Comments on: Unsigned British band does surveillance art http://www.nybergh.net/notes/2008/05/12/unsigned-british-band-does-surveillance-art/ ...and notes Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:09:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Thomas Nybergh http://www.nybergh.net/notes/2008/05/12/unsigned-british-band-does-surveillance-art/#comment-149 Thomas Nybergh Fri, 16 May 2008 15:46:47 +0000 http://www.nybergh.net/?p=91#comment-149 Having to scrape together extra material due to cctv operators not carrying out duties assigned to them by law isn't exactly cheating, is it? :P As stated in the article you mention, one would hardly expect journalistic integrity from artists... in fact I don't generally expect anything from something as stupid as music videos based on people miming to songs, which is why I found this particular piece and it's potential statements interesting in the first place. EDIT: I just had a look at my server logs, and it seems that the author of the above comment dropped in here from <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=the+get+out+clause&sa=N&start=70" rel="nofollow">a Google blog search</a>, and unsurpisingly <a href="http://extragrind.blogspot.com/2008/05/horrible-band-shoots-horribly-awesome.html?showComment=1210951320000#c2167343270390092345" rel="nofollow">some</a> of the <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/if_you_insist_on_releasing_boring_music#c1026280" rel="nofollow">other</a> listed <a href="http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2008/05/more-cameras-mo.html#comment-114909470" rel="nofollow">blog entries</a> about this music video have received identical comments. The author appears to be a real person behind a French IP and a user of Firefox on Windows. Someone's got some time to burn it seems. Having to scrape together extra material due to cctv operators not carrying out duties assigned to them by law isn’t exactly cheating, is it? :P

As stated in the article you mention, one would hardly expect journalistic integrity from artists… in fact I don’t generally expect anything from something as stupid as music videos based on people miming to songs, which is why I found this particular piece and it’s potential statements interesting in the first place.

EDIT: I just had a look at my server logs, and it seems that the author of the above comment dropped in here from a Google blog search, and unsurpisingly some of the other listed blog entries about this music video have received identical comments.

The author appears to be a real person behind a French IP and a user of Firefox on Windows. Someone’s got some time to burn it seems.

]]> By: Sophie http://www.nybergh.net/notes/2008/05/12/unsigned-british-band-does-surveillance-art/#comment-148 Sophie Fri, 16 May 2008 15:24:07 +0000 http://www.nybergh.net/?p=91#comment-148 They cheated loads: half of the stuff wasn't even filmed on cctv! See here: http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080516-hoax-cctv-video-get-out-clause-clip They cheated loads: half of the stuff wasn’t even filmed on cctv! See here: http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080516-hoax-cctv-video-get-out-clause-clip

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