4 Comments → “Watch the introductory video”

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   Documentally
   

   2 years ago

   Love it.
   Bus stops tend to be sad places full of people not interacting. If they are engaged with anything it is their mobile phones. Think of all the interaction they are missing out with those around them. Maybe some shared art will change these crowded yet isolatory places.

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   admin
   

   2 years ago

   Thanks so much mate. That thinking is exactly what prompted and informed my and @p4u7a’s thinking for the project. Tom Armitage said some really interesting things also about how bus stops are this awesome nexus of information, being as they are situated permanently in spaces surrounded by buildings and businesses that are constantly generating information. Imagine that alongside the art we’re talking about; all that information the displays could tap into, and talk about it in a local context.

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   Beth Barlow
   

   1 year ago

   I disagree with Documentally. I have had some of my best conversations at bus stops or on trains. I think that people are more inclined to engage in small talk because they know that when the bus comes round the corner that interaction can come to an end. There is also the common ground of grumbling about the lateness of the transport of the cutting nature of the wind. I've done interviews at bus stops because they work much better than trying to grab people as they walk by or cornering people in a situation they fear may not end quickly. Also what a ground for hearing people when they talk loudly on a mobile phones, giving access to conversations which in the past we would have conducted in a private room on a phone stool.

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   Bus stop public art project gets green light | Applejackson
   

   1 year ago

   [...] here’s their short video introduction on the Bus.tops site. There’s some annoying ‘urban’ jazz, and one of the artists [...]

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