Re: The Kids Are Alright

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Genius! And... terrifying. Looked to me like the cameras aren't even static - there's an astonishingly close-up close up of the lead... Shudder.


Posted by: Moira | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 11:47 AM
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The teabags have a FOIA? I thought the Official Secrets Act gave the Crown the right to detain, imprison, kill, etc. anybody who presumed to ask for information in the UK.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 11:49 AM
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Genius! And... terrifying. Looked to me like the cameras aren't even static - there's an astonishingly close-up close up of the lead... Shudder.


If we had only used cctv and nothing else the video itself would have been very one dimensional with no interesting shots of people's reactions.


Posted by: lemmy caution | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 11:55 AM
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That video is no longer available.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 11:59 AM
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After all, we're artists, not journalists or documentary makers and the most important thing for us was to make a video that looked good.

Keep digging, Tony.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 12:01 PM
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The use of the different colored footage is nicely done.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 12:15 PM
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So interesting! I wonder if the US FOIA allows you to do that. It's been severely constrained under this administration of course, but that's w/r/t classified/re-classified documents. Whatever you say about Bill Clinton (and I could say a lot), he did de-classify a lot during his tenure.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 12:33 PM
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That's a chipper lead: "Many people are uncomfortable with the march of the surveillance state - but a Manchester band has used it to their advantage." See! Surveillance can be fun!

I'm wondering what they asked for exactly: all footage taken at a particular time and place? How advanced is the indexing?


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 12:39 PM
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That video is no longer available.

Firefox + Flash is effectively useless right now. I watch most videos in IE lately.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 1:53 PM
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I disliked the song, mildly disliked the video, and was convinced that I disliked it upon realizing that it was mostly made up. I have a hard time believing that these guys can't even scrape together a few hundred for a little digital video recorder, anyway.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 5:04 PM
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You have to pay for every request you make to receive copies of CCTV footage of yourself. So, it's bollocks.

It can be done [people have done similar projects in the past], but finances would not be the reason.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 5:24 PM
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Everybody, go shooting!

http://shootingliberally.blogspot.com/

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Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 05-21-08 5:25 PM
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That would be the Data Protection Act, not the Freedom of Information Act.


Posted by: dsquared | Link to this comment | 05-22-08 1:22 AM
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Everybody, go shooting!

We did it first.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 05-22-08 1:44 AM
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Yeah, 13 is right. Forgot to point that out.

There have been articles in the press for ages about creative uses to which people have put the Data Protection legislation re: CCTV footage. Also, some articles about the creative ways in which CCTV camera operators avoid complying. One that I remember reading; the response to the request was a frame by frame laser printout on A4 paper with the faces of everyone else in the footage blacked out.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 05-22-08 3:08 AM
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a frame by frame laser printout on A4 paper with the faces of everyone else in the footage blacked out.

That would make a scary flipbook.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 05-22-08 5:52 AM
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