Sunday, January 16, 2011

Music Gives Soul to the Streets



I'm always up to some kind of experiments. This time I wanted to try out this little blue box where I put on the catchy 'like' button of facebook and the phrase 'Music Gives Soul to the Streets'. The purpose of the experiment was to see if people gave more money to music street performers if this box was there. The reason I wanted to try this was because I believe music truly does liven up the streets and I would personally like to see more diverse instruments from all around the world and also more street performers out there playing. So I thought that this may help attract more people to give out there spare change. Anyways, so I tryed it out at a subway station for 3 hours, and the result was that it actually did attract more people to give money. Some people would look at the box and say, "hmm, clever" and then would dish out some change. In fact one person even dropped a $15 gift card to a resteraunt which. Pretty interesting.