Tumblr Introduction

For my tumblr project I wanted to base it on how people interact with one another on public transportation. This will be mainly focused on the funny and entertaining things that people do on the train, but it will also include some heartfelt stories of rare acts of kindness involving public transportation. I decided to focus in on the train because in today's society many people take the train everyday to work or school and see there are often very strange and entertaining things happening in the train cars and I wanted to make a collection of some of the things that people get away with on the train because people acting strange has almost become white noise to the everyday passenger at this point. Today it is a lot easier to capture a photograph because almost everyone has a camera on their mobile phones so that makes it easier to  snap a quick photo of a funny moment that in the past would not have been able to be captured. I think that some people use public transportation as a way to express themselves or even to make a living. Stepping onto a train could be like stepping into another world where you never know what to expect. Each train car you enter is a different experience. One car could have people break dancing and getting the whole crowd into it, and another car could have one very strange person that everyone else is trying to avoid.

This tumblr will mostly consist of photographs of people doing unusual things on the train. This could be a person dressed up in a strange costume, or doing something unusual or entertaining. I will also include many youtube videos and .gifs of people’s feelings or reactions to certain situations involving public transportation as well as entertaining or funny moments that passengers caught on camera. For the written portion I will include some craigslist missed connects about people on the train as well as police records of crimes committed on the cta.