Once i was on a tram or an escalator or an elevator i couldn’t suddenly stop them from moving they were all designed to stop at a certain point or not stop at all(escalator). Where and when they stopped and where and when they started moving again was out of my control. Same with the automatic and rotating doors, i couldn’t force them to close or open when i wanted them to, as they were ‘automatic’.

Some of the things that i noticed taking videos on and of those uncontrollable transports were

• The moving cars next to the tram feel so much closer to yourself in the video footage than in reality because the glass window of the tram is un-noticable so the barrier between yourself and the busy road seems non existent.
• When filming inside the elevator, there is almost no movement spotted except for the people moving inside but the movement of the actual elevator cannot be captured visually. However i noticed that audio creates the sense of movement.
• Although the rotating door is intended to fit more people to pass through, I noticed that with our rotating doors at RMIT, No more than 1 (hardly 2 or 3)  voluntarily went into the same partition.

I have also noticed that when we are on moving transports that are not controlled by ourselves we are sometimes forced to notice and pay attention so we know when to start moving again or actually stall from noticing anything and going on our phones.

Overall i think we notice more through the media we take in an uncontrollable situation than we do with our eyes or brains. Because they are uncontrollable and not our responsibility to stop or start anything, we don’t have to stay alert and we really don’t pay much attention to anything about the uncontrollable transport. Most of the times i realised that people are on their phones and the few times that they are not and looking out the window, too many things passes by too quickly for them to process what they’ve noticed unless its something unordinary. I think these days, our bodies and minds are snugly accustomed to automatic uncontrollable movement noticing has become a challenge in those conditions.

• How can we adhere ourselves to notice more in those uncontrollable moving conditions?