{"id":2051,"date":"2013-03-30T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2013-03-30T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T22:00:31","slug":"as-i-go-for-my-walks-in-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2013\/03\/30\/as-i-go-for-my-walks-in-the-public-domain.html","title":{"rendered":"As I go for my walks in the public domain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI have begun to photograph the wide variety of styles of signage announcing surveillance and recording equipment lurking above. Certainly such a collection of photos is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quantity and quality of hovering electronic eyes will be considered quaintly unintrusive to future generations. Police drones and amateur surveillance equipment will form an information-gathering swarm, scooping up every possible shred of content from the public domain, then indexing, regurgitating, and monetizing said content in ways that will make today&#8217;s Streetview look like a toy.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, I&#8217;ll enjoy checking out the styles of signage announcing that <a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\">you are being recorded, documented, and possibly studied by self-appointed overseers of the public domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo on this page reminds me of Duchamp&#8217;s &#8220;The Fountain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"544\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/62190-2\/SAM_1025_001.jpg?resize=640%2C544\" alt=\"YOU MAY BE MONITORED BY A SILENT WITNESS CAMERA\" TITLE=\"YOU MAY BE MONITORED BY A SILENT WITNESS CAMERA\"><\/a><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\">YOU MAY BE MONITORED BY A SILENT WITNESS CAMERA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/61516-4\/SAM_0607_001.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"SMILE YOU'RE ON TV\"><\/a><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\">SMILE YOU&#8217;RE ON TV<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/61587-4\/SAM_7624_001.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"SMILE YOU'RE ON CAMERA\" TITLE=\"SMILE YOU'RE ON CAMERA\"><\/a><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\">SMILE YOU&#8217;RE ON CAMERA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/61773-2\/SAM_0907_001.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"24 HOURS UNDER-URVAILLIANCE\" TITLE=\"24 hours UNDER-URVAILLIANCE\"><\/a><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\">24 HOURS UNDER-URVAILLIANCE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>More of <a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/You_Are_Being_Recorded\/\">YOU ARE BEING RECORDED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have begun to photograph the wide variety of styles of signage announcing surveillance and recording equipment lurking above. Certainly such a collection of photos is nothing new. Today&#8217;s quantity and quality of hovering electronic eyes will be considered quaintly unintrusive to future generations. Police drones and amateur surveillance equipment will form an information-gathering swarm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-x5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}