Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Most Boring Webcam Ever?

The Hollywood Sign now has its own webcam. Since physical access to the sign is restricted, probably nobody's going to show up on the feed. And since the weather is pretty much constant this time of year in sunny, smoggy Los Angeles, probably not much is going to take place in the little bit of blue area around the sign in the feed. And since they don't really light the sign up at night anymore for fear of terrorist attacks, we're told, I'm guessing about 10 hours a day of this site will just be black.

I'm really hoping that this is a dupe, and that instead of an actual live webcam, the webmaster at www.hollywoodsign.org has simply put up a still picture of the sign, and then at night just puts up a black square. That would be pretty Surreal. Although, there is a lot of Surrealism-merit in putting a live webcam on an inanimate object no one can physically access, and which therefore offers no possibility of anything interesting happening on the webcam feed. Ever.

We're taking comments. What's more Surreal: Live webcam of something inherently boring, or faked live webcam (read: still picture) of something inherently boring?

Vince out.

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