Build your own private spy agency. Travel around the world, trade with state secrets, weapon systems, spy codes, WMD, hire secretaries, agents, lawyers, helicopters and soldiers, establish agency stations and search for politicians. Game contains more than 30 missions including CIA Unlimited, Gen. Noriega, USAF, Colonel Gaddafi ,BND, Prime Minister, RAF, Cold War, Bin Laden, Sadam, KGB, Law Firm... (more)
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Art Watches Back...
City officials in Chicago placed surveillance cameras on top of giant twin towers designed by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa using funds from the US Department of Homeland Security.
Paul Gray, co-owner and director of Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago which represents Plensa in the US, said the city “did not get permission from the artist” to use his towers in this way.
“When we learned about the concerns of Chicago’s art lovers, we took them down immediately,” says Kevin Smith, a spokesman for the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications. (more) "...and, we really don't care for the long security lines at O'Hare either."
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Watch Art, Watch Spies...
"The Good Shepherd,” a chilly film about a spy trapped in the cold of his own heart, seeks to put a tragic human face on the Central Intelligence Agency, namely that of Matt Damon. The story more or less begins and ends at the Bay of Pigs. (more)
The Oscar-nominated director of "The Lives of Others" says his next movie won't be about secret surveillance -- he wants to do "lots of other stuff." (more)
Deja Vu, the recent Denzel Washington film about an ATF agent, is not a particularly interesting film in its own right but gains significance when we locate it in the evolution of the surveillance film. This venerable tradition includes Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954), Antonioni’s Blowup (1966), Coppola’s The Conversation (1974), Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State (1998), Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002), Michael Haneke’s Caché (2005), and Scorsese’s latest offering, The Departed (2006). (more - an excellent read)
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“The more technology you use,the easier it for them to keep tabs on you.”
~Edward 'Brill' Lyle
