no “walking through doors at port authority to go home” fashion blog? oh yeah, it’s creepy.
Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee: thghts while waiting - sid …
so, now that i’m commuting full-time in and out of manhattan each day, sometimes i’ll meet up with katie. i had this gem while doing just that today and it sorta touches on a few different things.
- while fleetingly cool, the idea of such a blog got creepy in execution. intently watching people - frazzled and rushed, plow through a vaguely symbolic threshold. capturing who they are and what they’re wearing at that very moment. part satorialist, part StoryCorp.
- i’m not sure why i focus so much on “moments” like this. why i find it interesting or even useful. maybe because they’re many different things? a summation, a slice, an expectation or an indication. capturing them with proper or unique perspective might tell us or show us things that weren’t there before. or it couldn’t.
- there is a bit of an existential challenge here - are big blogs about sweeping verticals successful because they’re easy to digest? or does everything start with a focused interest? challenging our minds to extrapolate sometimes leads a bit more than showing and asking to separate.
