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Majyk
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Documentary Defiance by Majyk

March 11th, 2009 6:43 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Document something you are prohibited from documenting.

This task seemed like a giggle of a way to "stick it to the man" so guess what? i did it! (obviously otherwise i wouldnt be writing this praxis) on a bit of a whime i signed up for this without looking at what other people had done so if anyones done something similar my apologies. but for this task i thought the best way would be to use the local prison, as it has a nice big sign saying "The takings of photographs is strictly prohibited" Perfect!
after trying to have an inconspicuos wonder round looking for good places to take photographs at 12pm on a saturday night i was getting rather paranoid, I had the strange sensation of being some sort of secret agent, thanks to my over active imagination, and was worried that at any second a team of dogs would come running round a corner and the chase would be on with me in the end loosing! Thankfully, this didnt happen i just spent an entire hour hiding at the slightest sound and trying to dodge any CCTV. The pictures arent all amazing as i had to turn of the flash. I figured that if any guards did find me theyd cofescate my camera and considering its not even my camera this wasnt an option! so enjoy the pictures and maybe you'll get the same paranoid feeling as i did of skulking in the dark in a place's I wasn't supposed to be!

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My destination
Lights of the prison behind me
Sign to ward anyone of, except me!
Lights everywhere even on this old dis-used building.
CCTV
More CCTV
Even more CCTV
The long walk
20 ft high?
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Another long walk
Me pushing my luck?
And the perfect sillouette
Old meets new but nothing ever change's
More lights as i slipped of into the shadows again.

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posted by Fiona on March 12th, 2009 4:55 AM

That's funny because that is exactly the first thing I thought of when I read this task, great minds think alike eh? I have another idea now though, but it's a bit dodgy.
And yes, they do confiscate your camera and take all your details and stuff. It happened to my mum once.

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posted by Cookie on March 13th, 2009 11:09 AM

Somewhere in the billions of hours of of british CCTV footage for that night is the image of a masked magic running around a prison with a camera. The thought tickles Cookie and makes him wonder if somewhere is footage of him raiding the cookiestore. How many other things pass unnoticed?

Cookies minion SPPBB remembers standing outside the toilets at Waterloo station and counting nearly 30 CCTV cameras from one spot. Social paranoia or Big Brother for real?