2013-04-09
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“I screen shot this from a live web cam feed in Trafalgar Square in London…” by Staci Frederick on Facebook.
2013-03-24
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2013-02-28
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The San Francisco-based company wants people to contribute their own live video feeds from wherever they are, in order to knit together a network that shows what traffic patterns are like, if a parking spot is available on that block, and whether that park is crowded today.
2013-01-31
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Michael Hebbert, in the A Walking Tour section of The City Of London Walkway Experiment.
Written in 1993, that’s just as true now; however, vast chunks of the system he describes are gone, including the bulk of the Liverpool Street - Leadenhall section.
2012-04-28
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USA, New Mexico, Farmington: Neighbours by kool_skatkat on Flickr, as seen in an essay by Randy Lewis of the University of Texas Austin entitled God is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance (via). A choice quote:
Will the proliferation of small, powerful, and networked surveillance cameras represent an unprecedented expansion of vision, one that approaches certain aspects of the divine omnivalence described in Proverbs 15:3: “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good”?
It’s well worth a read.
2012-03-29
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CCTV camera and security light, taken with One Bit Camera.
(Source: onebitcamera)
2012-02-07
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Plaza de George Orwell, Barcelona, by karramarro. George Orwell’s home, near Wingate by Steve Ullathorne via Mark Birch.
Edit, 2012-04-02: Apparently the second image is not real, but is a deliberate work of art (via, via).
2010-04-13
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4 HOUR CCTV, by Martin Deutsch. (If you know where it is, you can win plaudits (but not much else) in the Guess Where London? group by commenting on Flickr.)
2009-08-29
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“A police officer stood in front of a bank of TV monitors in the special operations room of the Central Communications Command center in Lambeth in London on Tuesday. Police are on alert this week for possible disruptions by climate change activists.”
Photo by Dan Kitwood, Getty Images. From Pictures of the Day in the Wall Street Journal.
2009-07-28
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Martin Deutsch (again, sorry; but he says interesting things I like responding to) on the reports that the NYC MTA are to use CCTV in the New York Post.
A random, longwinded observation of my own. Those “secure beneath the watchful eyes” ads that everyone from Boing Boing down took exception to (years after they were actually on the streets)? I was never that bothered by them, either. At least if you’re going to have CCTV, tell people about it.
