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Posts from December 2010

1 year ago

The Flip UltraHD vs the Sony Bloggie MHS-TS20

Ever since my Canon TX 1 began acting up after it was knocked from my hands by a Miami-Dade Metrorail security guard, I've been in the market for a new pocket-size high definition video-camera. Especially now that they've become so affordable. I paid $500 for the TX 1 in 2007 when it was first introduced. Today, you can buy a pocket-size high-definition video camera for $100. This, my friends, is [...]

1 year ago

JetBlue Escorts NY Daily News Photog out of Terminal

JetBlue is no fan of photography. They made that clear in 2008 when they had a woman handcuffed and escorted off the plane for refusing to delete a video she shot of an altercation between two passengers. They made that clear again this month when they permanently banned an activist who videotaped himself stripping down to his Speedos before entering the TSA checkpoint. And on Sunday, three [...]

1 year ago

Google Engineer Bails Out Teen Incarcerated for Videotaping Cop

After seven months of languishing in a Los Angeles jail for videotaping a police officer, 18-year-old Jeremy Marks will be home for Christmas. And he has the internet to thank for that. Marks' story was first told in the Los Angeles Weekly. Then it was picked up by varios other sites, including Photography is Not a Crime. It was on Reddit where Google engineer Neil Fraser came across it. Of all [...]

1 year ago

Airline Pilot Disciplined After Posting Video of Security Flaws

The Transportation Security Administration did not like a series of Youtube videos posted by an airline pilot, which highlighted the ineptness of its security procedures. So they dispatched a team of federal and local agents to his Northern California home to intimidate him. The feds ended up seizing his firearm - which he had been allowed to carry into the cockpit. And the local sheriff's [...]

1 year ago

Los Angeles Teen Incarcerated Seven Months for Videotaping Cop

It’s been more than seven months since 18-year-old Jeremy Marks has been incarcerated in a Los Angeles jail for videotaping a police officer. Seven months since they charged him with obstructing an officer, resisting arrest, criminal threats and “attempted lynching.” Seven months since they told him he could serve seven years in prison for his “crime.” Now [...]

1 year ago

How Does My Brand New Flip Camera Compare to Your Compact Video Camera?

Ever since my Canon TX 1 was knocked from my hand by an overly aggressive security on the Miami-Dade Metrorail, it's never been the same. It tends to stop recording within a minute of me shooting video, forcing me to press the record button again, where it takes several long seconds to begin recording again. And once it gets into that pattern, it just continues turning off within a minute of [...]

1 year ago

Michigan Cop Attempts to Intimidate Citizen Videographer on Side of Road

A man was parked on the side of a road in Michigan videotaping city public works employees was approached by a Lincoln Park police officer and harassed. “Turn that off for me,” the officer tells the guy about his camera. “I’m not going to turn it off," the man responds.  “Yes, you are.” “I’m sorry, I’m not.” The officer then orders [...]

1 year ago

NYPD Handcuffs Magazine Editor for Photographing Trains

The editor of a popular railfan magazine was detained, handcuffed, frisked and cited by New York City police officers for photographing trains four months ago – but the incident is just coming to light now. Apparently, Railfan & Railroad Magazine editor Steve Barry was acting under the advice of lawyers by waiting this long to publish an account of the incident, which took place on [...]

1 year ago

TSA Speedo Stripper Strikes Again

A college student named Jon who has been entering Transportation Security Administration checkpoints stripped down to nothing but Speedos was permanently banned from Jetblue when he attempted to do the same in JFK International Airport in New York City. On Wednesday (or Monday depending which date in the video you believe), the student stripped down and was immediately told to put his clothes back [...]

1 year ago

Raid on Atlanta Gay Bar Leads to Policy Changes on Photographing Police

In a brazen display of Constitutional ignorance, Atlanta police officers stormed into a gay bar last year without a search warrant and forced about 80 people down at gunpoint, confiscating their cell phones to prevent photographs as they frisked everybody in the bar. Police claimed they were attempting to crack down on public sex acts and indecent exposure inside the Atlanta Eagle bar, but after [...]

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