The Helix Nebula, SpaceBy odd coincidence, Dr Alan Marcus told us to look for "God" in our work. The next day this image blasted its way onto my screen. Now where's the other eye...?
In the footage I shot for the thirty minute film ABZ, some of which is available in the video section of this site, the idea of 'worshiping' the CCTV camera arose. The populace in this increasingly secular world seem to treat the surveillance culture as a religion; the moral eye that governs our streets is not ++INSERT YOUR DEITY OF CHOICE HERE++ but, in fact, the CCTV camera. Our behaviour is regulated by some anonymous person sitting at a bank of screens who watches all. Instead of respecting religion or an organic thought process, we bow to the 'heartless' technology of the camera. We attune our senses to a piece of machinery that may well have no humanity behind it whatsoever. British culture has gone, in the space of less than a hundred years, from God~fearing to the Eye Of God~fearing.
CCTV as Religion
In the footage I shot for the thirty minute film ABZ, some of which is available in the video section of this site, the idea of 'worshiping' the CCTV camera arose. The populace in this increasingly secular world seem to treat the surveillance culture as a religion; the moral eye that governs our streets is not ++INSERT YOUR DEITY OF CHOICE HERE++ but, in fact, the CCTV camera. Our behaviour is regulated by some anonymous person sitting at a bank of screens who watches all. Instead of respecting religion or an organic thought process, we bow to the 'heartless' technology of the camera. We attune our senses to a piece of machinery that may well have no humanity behind it whatsoever. British culture has gone, in the space of less than a hundred years, from God~fearing to the Eye Of God~fearing.
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I bought it on ebay
What was the postage and packing on that? Must have been a lot....
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