Books & Lit
Seen Reading on the TTC
One of the more bizarre blogs created in Toronto has to be Seen Reading. It's the product of Julie Wilson's efforts to document what people are reading on the TTC. Not only does she keep a record of the name of the book, but she also guess-timates what passage the reader is reading at the time she spotted them and then infers some info about them and what feelings or emotions they might be experiencing at that moment in time.
Here's an example of a post about a woman she spotted on the Spadina streetcar reading John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent.
Now, someone has spied on Julie and it's our friends over at Dear Toronto. Just before Christmas they tagged along with her as she cruised the Bloor subway line looking for new material. Their video is embedded above.
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truly unprecedented and useful.
great marketing data collection.
awesome depth.
lots of negative opinion here directed towards Seen Reading. maybe someone should come to where u work or play and crap all over the uselessness of what u do.
nah.
interesting social studies experiment i say.
And she doesn't take pictures of people - she merely takes notes. The camera was present because of the Dear Toronto blog crew.
Afraid you're gonna get caught with some Furry Erotic?
Very interesting stuff Julie; and thanks for sharing Tim
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people need to get over themselves.
The only thing Julie does differently is that she looks at what you're reading and makes you the star of your own fiction :)