Comments on: Public Bench Camera Play http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/ Education, Interactivity, Play and Emerging Cultural Forms from Andy Polaine. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: dylan Davis http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/#comment-5668 dylan Davis Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:56:01 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/#comment-5668 <p>tying down the camera would deter the casual thief, but would limit the pictures you would get back to a specific location, it was interesting as we got emails describing the pictures the users had taken but in some cases we never saw the photo.</p> tying down the camera would deter the casual thief, but would limit the pictures you would get back to a specific location, it was interesting as we got emails describing the pictures the users had taken but in some cases we never saw the photo.

]]> By: Andy Polaine http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/#comment-5667 Andy Polaine Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:49:35 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/#comment-5667 <p>I really like this kind of thing, like <a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/" rel="nofollow">Book Crossing</a> and <a href="http://www.1000journals.com/" rel="nofollow">100 Journals</a>. It's sad when stuff just gets binned or stolen though. I think it says a lot about the city's personality.</p> <p>Even tying the camera with a piece of string to the bench seemed to deter the casual theft though. If it was in London I expect it would have been 'cleaned' by some municipal busybody or by police in case it was a terrorist threat...</p> I really like this kind of thing, like Book Crossing and 100 Journals. It’s sad when stuff just gets binned or stolen though. I think it says a lot about the city’s personality.

Even tying the camera with a piece of string to the bench seemed to deter the casual theft though. If it was in London I expect it would have been ‘cleaned’ by some municipal busybody or by police in case it was a terrorist threat…

]]> By: dylan Davis http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/#comment-5666 dylan Davis Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:28:13 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/04/12/public-bench-camera-play/#comment-5666 <p>I did a similar project as part of my masters, called the "pic me up" project, we left a series of cameras and instructions in boxes located around melbourne and asked people to pic up the camera, take a picture of something beautiful or significant and pass the camera on, then return it when the camera was done, we got some interesting pictures but did lose a few cameras</p> I did a similar project as part of my masters, called the “pic me up” project, we left a series of cameras and instructions in boxes located around melbourne and asked people to pic up the camera, take a picture of something beautiful or significant and pass the camera on, then return it when the camera was done, we got some interesting pictures but did lose a few cameras

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