In the rapidly changing world of new media, here’s a interesting twist. If you’re an unsigned band, music videos are expensive to produce. A British band, the Get Out Clause, got creative.

They filmed their video by setting up under a number of the omnipresent video surveillance cameras that are a part of modern life (there are, for instance, a reported 200-plus around Times Square alone), then requisitioned the footage via Freedom of Information requests. Awesome.

And we thought we were clever using the Wyoming Highway Department web cam to scout ski conditions.

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