So I've just finished a new vid, which I should probably post in the next day or so. Its all about journeys, and people who see each other every day but who have never actually met.
Basically, I was listening to Adele's Hometown Glory thinking about my own city, and what the people were like in my city. I always get the bus into work so I thought this time I would film my own journey, and look at everyone elses journey which surrounds it.
May I just thank the massive spot of luck I had in this video where my bus stopped for 5 minutes outside the sofa shop place with the bloke outside having his cigarette. This is the first moment of interaction I saw of two people on their own seperate journeys, when he opened the door for someone whilst talking. Hence, why the film quality gets better here, and then goes downhill again as the seperate journeys continue, parrallel to others but never actually meeting or joining together and the interaction/film quality worsens. I think this is highlighted on the bus stops I passed and when everyone got off at the same bus stop however, went on their own different ways.
How many times a week do they take the same bus, and get off at the same stop as the person sitting right next to them, yet they have never spoke. How many people get on the same bus as me? Complete the exact same journey as me, and I have never spoke to them?
Will it ever happen? Probably not.
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- JaffaSam
- Ok, well most of you, if not all, will know me from my Youtube channel JaffaSam. I'm 20 years old, go to Bath Spa University and well, I dunno what else to say really.
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Deep in The Grauniad's 80s archive is an article, I think by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, where he described his daily commute to London by train. After concluding he was unlikely ever to get a seat, he chose to travel daily in the guards van, one of five or six passengers who did so. He described how they never spoke, only half-acknowledging each other with a glance. However, if someone didn't turn up one day, he could sense the anxiety among his fellow travellers, and the look of relief when they next appeared.
It's similar on the Tube, I think there must be an unwritten rule for London Underground that demands passengers must not speak, only broken by those not familiar with the City.
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