After spending some time following the build up to this weekends protests, specifically in birmingham, I found a group of people discussing using existing city webcams to get around the main stream media censorship of the protests. Apparently Brum is the most webcam covered city in the uk but after scouring google maps for webcams i then turned my attention to London and came across this blog.
http://bincam.blogspot.com/
The blog contains a live video feed of a bin in west hampstead, and was created by a man who lives in a flat overlooking the bin. He claims it is the worst kept bin in london on account of how rarely it is emptied, the councils regulations on clearing the bin the irresponsibility of the people using it to dispose of their waste. He has set up the webcam as a tool to make a point of the issue both to the council and the community aswell as shaming those who use the spot for fly tipping.
The blog also contains posts which document past incidents and act as an archive of bin related events since the camera was installed. The videos contained in these posts are uploaded at full frame rate as oppose to the live feed which only updates once every minute and are accompanied by the bloggers thoughts on the incident. Most archive posts refer to incidents of people abusing and misusing the bin/space around it although there are also quite a lot of posts just showing unusual events caught on camera that have nothing to do with the bin other than they take place next to it.
I think this webcam could be a useful tool for this project if i can think of a way to utilize it for my own needs. The main advantages being it is located just a few tube stops from where I live and the sheer amount of attention the blogger gives to even the smallest incident means it would not be hard to feature myself/my work in his blog.
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