Today our group is meeting at the train station around 4:00. Individually we all bring something different to the group which is sure to help us in documenting and understanding our surroundings. We are beginning with placing pictures of sunny with captions that are intended to bring curiosity to viewers and the number of the hipcast for them to call if they see him. We will be searching to see if people can identify himself to the picture no matter what he is doing. He will be in different locations with in the train station over the next few hours. We will attempt to do this for the next 3 days? We are interested to see the type of people that are observant. Which stereotype of a person passing through new brunswick on this train station is bound to notice? After doing this with the only male in our group. One of us girls will have to step up and do the same things sunny did with our picture surfacing all over the station. It is common curiosity to see which sex will get more phone calls to the hipcast and both if any?
This project hits everyone close to home, because we are living in this city, and over the years many people have traveled in and out smuggling in different illegal substances, weapons, and even people in human trafficking. The train station is a basis for different types of people in different places, with dangers everywhere. posting our faces all over the station is part of understanding the type of people at the station during different times and days, and their reasons for being on the train. Are they observant? Are we being overly observant? Are people faced with anxiety? Which age groups and social statuses notice things more than the other?
-amanda
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