An artist attempts to draw every person in New York City

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You are being drawn. If you are walking on the streets of New York City, there’s a chance that an artist named Jason Polan is taking a flare pen and firing up his sketch pad. After two months, Polan has drawn 500 New Yorkers and he aims to draw a few million more.

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