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The first thing that struck me (After I got over the whole, creepy/horror/revulsion thing) was how much more fun people seemed in their social media lives. Rat
by alexc05 11y ago
The first thing that struck me (After I got over the whole, creepy/horror/revulsion thing) was how much more fun people seemed in their social media lives.
Rather than seeing this as an exposition of "people on social media are so much more bland than they appear" I found myself feeling "people on the subway are so much more beautiful and interesting in their 'real life'"
I feel like that might be backwards from how it gets presented elsewhere.
But, if you look for example at the blonde woman snarling a piece of cake https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-face-big-data.html https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-... (second last) I thought, that was charming and funny... But you'd never know that from under they grey fluorescent lights of the subway car.
It's really interesting to be confronted with the realization that every single person filling up space on the subway around you has a rich and lustrous story that brought them to that place and time.
Still, super creepy.
- tcdent 11y agoIn a word: empathy. Nothing beats the visceral explanation of a demo, though.
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- djhn 11y agoDon't ignore the advantage of having been taken by a professional photographer, who maybe even specializes in portraits of people, with a high-quality lens attached to a high-quality body.
- xerophyte12932 11y agoYou are right, I saw this as that as well. Someone who looks bland may actually have a very fun and colorful life. That's an important lesson here.
- sangnoir 11y ago> It's really interesting to be confronted with the realization that every single person filling up space on the subway around you has a rich and lustrous story that brought them to that place and time. The dictionary of obscure sorrows[1] names this feeling "Sonder" The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness 1. it's a made-up word, not a formal English one. http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/s...
- alexc05 11y agoLovely! But quite the opposite of a sorrow, I felt it was a somewhat beautiful realization. I'm sure if I was having a low day it could take it as a sort of "we're insignificant specks on a floating rock" but I was having a great day so tra-la-la :)
- SixSigma 11y ago> it's a made-up word most are
- hellbanner 11y agoI noticed that many of these people photographed were staring at their own phones!