Glogger, Social Dynamics, EyeTap, Jason Nolan's Complicity Theory: In Honor of World Sousveillance Day, taken in villefranche-sur-mer, france on the side of the building on this map... Other links: 3rd Eye; Wetware, Tell Government Say Cheese...

Just in from Ariel:

Prepare for December 24th

To prepare for your participation in Operation Python, simply print out a few copies of this and bring them with you when you go shoping on the biggest shopping day of the year, December 24th.

Participate on December 24th

To participate, simply photograph each person who handles your credit card, and then hand them a copy of this. Hopefully the people you photograph will join Operation Python by also photographing the people who handle their credit cards, leading to a chain-letter effect, as this letter gets sent on down the line... As long as a small percentage of the people you photograph join Operation Python, this social movement will grow to constrict credit card fraud!


Operation Python

(Stop Skimming Scams)


Many of us have been victims of "skimming", when sales staff, waiters or managers illegally skim an extra copy of our credit card.


Although the credit card companies often re-imburse us for this lost money, ultimately it costs us all --- customers and merchants alike --- by way of increased credit card fees.

But working together, we can prevent crime with OP (Operation Python) that Stops Skim Scams (SSS, pronounced with a hiss). It's easy to join OP, all you need is a camera or use your Cameraphones to

Document credit card purchases:

By photographing everyone who handles our credit cards, we're collecting potential evidence that MIGHT be of later use to law enforcement and credit card manufacturers.


SHOOT DOWN SKIMMING

Join OP and spread the word! Hand out this flyer to each of the staff that you photograph, so that they (1) know why we took their picture; and (2) hopefully they, like many others, will join OP and begin to photograph all of the people that handle their credit cards.

http://wearcam.org/wsd.htm or http://glogger.mobi



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Sousveillance:

Surveillance means:- sur (above) + viller (to watch)

Small portable recording devices have given us the growing phenomenon of Sousveillance: French "sous" (from below)= "sousveillance" = To Watch from Below.

When you join O.P., you're probably in a store, restaurant, gas station, etc., that's under surveillance. With Sousveillance, the "watching" goes both ways. One minute you yourself might be a staff member being photographed, but when you go on break to buy your lunch you become customer and take a shot at reducing crime yourself. You no longer are only watched, you can do the watching too!

December 24th --- the biggest shopping day of the year --- is World Sousveillance Day (WSD).








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What we need is more privacy and less secrecy




(Glogged-in, from Dr. Stefanos Pantagis, New York)

(The social movement of sousveillance is catching on in New York)



(more from Stef)

this panasonic has a zoom lens and rotates... 1700 dollars retail...


Maybecamera shirts:

Maybecams at protest:

Just in from Tony, 2004 Mar 5:

(after taking this picture he was threatened)

More from Tony (2004 MAR 10) on the tinpot dictators in some banana republic:

ShootingBlind:


AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, etc., from Stefanos


SECURE BENEATH THE WATCHFUL EYES (London Underground sur-veillance poster)


from Stefanos


Sousveillance Underground from Stef

Just in from Don Saklad: it seems like you're not allowed to take pictures in the Boston Public Library: "Photographs, videotapes, or audiotapes of ... members of the Library staff on duty ... are prohibited."

I was thinking that it would be interesting to do a news story about this prohibition. A news story involves shooting news, as it happens, e.g. shooting the people prohibiting such shooting.

This would be wonderfully self-referrential, e.g. a news story about why people are not allowed to make a news story about why they're not allowed to m...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Flashgun Mob:

Following the successful shot heard around the world at noon, there will be a...

Worldwide Flash Mob, December 24th, at Midnight

Schrodinger's Flashmob, at no place in particular: Flash from somewhere, anywhere, everywhere!

Worldwide Flash Mob: tonight, 2003 December 24th.

Anywhere and everywhere, you can participate by creating a flash of light. Find a Metz Mecablitz, or just use your on-camera flash, and take a picture at 23:59:58, 59, or, depending on the slowness of your shutter, a fraction of a second just before midnight.

Where ever you are, point a camera flash up into the night sky, and LET THERE BE LIGHT at exactly midnight.

"in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light;"
--Lewis H. Redner, 1830-1908


This little light of mine

Earlier tonight (around 5:30pm, 2003 December 24th), I brought my little light to Jason's apartment, so we could let it shine through a little cutout of a cursor, to see how a cursor might look on the OCAD building.

Just after sunset, the sky in the background was "the color of television tuned to a blank channel".


NO
FOOD OR DRINKS
ELECTRONIC DEVICES SUCH AS
PORTABLE COMPUTERS, TELEPHONES
CAMERAS, RADIOS, TAPE OR DISC PLAYERS
OR VIDEO RECORDING EQUIPMENT ARE
ALLOWED INSIDE THE DECONSULATE GENERAL,
MAFFIA GENERAL, OR DICTATOR GENERAL