Hope you like the new site!
We’ve made major headway into the project over the last few months. We’re hoping to have a working prototype by
the middle of next month. Just in time for some big journalism conferences! Stay tuned for updates, we’ve got a lot coming!
-EyeBorg Team!
http://watch.spacecast.com/the-circuit/current/january-2009/#clip128282
Here is a link to a video report on a show called the Circuit on Space TV.
Space TV is my favorite nerd channel where I watch a lot of my Star Trek.
(Pleased nerd noises).
I found this old shot of me in University where I look a lot like Orwell. Strange!
Take a look at this essay about Big Brother versus Little Brother from security guru Bruce Schneier.
Big Brother isn’t what he used to be. George Orwell extrapolated his totalitarian state from the 1940s. Today’s information society looks nothing like Orwell’s world, and watching and intimidating a population today isn’t anything like what Winston Smith experienced.
1984’s police state was centralized; today’s is decentralized. Your phone company knows who you talk to, your credit card company knows where you shop and NetFlix knows what you watch. Your ISP can read your email, your cell phone can track your movements and your supermarket can monitor your purchasing patterns. There’s no single government entity bringing this together, but there doesn’t have to be. As Neal Stephenson said, the threat is no longer Big Brother, but instead thousands of Little Brothers.
The fear isn’t an Orwellian government deliberately creating the ultimate totalitarian state… It’s that we’re doing it ourselves, as a natural byproduct of the information society.
Rest of essay here. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/05/is_big_brother_1.html
http://www.indy.com/posts/marine-tank-commander-eyes-future-after-service-in-iraq
This guy is one hundred per cent Marine.
And here is the Canadian Press video of me getting a two part prosthetic popped in. There is enough room in there for the little camera that Omnivision sent us.
Not far off now!
Story here.
Toronto filmmaker plans to use prosthetic eye camera for documentary
Big Brother is watching — and so is Little Brother.
Toronto filmmaker Rob Spence says he is getting a tiny video camera put inside a prosthetic eye to allow him to secretly film his subjects.
Spence says his goal is twofold: to raise awareness of constant surveillance in society and to get people talking unself-consciously.
This is so ironic its tiresome almost. I guess that’s one of the problems I have selling the idea for this documentary. Even my reaction is a bit ho-hum, for God’s sakes we have heard it all before. Yes, yes, we are turning into a Big Brother society. But, like, we are.
Story is here.
In case you aren’t familiar with my other posts one of the main points of my film, Eye 4 an Eye (previous post about that here) is to examine how we are sleepwalking into an over-monitored Orwellian society. Am I a part of the problem or part of the solution if I get a camera-eye? Perhaps if I get you thinking about it more its the latter.
This fresh in my from my Cuz (Cuz=cousin) – who is now the official tune supplier for eyeborg.blogspot.com. He will supply appropriately eye-ish/cyborg-y songs that are good listening. Hey, trust me, Cuz knows his tunes. His eye-dentity I am afraid must remain secret for now.
So anyways, this just in from Cuz….
Cuz: “I’m deeming this the best track of the year. It is a long one, but soooo addictive, and no they are not from Montreal…..here’s an almost full version.”
