[PLUG-TALK] Brilliant Music Video Hack

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Sun May 11 01:04:28 UTC 2008


On Sat, 10 May 2008, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> On Saturday 10 May 2008 12:23:00 Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>> "Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out 
>> Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the 
>> cameras seen all over British streets."
>>
>> "With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, suitable 
>> locations were not hard to come by."
>>
>> "They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations 
>> around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to 
>> the cameras."
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98u1HuqS7Nk
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause%2C-Manchester%27s-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html
>
> Whoops, forgot to quote the good part.  They then used the UK 
> equivalent of the FOIA to request copies of the video footage.  A 
> little editing effort later they had their video.

Great hack. All those English CCTVs are obnoxious. Now if Americans 
could only exploit the obnoxiousness of Dick Cheney for something as 
cool and peace-loving as a music video...

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com


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