 It's a day like every other day. You're just sitting in a park, or you're walking down the street, or you're having a chat with your friend outside a coffee shop. Then suddenly someone walks up with a camera and begins filming you. What are we doing here? What is your purpose? What are you doing? Oh, taking a video. Oh, it's fine, just taking a video. Why? Why? Why not? Why not? Who are you? What are you doing? Oh my god! Is there a difference between this and all the other surveillance cameras in our lives? Are you a homosexual? Are you a homosexual? Are you a homosexual? Man, what a dumb fuck. This is the work of surveillance cameraman. You don't look like a dumb fuck. An anonymous filmmaker who films people without their permission. Can I help you? Are you serious right now? And without explanation beyond. I'll take a video of you. I'll take a video of you. I'll take a video of you. And without explanation beyond. I'll take a video. For me? You're in it, yeah. Why? Why not? He's been doing it since late 2012, and as of October 2014, there have been eight videos. All of which have now been removed by YouTube. The first video he makes elaborates on his mission. After filming this guy for a little bit, he explains. We got this way. You ever go to the grocery store? There's surveillance cameras everywhere? Yeah. It's not a big deal? It's just a video. The premise of his art, or whatever you want to call it, is simple. You're already being surveilled everywhere you go anyway, so what's the difference? I don't care if it's just a video. I don't want on it. He's right. Cameras are everywhere. Every ATM. Most stores. Street corners. We're starting to put them on police officers. In fact, Barack Obama has just pledged $75 million to make sure that police have cameras. Police also have their own drones. And let's not forget all the cameras on consumer drones. New York City has about 4,000 surveillance cameras. Chicago has about 10,000. Now think about every computer, every smartphone, and every smartwatch. They have cameras. And then, of course, there's Google Glass. A person wearing Google Glass would be getting almost the same identical video as Surveillance Cameraman. But our reactions to the two are different. I have a draft in my own eyes. So you're actually shooting? Yeah, I'm shooting. There's something about Glass that's just more passive than Surveillance Cameraman. But seeing someone actively surveilling us... Fuck you!...with a camera is just, well, offensive. Oh, fuck off, dude! Hey, you son of a bitch, get out of here! Stop photographing me, motherfucker! So is Surveillance Cameraman a more obvious reminder of the hundreds, if not thousands, of other cameras filming us each day? Whether or not these videos are effective in delivering that concept is still for debate. If you peruse the comments sections or the Reddit threads, you'll see some people praise him for the idea and can't get enough, while others say they understand the message, but that he's really just exploiting people and making them feel uncomfortable. And I can see where they're coming from. There's something about the videos that's just a little... Tom Greeny. How much is yours? Get the hell away from me. You got it cheaper for me, though. Let's go. Let's go. What the fuck you are, mister? You calm down. But he's capturing people in a rare state, one I rarely ever see. Pure, raw, unfiltered emotion. And an intense rage, seemingly emanating from some primitive part of the human brain. Fuck you, motherfucker! I swear to God, you get that camera out of my motherfucking face. I swear to fucking God. Hey, calm down. The people in Surveillance Cameraman's videos are for the most part mad as hell. As they should be. It's an invasion of privacy. It feels eerie and wrong. You hear me? It will be long before videos exactly like this will be taken of you by you. There are actually a few restaurants in San Francisco that have outright banned Google Glass for concerns about being videotaped. But for now, it's still a novelty. And I guess if there's one thing that you can glean from Surveillance Cameraman, it's that we need to take regulation extremely seriously. These cameras are creeping into our lives. And if we get complacent, we won't realize that somebody needs to say, Excuse me, no! Carol, get security. Get out of my face while I suck you! Get away from me with the camera. And instead, we'll just say, I've never had somebody take that much interest in me before.