Playing with Chance: My Results

For step one I started at the front of the pier and worked my way down asking as many people for high fives as I could, I probably would have gotten more if I hadn't tried explaining what it was for to each person I asked.  My high five race led me to the back of Pier 39, I got 11 high fives so I counted down my recent calls list to the name “Andrew.”  I used the ‘A’ in his name to lead me to my first store, Alpaca Fashion… But it was closed.  So, we moved onto the next shop with an ‘A’ in its title and that was Alcatraz Gift Shop.  

After roaming around the store for a while pretending to look at things, a man was leaving to meet back up with a group of his friends. We followed them as they worked their way around a corner and into the Bubba Gump Gift Shop, I continued to follow him around the store but his friends rushed him out and he never got a chance to notice me.  

Here's me being a creeper following my victim in the gray shirt.

This led me to option B in Step 3, going to the Sea Lion viewing area on the side of the pier.  Once I got there I was instructed to blow bubbles at passersby and was lucky enough to have some kids around me to react to them by running through and trying to pop them, a couple adults participated too.

Here's the photo I took of my surroundings from Step 4.

By the time my two minutes were up, I was at five people.  I counted down my contacts and came to the name Dalya A, I gave her a call but no answer… So I counted down five more names and landed on Carolyn B.  She answered and told me her favorite color was turquoise, the most turquoise building I could find was a shop called Bliss and the first turquoise item I found were these earrings for 12 dollars. 

This gave me 12 minutes to work on my drawing.  We found the nearest bench and I pulled the words ‘flying,’ ‘detective,’ and ‘fire.’  For my drawing  I had to incorporate these words as well as what I saw at the Sea Lion viewing area, this is what I came up with: