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July 10, 2015 5:36 AM

Exhausting a Crowd is an interactive video you can annotate yourself, using footage from a London street. It was commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of their All of This Belongs to You exhibition.
posted by like_neon (13 comments total)

[This is good]
posted by EndsOfInvention at 5:53 AM on July 10, 2015

Secretly satisfied that people are tagging the cars that stop in the box junction. Hmm, is this a way to stealth-crowd-source traffic wardening?
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:04 AM on July 10, 2015

Why is the link not to the site itself but instead to a page belong to some random "EXPERT SEO CONSULTANT BASED IN LONDON"?
posted by cincinnatus c at 6:10 AM on July 10, 2015

This is more fun than it should be.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 6:17 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

Cincinnatus, I seem to have copy/pasted the wrong link for the first one. Have contacted a mod to fix. It should be this direct link.
posted by like_neon at 6:18 AM on July 10, 2015

Mod note: Link fixed, carry on.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 6:23 AM on July 10, 2015

I can't figure out how to make my captions track the subject though. Some are bouncing around all over the place..
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 6:24 AM on July 10, 2015

Oh there's loads of them! I assumed everyone was commenting on the 2AM piccadilly circus.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 6:34 AM on July 10, 2015

Just this guy - click and drag your mouse (vs. just click) and your annotation will follow the path you made with the mouse.
posted by like_neon at 6:36 AM on July 10, 2015

Oh.. before the comment screen. It seems so obvious now!
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 6:40 AM on July 10, 2015

I am quite sad there is a character limit as I'm trying to make this man tell a bar joke.
posted by numaner at 6:44 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]

Ha, someone referred to a London taxi (2007 model) as a "cool old style car".
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:46 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]

I was once hosting a colleague from Sri Lanka on his first visit to London. He'd watched the Da Vinci Code just before he'd arrived, but told me at the time he hadn't really been able to get into it because of them using "old cars" as taxis throughout the film.
posted by Helga-woo at 12:55 PM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]