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Surveillance Camera Performance by rongo rongo

December 9th, 2007 12:52 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: True, this is not an original idea, but we think it's a good one. Your assignment is to perform for a surveillance camera - perhaps a play, or a vaudeville show, or a concert (or at least the appearance of one). Clearly, we'd like you to obtain the footage (in addition to your own documentation of the event), but we encourage you to work with members of EquivalenZ, who have to do this anyway.

If you're not down with ripping off the Not Bored crowd, we understand. So, the alternate form of this task is to surveil someone else's performance - perhaps a concert or (best of all) a movie - and post that footage. We assume that copyright concerns don't matter - it's just surveillance...

I was in a car with some co-workers, heading for a Chinese restaurant when someone asked me about my weekend. Of course this led to an explanation of SF0, which turned out to be excellent groundwork for completing this task, because one of the people in the car knew how to get the data feed from a surveillance camera at the back of our building. He offered to snag a recording for me if I wanted to go dance around in front of the camera that day, but I demurred, preferring to do a little costume prep and planning. I debated for just a minute whether doing this task during work hours when people were more likely to notice someone dancing around the hallway would be a good thing, but decided to go for an off-hours surgical strike instead. (People already think I'm eccentric enough without catching me in the act.) Even though I am wearing my secret ninja UoA costume in order to infiltrate the security of this building, I'm pretty sure that almost anyone at work who ever sees this footage will be able to ID me just by silliness alone.

The video is from the camera on the right side of the hallway. (I added the sound track afterwards just for fun.)

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This is the relevant security camera

This is the relevant security camera

I'm not sure why there are two cameras in this hallway, but I suspect that this one may not be an official security camera. Instead, it might be only for experimental surveillance purposes. (I work for an R&D company.) I think that my performance could fall under experimental purposes.


Floor plan

Floor plan

This is a very safe hallway. It has 2 cameras and 3 sprinklers. I have annotated this picture with my performance plan.


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Soundtrack for the win!
posted by Spidere on December 9th, 2007 1:11 PM

:) Excellent story, and the performance made me smile.

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posted by Blue on December 9th, 2007 1:14 PM

Hmm hm hum hmmm hm hmmmm…

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posted by Magpie on December 9th, 2007 4:18 PM

Wonderful. Lovely choice of colour for the dance of ribbons

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posted by Charlie Fish on December 9th, 2007 4:21 PM

Heh, the soundtrack makes it!

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posted by rongo rongo on December 9th, 2007 6:56 PM

I have to admit the color choice on the ribbons had nothing to do with me---the video does some strange color shifting. The ribbons look like a neat pink here, but in real life they were yellow.

Invasion of the ninja color guard!
posted by Loki on December 10th, 2007 11:36 PM

Nicely done. Props for obtaining the tape, and for doing this in front of a camera in your own workplace. Getting into an argument with a security guard downtown is one thing. Explaining this task to your boss is quite another.