Don't 'Look' now: Showtime series shows how we are being watched

[n2doc]

Don’t look now, but there are 40 million surveillance cameras in the United States trained on your every move.

That's just one of the factoids that you will pick up from "Look," an 11-part Showtime series that begins airing this Sunday.

The series is the creation of Hollywood director, writer and actor Adam Rifkin, who exposes the impact of digital media on our always-on-camera lives.

It's a spinoff of the movie of the same name that Rifkin directed three years ago that used surveillance cameras to capture interwoven narratives. The series has taken voyeurism to a new level, using web cams, cellphones and security cameras to follow various characters in Los Angeles as they tweet, stream, text, post on Facebook and upload to YouTube.

"All these things are the way we shoot and explore the series," Rifkin said. "The average American is now captured approximately 300 times a day" in shopping malls, department stores, gas stations, ATMs, bathrooms and dressing rooms.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/10/dont-look-now-showtime-series-shows-how-we-are-being-watched.html

[Newest Reality]

1. That's

roughly one camera for every eight or nine of us.

The Panopticon emerges. The All-seeing Eye? The owner's monitor their cattle and the cattle feel safer? Face and emotion recognition? If we allow it to keep going, it may be eventual, cradle-to-grave surveillance. The technology we love, crave and promote makes it all possible.

Well, if you aren't doing anything wrong ... heheh.

[Blue_Tires]

2. he's a bit late to the party, isn't he??

[HughMoran]

3. Crime is so bad, I have cams as well

Fucking past summer was a version of "Thieves Gone Mad" - surveillance cameras are selling very well - selling out in fact. Just read about another B&E this past week on my street.