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TCPB Part 1: The Creative Technology Ideation Process

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Back in August, I made the site TrafficCamPhotobooth.com for fun, and it ended up blowing up. Traffic Cam Photobooth lets people take selfies with traffic cameras, and has so far had hundreds of thousands of users, received international press coverage, and received at least one Cease and Desist. It seems like a simple site, and it is, but it’s also the product of a pretty winding process. Being that it's now nominated for a Webby (vote for me here!), I wanted to give it some proper documentation. This is Part 1 of a multi-part series of posts that will go up regularly from now until the end of the voting period on April 17th, please follow along! Two years ago I was hunting through assorted Open Data NYC pages and found out that, while not well-documented, the NYC Department of Transportation hosted regularly updating, publicly available image feeds of their traffic cameras. Surveillance sucks, and sure, this is about surveilling cars but (a) it still catches people in its gaze and (b

TCPB Part 1: The Creative Technology Ideation Process --> The Making of Traffic Cam Photobooth Part 1: The Creative Technology Ideation Process Back in August, I made the site TrafficCamPhotobooth.com for fun, and it ended up blowing up. Traffic Cam Photobooth lets people take selfies with traffic cameras, and has so far had hundreds of thousands of users, received international press coverage, and received at least one Cease and Desist. It seems like a simple site, and it is, but it’s also the product of a pretty winding process. Being that it's now nominated for a Webby ( vote for me here! )

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