The Eight Minute Forty Six Second Video

The 18 minute mp3.

It was kind of windy, so what's posted is what was (semi-)audible. Some of us found this task to be surprisingly difficult: It's very easy to sound patronizing when complimenting a stranger for absolutely no reason at all.

Cool camera...


Cute babies...


This dude had a rockin' beard, and then a pillow fight broke out...


Sweet leather bag...


Nice socks... and an awesome stroller!


The awesome group from Houston...


Even birds couldn't escape the Flattery Brigade's onslaught of compliments, such as "You're a sexy pigeon," or "That's an impressive wingspan."


Jason says: This was hard to pull off convincingly without seeming like a mob of some sort, with as many people as we had. (On that note, go do a task with Vector sometime, he's a madman in a good way.) Some possible suggestions for those looking to do this task:

1) Do it with less people. You'll seem less like a mob, you won't set off some people's inherent social blocks that go up around large groups of folks on the street.

2) Spread yourself out if you have the numbers. It might be more interesting, if you have four or more people, to spread yourself along the length of a block, adding benign strangeness to the days of people walking along that way, if they receive more than one separate compliment along such a short stretch.