tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post8283980266641615023..comments2024-03-29T04:56:23.027-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: Rulebook Casefile: Humans of New York #1Matt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-7667044149717379012014-10-27T09:06:32.348-04:002014-10-27T09:06:32.348-04:00In classic three-way polarization (head-heart-gut)...In classic three-way polarization (head-heart-gut), gut characters combine all of the lower regions: stomach, spleen, and cockiness (think Bill Murray), but in four-way polarization (head-heart-stomach-cockiness) and five-way polarization (head-heart-stomach-spleen-cockiness), these are split up, and so you get stomach (and/or stomach/spleen) characters who lack cockiness (Norm on Cheers, the Thing in the Fantastic Four)Matt Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-36024134500775751172014-10-27T03:22:34.708-04:002014-10-27T03:22:34.708-04:00Love the article (and the website). I too would be...Love the article (and the website). I too would be the one without a costume.<br /><br />I have an off topic question for you Matt (or anyone else who may know) - Can someone give me an example of a GUT character who is lacking in self-belief. I know it seems contadictory to the personality of a gut character. Just more of a burnt out Han Solo, where nothing has gone right in his life and so he no longer tries.<br /><br />Thanks in advance for any suggestions.Paul Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15688568338235157470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-76023042264059156622014-10-26T16:39:32.477-04:002014-10-26T16:39:32.477-04:00Very cool that you tried something like this. It&...Very cool that you tried something like this. It's a great idea.<br /><br />"Faith in the fact than any given person could be interesting in some unexpected way" is precisely what's so amazing about the site, Brandon Stanton is coy about the exact questions he asks, but he has an amazing ability to get people to open up very quickly, and then he has an even more amazing ability to identify the most compelling tiny snippet out of whatever they say. Matt Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-86405183304984699622014-10-26T16:27:15.996-04:002014-10-26T16:27:15.996-04:00That's a great lyric!
It's funny because ...That's a great lyric!<br /><br />It's funny because I started my own version of a project like "Humans" as a weekly column in my college paper. The idea was to do interviews with a randomly selected student about nothing in particular except who they were in that moment. (And it was a pretty darn popular feature if I may say so myself!) The NYT has something similar now, called "One in 8 Million," (ours was obviously a much smaller number) though the Times' approach is a bit more story oriented, searching out specific hooks of unique or representative city dwellers. We had more faith in the fact than any given person could be interesting in some unexpected way.j.s.noreply@blogger.com