Comments on: The Body Electric http://desedo.com/blog/the-body-electric/ a blog by desedo Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:59:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nerditry http://desedo.com/blog/the-body-electric/comment-page-1/#comment-220 nerditry Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:35:01 +0000 http://desedo.com/blog/the-body-electric/#comment-220 I do the same thing and as someone that doesn't have foot traffic where he lives (Orlando) it seemed to genuinely wig New Yorkers out. It pulls people into the moment, however fleeting, and requires that they make some kind of action. It almost feels aggressive in regard to paying attention to no thing at all besides moving. You've now incited that person to respond to your looking at them in the eye. They have to specifically return the look or demure and look down. Not something their reputation would predict. I do the same thing and as someone that doesn’t have foot traffic where he lives (Orlando) it seemed to genuinely wig New Yorkers out. It pulls people into the moment, however fleeting, and requires that they make some kind of action.

It almost feels aggressive in regard to paying attention to no thing at all besides moving. You’ve now incited that person to respond to your looking at them in the eye. They have to specifically return the look or demure and look down. Not something their reputation would predict.

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