Comments on: New Aesthetic eruption

By: strangefriend

strangefriend — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Seeing the camera reminds me of the scene late in the comic V For Vendetta were the little girl sees the now-shut off CCTV camera & starts joyfully shouting ‘Bollocks’ to this & that.

By: Tino

Tino — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Somebody needs to spray a V on that.

By: fight4paece

fight4paece — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:00 +0000

That reminds me of the display screens in the elevators of Mirrors Edge. How scary is it that the very thing they use to create an atmosphere of government oppression is here in our reality. Also, imagine how much money is being spent for this oppressive system. They are moving in this direction in USA as well and I never hear any of the repuglycons complain about that spending. It seems government spending is only a problem for them when it is not spent on programs that shuffle all of the money into there corprorate cronies pockets for BS like this or spy stations at your ISP. Is it time for a real life cyberpunk like culture to combat this crap? And, where do I sign up!?

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:48:00 +0000

Have you read the history of your Empire? That behavior is not limitied to Brick Lane.

By: Martijn Vos

Martijn Vos — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:54:00 +0000

It certainly deserves to be hacked. But I’d rather show something else. How about messages about essential freedom during the Olypmics or something?

By: FelixDio

FelixDio — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:31:00 +0000

“Oik”? Did I just hear that right? Damn Oxbridge types.

Brick Lane has always, historically, been a thieves hangout. So I’m really rather glad it’s not been gentrified.

But more importantly, I think I need to start my own line of beers and liquors, all under the brand name of “Responsibly” — ad budget, who needs a stinkin’ ad budget?

By: Mantissa128

Mantissa128 — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:46:00 +0000

Welcome to City 17. It's safer here.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000

That’s brilliant! You win the thread!

There was that study a while back that said a picture of staring eyes made you more honest. Maybe they should just do that, except the eyes would move.

By: alexb

alexb — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:35:00 +0000

Brick Lane is literally a den of thieves though. You can go for a curry on a Friday night and have your bike stolen within minutes of locking it up and then go to the market the next day and have some scary oik try to sell it back to you.

By: rocobo9

rocobo9 — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:12:00 +0000

impossible. there’s a surveillance camera. they’ve thought of everything!

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:50:00 +0000

Are you telling me that this assortment of street furniture DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GOD(s)?! Oh, the human ET!

By: Craig Cook

Craig Cook — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:44:00 +0000

It seems Mr. (Eric) Blair a.k.a. George Orwell was just 28 years too early in his predictions. Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength #newspeech. This is *right* out of 1984.

By: Andy Murdock

Andy Murdock — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

By: Justin Forposting

Justin Forposting — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:48:00 +0000

It’s to help them get a nice clear view of your face. When they finally learn that PSAs won’t get people to look, they will start to use tiny random flashes of porn to keep people staring at the screen.

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:13:00 +0000

So it goes…

By: Ian Anthony

Ian Anthony — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:58:00 +0000

inb4 “Atheism is just another religion.”

By: Jay Stephens

Jay Stephens — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:48:00 +0000

I lived on Hanbury Street, about 60 yards from the Shampan, for years… Me & GF bought a little apartment there in ’99… was a Borough of Gibsonesque Bigendity then, and is doubtless even more so now. What this particular installation actually reminds me of is those old post dadaist crews who used to sneak into workplaces and replace the dispiriting internal signage with signage that was even more dispiriting (e.g. “each employee one slice only please ” >> “each employee one slice only, management 2 slices each”.

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Oy! Who’s for public drinking. As dat signs says, Cheers mates.

Googling BRCX LANE E gave thus :

Brick Lane is a street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today, it is the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown. It is famous for its many curry houses.

Many Curry houses and public drinking? Not a likely combination lest thy unleash thee spaghetti monster pubbles.

By: chupsahey

chupsahey — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:24:00 +0000

I love his show!

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:07:00 +0000

“This is a desiccated public space… PUBLIC DRINKING BOROUGH” *hic*

By: spacemunky

spacemunky — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:57:00 +0000

All hail Oceania!

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:45:00 +0000

So somebody is going to get a couple of free LCD monitors soon. That’s nice.

By: blkhawk

blkhawk — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:22:00 +0000

Added some Dr. Breen to it. That actually makes it seem less dystopian.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:53:00 +0000

How soon until that screen gets smashed with a bottle of beer?

By: Brad Zimmerman

Brad Zimmerman — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:16:00 +0000

I will laugh when someone hacks it to show GOATSE.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:13:00 +0000

A surveillance camera combined with a television screen that constantly broadcasts government messages? Brilliant!