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3 and a half hours left in “Hello, can you see me?” That’s Lia Bulaong’s project: twenty four people in NYC cel phone photoblogging to one site for 48 hours. In addition to the experience of being able to follow 24 peoples’ experiences as they move through life in the city for two days, it was super fun to be part of. I wasn’t one of the camera wielding participants, but I hung out with one of them, Keith Porteous, for an hour, and it was a good time. Kind of felt like we were part of some big game. And it greased the rails of our social interaction since we’d hardly ever hung out one on one before. The photographer were selected as far as I can tell, from people within Lia’s (extensive) social networks. I think it would be spiffy to do it with a really disparate group representing the crazy age, economic, and ethnic variety of New York City. Like a Haitian 12 year old, a Pakistani cab driver, an old Ukrainian lady in a rest home, etc. Or to do it w/different subcultures. Say a bunch of Middle School Kids in Flatbush. Someone on Lia’s blog already posted her intent to do something in another context:

“….I myself am working on a similar concept and have been toying around with using these ideas in a nursing home.”

Doesn’t that sound rad? I would so check that out. This kind of stuff gets my voyeuristic tendencies all in an uproar. More!