Review note on Day 2 & 3 - Pinhole - Karachi to Linz

what usually happens in the sort of thing we 've tried so far is that its people on the street who just want to peek. then a crowd gathers. while we volunteer the headphone to talk to austria with picture.

its been male 95 %

usually there is one or two people who can speak english and nwho are eager to talk. sometimes there are kids on both sides. the whole things is quite humorous and surprising at the same time, and yet its random street corner stuff at the same time.

one boy even told us that anybody can do this: he can skype from home, obviously missing missing the point of people around the box, who have never used the internet or seen what it is and those who use netcafe's when they need to.

in his attempt to communicate despite different languages, one guy tried sveral inclusding pushto, pounjabi, and urdu, and soon enough one indian guy joined in the conversation, as curiously piqued as these guys... the guy in karachi had started by saying : wo aagaya kaala, kalay !! apna bhaai, "there he is, a black brother here !!".

another introduced himself by saying he had worked for agerman company for 10 years in abudhabi !

so there were mochis (cobblners), a/c repairmen, passers by, waiters, rikshawala, children selling flowers, and unknown others. one guy wanted to do commercial venture with us at his space near baloch colony.

others practised their english. girls in linz evoked general enthusiasm in the hattempt to communicate, in a general urgency bordering on desperation to communicate.

the conversation and utterances sometimes veered of polite discourse, but usually brought back by others there or one of us. they were telling them about the city and country :)

so we could make up scenarios., because we have themes also. this time its inside outside i think? atteqa?

so we can brief the person at this end, while also showing the new person in linz the theme on a paper 'inside outside'. also we could keep the pace fast, by asking people to use the headphone for 5 min only ...(for example) then pass on to the next person

i think we can be a bit organized to document better also and/or play a game or two

the background environment is also important. market, beach, street, landscape ....