> "They may still wonder what the project is and think it's weird but that small detail makes all the difference to me." It absolutely does. That said, the guy

> "They may still wonder what the project is and think it's weird but that small detail makes all the difference to me." It absolutely does. That said, the guy in the article could also very much say something like "I have a personal project where I make an outlandish request every day" and probably gotten more "yes"es. It's all in the intent - I wasn't out there strictly to get rejected, I was out there to take some cool pictures for a project, and learn a few things about cold-approaching people and handling failure. It wasn't intended as rejection therapy, though it did seem like that in the beginning ;)