Pink Uggs

Certain characteristics (North Face, Uggs, iPod, Cell Phones, etc.) were picked. People having these characteristics were followed. If someone crossed our path in the other direction with one of the characteristics, we turned and followed them.

This video relates to Darfur. Why should we, students in the cornfields of Illinois, care about connecting to refugees in Sudan when we cannot connect with each other? We connect and communicate our status to each other via the clothes and items that we display. There is no need for discussion or rapport to understand our situation. But if this is the only way to connect to those in our community, how will be able to understand, much less communicate with and help those living a completely different life in an entirely different place?

Out of two hours of filming and following unsuspecting strangers around the quad not one person turned around and only one person questioned our actions. And he didn't even put up much of an argument to why our filming of people behind their backs was so unsettling.