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Well this journalist can tell you how. Hasan Elahi broadcasts his life by making a picture photo album of each action he takes. His life is filled with traveling so he has created a portfolio of all the airports, bathrooms, and plane food he has ever eaten. Each photo is timestamped allowing anyone to explore his life one step at a time. Why would Hasan do this? Well during one security check at an airport, Hasan was detained by the FBI. To Make a LONG story short, Hasan had been suspected of terrorist actions. Why? His previous landlord suspected that he had stored munitions in the storage locker of his apartment. Of course, Hasan had no such materials in his locker. But this experience led him to attach a gps bracelet to his ankle to let the FBI know exactly where he was at any point in time. But Hasan did not stop there. A few days after the confrontation with the FBI he called them to make sure they knew where he was. His latest idea is to attach a video camera to his body to stream his life over the internet. So the next time you go to Figi, give the FBI a call. There like enterprise, the'll pick you up.
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4 responses // Want to Broadcast your life?

  • http://youtube.com/user/justinlanning
    Up and coming artist
    Justin Lanning is one of YouTube's hottest up and coming artists who documents most of his musical career and life on film and has gotten so popular he now has his own Billboard on Santa Monica Blvd in Los Angeles, CA.
    woodywoodbeck
  • Thanks for sending me this link, Spencer. I feel like I heard about Hasan Elahi's project a couple years ago, but it was amazing to hear him talk about it. From the first interrogation--which he was inadvertently prepared for, thanks to his 'geeky gadgetry' and longstanding fascination with information technologies--to his cutting out the 'middleman' and making his entire life and travel-log public knowledge, this whole story is incredible.

    His final point--about privacy being valuable because such information is sensitive and restricted, and about "devaluing" his personal life's details by "flooding the marketplace with information--was especially thoughtful and fascinating.

    Superficially, one could interpret this globetrotting artist's project as a smartass response to an isolated case of 'national security' gone wrong. But in the years that he's worked on this project it has become, horrifically, more and more relevant. It's a statement about the issues of privacy in this nation, about rights being stripped away, even about information saturation, and about those 'dead zones' that inevitably appear when someone dares to find a way to go off the grid. To know so much about technology and hack it into an ongoing art installation that is personally, interpersonally, politically, nationally, and internationally so relevant: that's high art.
    jennatar
  • interesting. would be more powerful if he had people take him in the picture. pictures of food don't exactly get the point across. What I like most is the idea about the devaluation of currency. If everyone is actually involved in surveillance and unafraid of surveying themselves, then it becomes that much harder to find useful/incriminating images. But then, this would assume that people are willing to document their lives. I wonder how expansive this concept could become.
    dlesliegunner
  • http://www.trackingtransience.com/
    Hasan's tracking site
    interesting.

    Great find Suspense!
    Kazaam

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