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This reminds me of the old YouTube art project "Surveillance Camera Man". Since taken off YouTube, but you can still find mirrors. https://archive.org/detail

This reminds me of the old YouTube art project "Surveillance Camera Man". Since taken off YouTube, but you can still find mirrors. https://archive.org/details/SurveillanceCameraMan18 https://archive.org/details/SurveillanceCameraMan18

anonymfus 8y ago
And me this reminds how I filmed anti corruption protest in Russia in 2017 and was detained by a police for nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmuNI4CEGk&t=8435 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmuNI4CEGk&t=8435 (since 2:20:35). Video ends when police officer asks me to stop filming because of a rule about not filming in meat wagons that he just invented, and I agree. Later outside of the meat wagon he told me to delete a video. I asked him if I understood correctly that my recording was illegal action and he wanted me to destroy an evidence of that illegal action. Immediately four other policemen lifted me up and carried in their hands to the police station, put me in separate room, confiscated my phone and documents, and then he punched me in the kidneys. That room apparently was the only one in a police station without surveillance cameras. I spend the rest of the day in a special unventilated cage covered with lists of acrylic glass together with a guy who later was carried away by an ambulance because there was not enough air for two people in the cage. Police hard reset my phone but probably because they were idiots and I use Windows Phone a microSD card with all my video was left intact. I was fined by 1000₽ by Russian court which watched the video I recorded and found not enough evidence of me being innocent on the base of the reports written by completely different police officers instead of these I filmed detaining me. The court refused to call witnesses. The same happened during appellation.
vokep 8y ago
When those vids were first made I thought it wasn't very good at making a point because, a guy walking up to you with a camera and just sitting there with it is obviously quite creepy. But why is it creepy?...because I don't know what he'll do with that video and it just establishes a weird dynamic to the situation. But then why am I okay with a camera in the ceiling? I suppose the alternative would be actual eyes, say if a convenience store had the budget for that, an equivalent to their ceiling-cams would be a security guys watching you and everyone else as they shop.

anonymfus 8y ago

And me this reminds how I filmed anti corruption protest in Russia in 2017 and was detained by a police for nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmuNI4CEGk&t=8435 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmuNI4CEGk&t=8435 (since 2:20:35). Video ends when police officer asks me to stop filming because of a rule about not filming in meat wagons that he just invented, and I agree. Later outside of the meat wagon he told me to delete a video. I asked him if I understood correctly that my recording was illegal action and he wanted me to destroy an evidence of that illegal action. Immediately four other policemen lifted me up and carried in their hands to the police station, put me in separate room, confiscated my phone and documents, and then he punched me in the kidneys. That room apparently was the only one in a police station without surveillance cameras. I spend the rest of the day in a special unventilated cage covered with lists of acrylic glass together with a guy who later was carried away by an ambulance because there was not enough air for two people in the cage. Police hard reset my phone but probably because they were idiots and I use Windows Phone a microSD card with all my video was left intact. I was fined by 1000₽ by Russian court which watched the video I recorded and found not enough evidence of me being innocent on the base of the reports written by completely different police officers instead of these I filmed detaining me. The court refused to call witnesses. The same happened during appellation.

vokep 8y ago

When those vids were first made I thought it wasn't very good at making a point because, a guy walking up to you with a camera and just sitting there with it is obviously quite creepy. But why is it creepy?...because I don't know what he'll do with that video and it just establishes a weird dynamic to the situation. But then why am I okay with a camera in the ceiling? I suppose the alternative would be actual eyes, say if a convenience store had the budget for that, an equivalent to their ceiling-cams would be a security guys watching you and everyone else as they shop.