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NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway
The Traffic Cam Photobooth website from artist Morry Kolman lets you snap a pic as you pass a public camera. New York officials responded with a cease-and-desist, but Kolman is undeterred.
Its Office of Legal Affairs recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Morry Kolman, the artist behind the project, charging that the TCP "encourages pedestrians to violate NYC traffic rules and engage in dangerous behavior." Kolman’s previous internet shenanigans include a “low-carbon NFT” parody, “smuggling” a 70-minute feature film onto TikTok by manipulating the video’s metadata and creating a website based on the AmITheAsshole subreddit, a popular crowdsourced advice forum. He commissioned Shepard Fairey to create the Obama Hope poster for the 2008 presidential campaign, which went viral and was praised by New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl as “the most efficacious American political illustration since ‘Uncle Sam Wants You.’”
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