Here’s one taken when I wasn’t aware the camera was snapping away. So it’s a non-posing pose. Except of course, I never really stop posing.
And why shouldn’t I? Britain has 4.2 million CCTV cameras, more than in the rest of Europe put together. Everyone’s on camera. So the least one can do is make an effort to be worth looking at.
Holloway Road, close to where I live, was recently declared the most CCTV-covered street in Britain. I like to think this is due to the fabulous dress sense of the average pedestrian there, rather than the high incidence of unkindness. If not, then it should be.
So it’s this Canute-like attitude which I recognise in my expression below. It’s how I like to think I really am, or should be more often. Strange but essentially harmless. Wanting the best for all. Blowing kisses at the drug dealers. Flirting with squirrels.
