Living Statues in New York City

[mildreddavis1]

Wikipedia describes Living Statues as a mime artist who poses like a statue or mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time.

I had the pleasure of actually seeing Living Statues when I lived in New York. I was and still amazed by the fact that they can stand still for a long period of time with paint and sometimes glitter all over their bodies.

I would see Living Statues in the Central Park and in the Times Square Subway Station.

[acurtsinger2]

boy that would take a lot of patience and could you imagine doing that on a really hot day or when some rude drunk or crazy person was bugging you?   kudos to the living statues

[diala84]

I've never seen them in real life but it does sound amazing. Especially if there are so good you don't notice they are real people. It would be a hard job for most unless you think alot in your head without much outside stimulus anyway.

[mjdoug03]

Yeah I think those people are amazing.  I don't understand how they stand still for so long!  It's crazy awesome.

[Shandara09]

I saw some similar to that in New Orleans.  Was fun to watch people interact with them and give them a tip to see them move.

[jnjmolly]

I saw a few of them in Las Vegas and they were awesome and I took many photos standing  next to them!!

[lucky382001]

boy that would take a lot of patience and could you imagine doing that on a really hot day or when some rude drunk or crazy person was bugging you?   kudos to the living statues

Or pigeons!

[BaudLight]

I remember seeing "living mannequins" in some of the clothing stores modeling various apparel.  Seems that this was a trend back in the 80's.

[davidh121]

I've seen a number of them in my lifetime and some are pretty convincing too. I tend to see them pretty consistently when I'm in Vegas in places like the Venetician.