see any of it.

>>well, maybe as interesting as the guy this afternoon who just sat there drinking beer. Never moved that I saw.<<

C_W didn't tell us he made the cut!

Lee Ann

:)

Nah - I think the beer drinker was a bit younger than our C_W

It is really too bad you can't see them - it is like being in the center of London, there are several camera angles, and the plinthers wear portable mics so we can hear everything going on including some of the hecklers/fans down below.

...and the rain falls on the boring and the nonboring.

Jogging in place. Part of the great portrait.

I've been glancing at it from time to time at work. The 0200-0300 young guy who's starting to wrap himself in aluminum foil looks like someone who understands the visual nature of this project.

You guys are missing something with the 0300-0400 guy, who really understands costuming.

IF you must know, I also liked it when he stripped down to his skivvies so he could put on the white pantyhose and build from there.

oh - great -- I leave for a while and miss skivvies :(

But his costume is beautiful . . . .

David_M. It turns out you can replay them after awhile. Maybe you could fast forward to that point.

Anonymous from 04-0500 is just standing there looking manly and attractive.

OH NOOOOO!

I didn't realize you could go back and view them again (and those you missed the first time around!) When will I ever get out of the house or get any work done????

I'm doomed!!!!! . . . .

I might check Tallulah out sometime when I can turn on the sound. She has a nice sassy look too.

The present one is a female harp playing Alaskan from Scotland.

C_W didn't tell us he made the cut!>>>>

He didn't. Well not yet. There's one draw left - so who knows.

God knows what I'll do if I do get picked. I'm thinking of dressing up as Napoleon and flicking the Vs at Nelson for an hour.

You can still register I believe.

This is quite addictive, currently a young 19th century sculpture specialist who is just being there! But you can see the fountains and people in the square too.

Coming up a campaigner for cycling and safer conditions on London's roads for cyclists. You have to be able to carry the items you take with you, will he get a bike up there?

By the time this current guy gets his act together it'll be time to get off. I hate him already.

You have to be able to carry the items you take with you, will he get a bike up there?>>>

As I have resgistered I have checked this out.

You are lifted into place by a cherry picker.

"<i>You have to be able to carry the items you take with you, will he get a bike up there?</i>"

He wasn't the first one w/ a bike. And some other bulky things have gone up. It look as long as it can get in the cherry picker and the plinther can carry it on/off solo pretty much anything goes.

Now a chatty Scot in a kilt!

>>You are lifted into place by a cherry picker.<<

So it doesn't require anything as sneaky as a plinther movement.

The Scot's trying his best and his accent is quite pleasant. I can only watch 1 min. 30 seconds of these videos before getting bored. Or feel immense sympathy for these people on display.

Rule No. 1: If your name isn't Ewan McGregor, don't wear a kilt.

Rule No. 2: Even if your name IS Ewan McGregor, don't wear a kilt with converse hightops and black socks.

oh - I don't know. A kilt is pretty becoming on most body types IMO

A kilt and a scots brrrr and I'm butter :D

If I were on this plinth, I'd have my laptop and a stool to sit on, and write a trip report on London to post on Fodor's.

Well, the kilt man did seem like a very nice guy. He even offered the next woman a swig from his flask.

>>>Anonymous from 04-0500 is just standing there looking manly and attractive<<<

I had people over last night so I managed to sneak a peak at
about midnight- I saw this guy, and thought the exact same thing! I'm sorry I missed the tinfoil man though.

Apparently the current woman has her husband's ashes up there with her? She's quite pretty.

Is she going to scatter her husband's ashes? Seems she's doing OK. Her husband died in an avalanche on Mount Blanc (according to her bio).

Yup, the ashes are gone with the wind.

I think any fodors posters who are in London should go to Trafalgar Square, get within view of the cameras, and take off their tops or moon the camera when the plinth people get boring.

Did she scatter the ashes???

I always miss the good bits.

Oh no, she's got a gang of guys leering at her.

And she just told one of them to leave her alone and called him a knob.

"How different - how <i>very</i> different - from the home life of our own dear Queen"

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4082402AAhjQTb

did anyone catch the naked lady?? I did but the cute young guy who just proposed marriage to his boyfriend was chatting on the phone and mentioned the naked artist two plinthers before. I went back -- and yep -- Crazyartlady stripped down to her skivvies, painted her self up in red and then black and made prints of her body parts on a couple of big sheets.

American guy up there now. He's surrounded by very very very drunk people. This could be a bloodbath.

That should be "<i>I didn't, but the cute . . . </i>"

Not entirely sure he is a Yank. Probably is, and I did think so at first. But every so often he sounds something else. There was I guy early on - maybe 5 - 6 days ago that definitely sounded American, but he was born in Jamaica . . . .

I think I heard him say something about baking brownies, so my guess is he's probably a transplanted American. Where ever he's from, he did a fantastic job handling all the drunks.

Ok, what are those things that lady has up there with her? Are those what I think they are, or is my mind in the gutter?

She reading poetry and the drunks hate her. They keep yelling "You suck"

Yup, I caught the naked artist lady. I actually saw her in the beginning of her hour, than I checked back in and she was suddenly covered in black paint...a bit too artistic for my tastes at 10am on a Saturday Morning.

Anyone watching now? For the 6am-7am segment, there's a Irish guy sitting in a paddling pool, covered in part fake blood/part real blood from family and friends reading poetry. That's something I could have lived my whole life without seeing. Too bad he wasn't around with all the drunks - looks like he scared everyone away.

Did anyone see the artist who decided that ironing described a woman's place in life? She actually brought on her ironing board, iron, and a basket of clothes - hilarious. I have to go back and see how the crowd reacted to that one.

7am-8am girl now eating breakfast(yogurt?) in a chair - seriously, how did some of these people get picked?

She dropped her spoon while eating, and I couldn't see if she then picked it up, and starting eating with it again! Did she not see the performer before her?!

>>She actually brought on her ironing board, iron, and a basket of clothes - hilarious.<<

They have a power socket up there? This chap must have been wasting his time, then (the setting up takes about 10 minutes before you can see what he's up to):

http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Velorose