For our third project, Jess and I wanted to focus on the idea of community and what that is exactly. In trying to figure this out, we decided that community is made up of two things, the structures that people inhabit and the people that inhabit them. We went around to 6 consumer stores with a tape recorder and recorded conversations people were having. We got as close to them as possible under the guise of looking at a scarf, or some DVDs, disguising ourselves as consumers as well. After we finished doing this, we then went back to our studio and listened to the recordings we had accumulated. While listening to them, we wrote down the words and sounds that we heard, as a practice of giving the intangible idea of "community" a tangible counter part. The next two posts contain a picture and the introductory paragraph from the books that we compiled from the images we created of community.