One & Other, a new public art project by Anthony 'Angel of the North' Gormley, involves ordinary folk standing on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth - empty for years and now used to exhibit modern art. (Lots of pics of previous projects on flickr.)
A full 2,400 people get to do this (one an hour for 100 days), and almost 18,000 have applied.
The plinth's in the northwest corner of the square, by the entrance to the main and Sainsbury Wing entrances of the National Gallery.
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There's a live stream on the One & Other website, and naturally, Twitter is loving it - here's a #oneandother Twitterfall.
From the little I watched it seems very British, with people gazing up contemplatively from beneath umbrellas, and occasionally exchanging pleasantries with whoever's on shift (though they could equally be exchanging profanities, I suppose).
It doesn't have the carnival atmosphere that accompanied La Machine's huge mechanical spider as it wandered through Liverpool last year, but it's certainly getting some attention.
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