A Los Angeles Neighborhood Disturbance... With Strange Origins?
| Mon Apr. 9, 2007 7:21 AM PDT
A thirty-foot pole with a robotic arm on top sits on a street corner in the town of San Pedro, outside Los Angeles. As pedestrians walk by, a giant eye at the end of the arm tracks them with a stream of light.
People are concerned. Is there a camera involved? Is this the newest form of public surveillance in an era of already-compromised civil liberties? Or is it a simple prank?
Actually, it's a public art piece. And it's name? Mojo.
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