[Music] Hi, I'm Adam Harvey. I'm an artist in New York, and I'm working with surveillance, fashion, privacy, and what that means in today's context. It bothers me a lot to know that when I do those average day-to-day things, that somebody could be watching me, and that that is really a frustrating feeling to know that you always have a caper on or somebody monitoring what you do. The anti-paparazzi clutch is a project I started in 2009, and it's a device that goes inside of a purse. When a paparazzi photographer takes your photo, it flashes back with enough light so that it overexposes the photo. Technically, it has a device, a sensor, which looks for a flash coming from a camera, and as soon as that happens, it triggers a bank of LEDs. What's unique about that is that there's no recycle time, like some flashes have that, so this can fire as often as you needed to, and the time it takes for the light

to be triggered is short enough that it'll hit the photographer's sensor and overexpose their photo.

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