DC Protest Timelapse
Thu 20 Mar 2008 11:59:53
Yesterday, fifth anniversary of the Iraq occupation, was supposed to be a big protest day, though Metro didn't feel like it. Nothing much showed up on traffic cameras around DC, except for one at McPherson Square, where people seemed to be confronting a police line while a paper-machie bomb with a Strangelove-style Bush effigy atop it looked on. I used a small wget-like script to fetch images on a two second refresh, and got this time lapse.
By late afternoon it had started raining, and the protesters were gone. Photos on DCist.
Why does the camera keep moving around, spending so much time on non-traffic areas? Is this one of the Web-controllable cameras?
From the way it moves and what it focuses on I think the camera is manually controlled, probably by someone at MPD.
Needs more 'splosions!