Artist George Ferrandi has been doing something similar for a good while now. (And sheās not trying to cash in on a viral photo.)
I guess this is regional or cultural. People sleep on each other all the time on Tokyo trains.
Hm. That didnāt sound right.
It would all depend on how smelly the sleeper was and how vigorous the lean is
āAnd that, my son, is how I caught impetigoā¦ā
In the UK I think youād ask them to wake up, but apologise for doing so. Or if youāre a bit shy leave them to it, and wait for them to wake up to apologise.
I think there are also other obvious factors at play, such as weight/size ratio between sleeper and sleepee, length of the trip, and how tight the space is.
I might let it slide on a subway trip for a half an hour with someone who is my same relative size, but I can distinctly remember a very uncomfortable 8-hour Greyhound bus ride when I was a small, 125 lb. teenager being used as a human pillow by a large 225 lb.(at least) man. Not even repeated jabs in the side would make this guy understand how I felt about it.
(Clears throat) āDum-de dum-dum; dum-de-dum; Dum-de dum-dum; dum-de-dum; dum-de-dum-dum; deeeeeee-da dum!ā
(Hitchcock if you couldnāt suss that)
Sometimes Iām glad Iām from the countryā¦
How well dressed and groomed was the guy who pretended to fall asleep on people?
Not especially, as you can see if you watch the video.
Iām not onboard with this supposed āexperiment.ā It comes across to me like more narcissistic hipster self-display, and worse yet, using āurbanā people as a prop to do so.
Edit: and it doesnāt help that the message sounds like itās lifted from a Hallmark card.
Agreed.
Hereās another entertaining video on Public Transit. This man makes fun of complaining passengers on a Bus in Los Angeles.
Yo dog, the only āthreatā to my sense of personal space is the occasional inaesthetic homeless person, so Iām going to make an art project about violating peopleās personal space, itāll be awesome!
Amen, thank you. Itās like the douchey cousin of āimprov everywhereāā¦
I have actually fallen asleep on some one before. They were nice about it, but then again Iām pretty much the definition of not-threatening. Iāve had some one nod off on me once or twice. I will admitā¦ I check my bag to see if they are maybe faking to lift stuff off of me. Other than that I donāt care. Itās kind of sad, but if you lead the right kind of life this might be the closest human contact you have for daysā¦ so sleep on (so long as you arenāt stealing my stuff or masturbating on me).
I think the original photo struck a chord because the person being dozed upon was wearing a yarmulke and the person sleeping was an African American with a hoodie. There was a lot of story telling in the photo by the way the people were dressed, so the long nap had this element of surprise to it. I feel like the video lacks that punch.
Oh, hai! An āart projectā that involves gross invasion of personal space and screwing with people with social anxiety of any sort. Iām not going to give them the clicks to see how they denigrate anyone who reacts negatively, but Iām envisioning a lot of ālook at the racist appalled that someone who doesnāt look like them is totally fucking with them! Donāt they suck!ā.
I have an ideaā¦Iāll sit on subways and pretend to be asleep and then casually grab the tit of anyone who sits next to me. And film it. Itās totally cool because itās art and stuff. Hey, BoingBoing thinks its cool so I must be in the clear. Anyone who thinks their personal space is more important that some hipster douchebags YouTube hit count is obviously a bad person, amiright?
