All-seeing CCTV tee
Liam sez, "DesignByHumans.com is a t-shirt design contest in the similar style of Threadless.com. They are in the midst of a $10k contest and this shirt won 3rd place. Not only is the design aesthetically stunning, it also is very poignant as it puts a 'face' to the idea of Big Brother." PPP (perversion of paranoid populace) (Thanks, Liam!)
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This is the best way to design a shirt. I love having the best rise to the top. I wish they did this for everything.
Cory please stop posting new T-Shirts!!!
In the last few months I'm spending way too much money on super kakkoi T-shirts posted on BoingBoing!!!
Awesome shirt.
Wait, why does a $25 have shipping charges? Holy crap. That's an expensive shirt.
1984 Again ;)
All I can say is, WOW. What a shirt. And it's hella poignant too. Gonna buy one for the wife!
P.S. Fuck the RIAA!
Oh my gosh, this shirt so reminds me of LITTLE BROTHER, a great Award Winning YA novel written by Cory Doctorow. There, I’ve helped promote the book. Can I have a free T-shirt now?
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firstly, the design would have been better without the anthropomorphic camera...
secondly, i am baffled by the obsession with the cctv's on this site. i just think that it is one of the most insignificant things you can be passionate about. let's look at how many posts there are about genocide in darfur and compare...obviously, cctv is more worthy of my attention.
i told my friends they could just s*** anything out and if it had a cctv involved, it would be posted on boingboing.
it's just not a big deal! i'd just have to be told why everyone cares so much because i just don't. they are not in my home and just because they're at a shopping mall doesn't mean they are any closer to being in my home; that is such a bunk argument. i mean, how dare someone who owns a business put up a camera to make sure that their merchandise or property is protected. how ridiculous that a security camera should identify an actual criminal! buuuuuuuull shit.
Holding Rabbits, CCTV is just a good and handy metaphor for government surveillance; a better graphic idea to illustrate a point than a rack of servers performing analysis of internet traffic.
I like the CCTV guy in the image, but agree, a version with only the bank of screens would make a great t-shirt.
Holding Rabbits, I happen to enjoy knowing there are more CCTVs out there. This way I can treat the London streets as my stage. Everybody wants to be a star! More close ups! Look at me goddamnit!
Seriously, Oversite is probably not going to go away. As observation of the public becomes a more important data resource companies like Google may out pace any and all governments. Just wait until the cams are the size of little birds and bats and then bugs.
i would have preferred the shirt with just a bank of screens as well, since we all know Hermano Grande probably looks more like Dr. Claw.
I remember reading YEARS ago, (before Reality shows and I think even before Cable TV existed), in Heavy Metal magazine of all places, a graphic/comic story about the future wherein there were 20 channels on TV.
Each channel was fed by a live-feed from a different private person with a News Van. These "reporters" would patrol the city in search of juicy crimes taking place in real-time.
Back at TV mission control, there was a guy (kind of like William Baldwin watching Sharon Stone in "Sliver") who decided which feeds were the juiciest at any given time and would put them on air live for the viewing public.
"Reporters" only got paid for the duration that their feed was on the air, so they started staging heinous crimes themselves just so they could tape it.
I think of that sometimes.
The shirt is too earnest. Some of those images need to be of jaywalking and parking-garage boner-relief.
#7, CCTV in public places is one step closer to a police state. This is more prevalent in UK, where Cory lives: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6108496.stm
1 CCTV camera for every 14 people, as of 2006.
Facial recognition software improvements mean automated tracking of citizens going about their lawful business.
Being under constant surveillance by my government would make me uncomfortable. You?
as far as police states are concerned, i think there are many other steps that bring us closer to a police state (which boingboing does cover) such as corrupt politicians who are accountable to no one and things like the suspension of habeas corpus due to a war on an idea.
of course i worry about things like facial recognition and the ways they are now able to track someone (bound to be abused)...but i think that the law can also be manipulated and abused, but i am all in favor of having it as opposed to anarchy.
many places of business also have multiple cctv's which would account for the 1:14 ratio. a little truck stop cafe i went to had 6 inside. obviously these were to deter people from robbing the place (i came to find out that they did not actually work, but were only there to deter). i think that if and when it is abused, then it will be dangerous, but i think that for a society to be somewhat orderly, people do need to be a little afraid of the consequences of their actions. i am totally not a republican. i just think this issue is a little bigger than cctv's...it's just a bit more complicated than abolishing security cameras.
I actually rather like the image and I would probably buy it if I could, you know, tuck it in.