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My Experience Busking in San Francisco

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Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco

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post #49

Steve - how do you feel about people taking photos or video of you?

I welcome it. I enjoy the challenge of staying focused when I notice out of the corner of my eye a crowd forming or people filming.

Sometimes I cope by playing with my eyes closed. Violinists have options where to position their eyes: on their bow, on their fingers (rare, but helpful sometimes in practice), out into space, or closed. For example, James Ehnes and Hilary Hahn look at their bows, but Itzhak Perlman and many others play with their eyes closed. I focus on the bow, but when someone is taking a video, I might close my eyes to remove the distractions.

Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco

#52
> And I fully understand the picture of inequity created when someone donates to a musician while homeless people are on the ground yards away.

"Inequity"? Yea, right. I sure feel inequitably about those who make our public spaces more vs less pleasant.

Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco

#53
post #35

Not that I give many to any buskers or beggars, but I'd rather give money to people that are not causing noise pollution rather than to people that are.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11929625 and marked it off-topic.

Doesn't seem off-topic to me.

Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco

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post #28
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What instrument and music?

Bassoon and Miami Bass style hip hop.

I encounter too many buskers to feel like paying on a regular basis, but I'd have dropped some cash in your case if you were even remotely able to pull this off!

Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11929625 and marked it off-topic.

Doesn't seem off-topic to me.

It was pretty obviously designed to be provocative (i.e. trolling), which is close enough.
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