26. Nick - Are Street Performers Artists?

This week on the podcast we learn a lot more about Street Performers and Buskers from Nick, the the founder of Busk.co an The Busking Project a non profit organisation that helps street performers from all over the world, make money and resolve legal issues, a suppler network for hundreds of talented people. Find out how Nick went from “Sharking” Bankers in New York pool halls at 4 am to founding a platform that helps improve the life of street performers on this weeks episode. Couple of things covered in the episode:  Dropping out of University - Mechanical Degree Moving to New York 1:28 Running Pool Tournaments in New York - Dual Citizens Psychology of Pool 3:08 Writing and Filming Street Performers  Helping Street Performers Working for channel 13 Charity that takes collage drop outs around the world University in Manchester Pool Skill Build Up 08:00 Doing a film 60 000 USD - 8;40 Sorting out the film on the Road 11;30 Spent a whole year filming street Artis around the world 250 video 12:32 !!!! 1500 clips Discrimination 13:30 Criminalisation 14:10 Street Performers would bring news 15:12. - 16:00. !!! Enabling payments via PayPal for Street Performers 19:00 Helping street performers that get arrested 20:00 Custom renting - 22:30 - taking cut of the hat - renting customs !!! Living in Colombia and getting married 25:00 27:15 - Greek Lady - falling in love with Street Performer Entertainment Full Proofing the Economy Street Performing - How Much are they Making 32:00 A whole show with a single trick - getting the hat line right 33:30 Goal of a performer 36:00 The Blood Story + 38:00 The Pool Sharking Story 42:00 The Mind Games of Pool 44:00 Beating the Dutch 9 Ball Champions 47:00 Busk.co OR The Busking Project