watching the watchers

a participatory citizen media project which uses mobile technology to enable public monitoring of authority figures

street photography...

...depicting situations or scenes more than specific objects or people. Association which operates intensely, juxtaposition, contrast, and anecdotes, often exposing the importance of the moment.

'form of public oversight'

sounds of everyday things

What would we learn if we changed the way we looked at our cities? What if, instead of just looking at them, we could listen to them?

offline file-sharing network

Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.

'communication in public space'

educating the public

What is the best STD poster of the past century?

[Social Design Notes]

'easy hacking'

What if?

Project Kleinrock is an attempt to create an autonomous and decentralized "second layer" of the Internet, which can operate without the use of Internet Service Providers. This network can be set up using nothing more than common household wifi routers. It works by creating a web of routers, connected to each other by switching them into repeater mode...

'travel time maps'

a collection of portraits

some simple security tips

a new 'emptypage' weekly

Please feel free to contribute some Contents to this site. I'm just too lazy to come up with something original myself.

unauthorized data sharing

art at 'public sites'

'take-away shows'

public usage of public space

'telling their story'

we're leaving disposable cameras around the world. hopefully, people will pick them up, take a few photos and pass them on, eventually returning home - so we can tell their stories.

intriguing people pics

building signage/typography

Preserve is on going project to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage. Many of these are being erased from our cityscapes either being worn away by weather over time, covered as buildings have been repainted, disappearing as buildings are demolished or replaced with modern signage equivalents...

[surfstation]

'thinking outside the box'

'review and comment'

exploring public data

NYC's Livable Streets movement

revitalizing public spaces

'detourned' ads

middle of the road activism

'crazy' officials

Misplaced fears about terror, privacy and child protection are preventing amateur photographers from enjoying their hobby...

public art program

unusual open space

advertising in public space

The steady normalization of invasive advertising dulls the public’s perception of their surroundings, re-enforcing a general attitude of powerlessness toward creativity and change, thus a cycle develops enabling advertisers to slowly and consistently increase the saturation of advertising with little or no public outcry.

'communication in public spaces'

'crowd powered media'

Lower Manhattan public art

'public intervention'

promotional press release...

'photography in public space'