Big brother meets war chalking

On the sidewalks of Helsinki these little images have started appearing. It took me passing by three of them to realise that they weren't just something a drunken art student did on a Friday night but a deliberate marking to designate that a security camera is present. It's funny that I had never noticed these cameras before the marking, one I originally mistook for an anvil, forced me to see them. In the era of Big Brother rising it would seem to be far more interesting than marking where you can score a free wireless signal. I don't know if there is enough paint in the US to mark all the sidewalks where security cameras are installed but it would be a remarkable US-wide art installation with a Orwellian twist.

19 Apr 2003 at 12:07, Helsinki