Berto:
Descriptions (First is true):
An ex-model from afghanistan that came to the U.S. and had to change his name in order to be accepted in american society.
An ex-lawyer that made it in the 90s and now likes to enjoy a simple life.
A chef from mexico that cooked in New York’s finest restaurants.
An accountant that managed Marilyn monroe’s money.
A famous songwriter from mexico that wrote theme songs for luchadors.
The manager of a traveling circus that settled in NYC 12 years ago because he liked people watching.
A silent film director that worked with canon developing their first video cameras
The inventor of the slap chop that made millions in his 60s.
The editor of the New York Times in his “golden years” but now reads it and finds spelling errors for fun.
Mike:
Descriptions (First is true):
A doctor that studied at UNM but grew up in a town 45 minutes away from my home town.
A professor from UNM at a conference in NYC about new stem cell research.
A punk rocker that graduated UNM with a degree in music.
A researcher studying central park and its decibel level in different points.
The head cinematographer of the next Marvel film. Top secret shhhh.
A baker moving to NYC to pursue his dreams of becoming the next cake boss.
A chef that works at Numa, working his way up the ladder.
The inventor of flex seal, in NYC to debut his new product in the flex line.
A CIA agent that only told me he was a CIA agent because i saw his badge.
Anthony:
Descriptions (First is true):
A student studying optometry because he is colorblind so he could not follow his passions but wants to learn about his condition.
An NYU student in business but wants to pursue art because it was his favorite class in high school and told me he wishes he could have gone to parsons.
A man working at the Joe’s Pizzeria saving up for a new apartment in brooklyn.
A parsons student studying communications design and is designing covers for make magazine.
A guy just strolling through the park to people watch.
A zookeeper at the bronx zoo that researches the social constructs of apes.
Some guy that tried to sell me pot.
My new drug dealer.
A doctor that once stitched up Mike Tyson after a fight and has become friends with him and got to pet his tiger.
Reflection:
Bridge 4 consisted of going into the city in groups of two, with a camera and our smiles to interview people and then photograph them. Yes, it does sound just like people of New York but there was an added twist. After the photos had been taken we were required to write descriptions for the people we had photos of. We wrote 8 false descriptions and threw the real one in the mix to see if our classmates could guess the real description but also to challenge people to not look past first perceptions.
This process had a few speed bumps along the way, people that didn’t want to talk, me being shy, and people using technology were just a few. I am a shy person when it comes to talking to strangers so obviously starting the conversations with these people was difficult to me, especially when the first time I tried to talk to someone they declined my offer. A lot of people were wearing headphones so that dwindled the number of possible conversations. I ended up still talking to to a few people and I was glad that I did because they were all suck unique people that I would never had met if it wasn’t for this project. I have since talked to more strangers and made more connections with people.
Writing false life descriptions for people was actually a lot more challenging than I had first anticipated. I could write four super easily then struggled through the rest. Barely anyone actually guessed my actual descriptions. All of my people look so unique that they could literally be anything so it was hard to actually see what they were. This project ended up opening my eyes more to talking to strangers and connecting with people and I actually enjoyed the process.
