tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007305602804756486.post4338093230972010..comments2024-02-14T20:13:10.431+00:00Comments on OtherAberdeen: Attitudes to Surveillance in Public PlacesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007305602804756486.post-12815805889245214652012-02-07T02:38:00.863+00:002012-02-07T02:38:00.863+00:00I have some serious OtherAberdeen catching up to d...I have some serious OtherAberdeen catching up to do. Love the blog. Bizarre I just wrote a piece about a skater from Bath this morning.<br />"I think this'll be great on YouTube, It'll be awesome." Amazing! Ballard would have loved it.<br />Halfway through watching I wondered if it was a clever, scripted, <i>Blair Witch</i> style piece made by film and tv or communications-in-culture students or something. What does that say about 'reality' and the ubiquity of video recording equipment? I can't watch a <i>single</i> thing without questioning it's authenticity.<br />With regards the question posed my instinct is that she went apeshit because she could, because the camera was not some robotic thing high on a lamp post it was right there, being wielded by a flesh and blood 'assailant'. I also think that lady was reacting to more than just being filmed, whether she was aware of it or not.Predatory Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771746764060131918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007305602804756486.post-69104553936011327222012-02-01T13:45:47.582+00:002012-02-01T13:45:47.582+00:00So what did you do? Did you allow the photo to be ...So what did you do? Did you allow the photo to be taken or not?OtherAberdeenhttp://otheraberdeen.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007305602804756486.post-51307271606331461032012-02-01T13:15:36.606+00:002012-02-01T13:15:36.606+00:00I recently took my one year old neice to a cafe an...I recently took my one year old neice to a cafe and she wandered up to a table of people. They thought she was adorable and one woman took her up onto her knee. All this was fine with me until one person said "take a photo!" and I suddenly felt really awkward and didn't know whether to stop them or not. I didn't suspect anything sinister, but it just didn't seem right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com