{"id":1531,"date":"2007-03-05T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:43:45","slug":"subway-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/05\/subway-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.razorapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/bill-sullivan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll admit it. I have a staring problem.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I ride the TTC, I look at people&#8217;s faces and wonder what their story is. It helps pass the time and helps me humanize the otherwise monotonous commute. What is going on in their life? Why isn&#8217;t anyone smiling? What are they listening too? What are they reading? Where are they going? Where are they coming from?<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the photos of Bill Sullivan makes me feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan is a New York-based photographer whose &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3situations.com\/BillSullivanWorks\/MTmaster.html\">More Stops<\/a>&#8221; project (pictured above) captured people as they passed through the turnstiles of the NYC subway. It&#8217;s one part of a three-part series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3situations.com\/BillSullivanWorks\/writing.html\">situational photography<\/a> projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">I developed a situation so that various subjects could be defined by the constraints of exactly the same mechanical apparatus. The scenario consisted of someone passing through a subway turnstile. At the moment that the subjects passed through the turnstile, unknown to them, I took their picture stationed at a distance of eleven feet. I stood there turning pages of a magazine observing subjects out of the corner of my eye, waiting for only the moment when they pushed the turnstile bar to release the shutter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshspear.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/su2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Yvonne Doll is a Chicago based musician and artist whose &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepyurbanite.com\/\">SleepyUrbanite<\/a>&#8221; project captured the moments when bedtime and commuting time coalesce, all via her cell phone camera.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">I ride the train to work everyday. I found myself amazed by all of the different faces&#8230; people are dreaming all around you on the train &#8212; one of the most crowded places, but also one of the most isolated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Bill Sullivan image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razorapple.com\/\">Razor Apple<\/a>; Sleepyurbanite image via <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-admin\/www.joshspear.com\">Josh Spear<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll admit it. I have a staring problem. Whenever I ride the TTC, I look at people&#8217;s faces and wonder what their story is. It helps pass the time and helps me humanize the otherwise monotonous commute. What is going on in their life? Why isn&#8217;t anyone smiling? What are they listening too? What<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/05\/subway-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Subway Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21758,8],"tags":[4588,865,431,4590,26,4589],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-transit","tag-bill-sullivan","tag-cellular-telephone","tag-chicago","tag-musician-and-artist","tag-people","tag-yvonne-doll"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Subway Life - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/05\/subway-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Subway Life - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ok, I&#8217;ll admit it. 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