Evil. Government surveillance increases by the minute, but visual journalists, artists, documentarians and citizens lose the right to document the world they live in unless they can a) afford it and b) formalize and plan everything (in order to apply to shoot at some specific time and place and purchase insurance) to the point that spontaneous life cannot be recorded researched, visually commented upon and on and on. The NYC laws on this are ALREADY horrible - this would be a nightmare.
To say nothing of the carte blanch police would have regarding anyone documenting a protest, let alone an arrest during everyday life. So very very wrong and dangerous. And as for street photography, its the outlawing of Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment". Brook _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com <<vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv ________________________________________________________ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
