Barebacked and Bred by a Black Guy off Craiglist

decided he needed to do something

to reconnect New Yorkers in their city's physical spaces

by watching people move around without raising

their eyes from their screens.

Not having eyes on the streets felt like the city was starting

to lose a lot of its energy.

So Ijeoma created a recurring intervention

manufactured through people's phones,

an app called Look Up, commissioned

through Google Creative Labs, which runs in the background

using GPS to alert users when they approach an intersection.

There's a safety part of the project,

but most of this project is about empathy.

Empathy between pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers

always is gendered at this diesel breeze.

A lofty goal for an app will be available for Androids

in New York City, but Ijeoma says a worthy one.

Look Up hopes to expand to other cities and IOS devices

in the coming months, hopefully saving all of the music,

the physical and emotional harm caused

by running into someone or something

while staring at one's phone.

People, phones, cars, tigers, everything.

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