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Steve looking up at buildings

"Seeing yourself eat from the perspective of your date at dinner is a really interesting experience … now, all of a sudden, I can see how horrible my eating habits are."


Steve in NYC

"He was always peppering us with questions. 'How high is up?' 'What makes oranges round?' 'How far do telephone poles go into the ground?'" - Steve's father.

Steve Mann in NYC

"Eyetap camera is sort of like the Colt 45. It's the great equalizer. It allows everybody to be packing heat."


Steve Mann setting up equipment

"When the telephone repairman came around, he'd give me scraps of wire that I'd use for different things I was trying to build. I knew then, before I even started school, that I wanted to be a telephone repairman."

Cyberman poster

"I've got a web server on my body. The I.P. address of my body is 128.100. 10.122."


Producer Michael Allder and director Peter Lynch

"He won't use tape, he'll just use Internet media" - Steve's answer to WALMART security's request to stop videotaping people in the store.


Steve and his large lamp

"Essentially society tells us that the activist has 3 choices: take no action; take legal action; or take illegal action. Therefore if you're active, you must be one of either a lawyer or a criminal."


Example of "dusting" photography in NYC - by Steve Mann

Steve says his dusting technique produces "a composite unlike any of the individual images -- and often exceeding in dynamic range and resolution, as well as drama, any possible single photograph taken with the same equipment."

 

Steve over the last 20 years

"Twenty years ago people used to say I was crazy. Now when someone questions this invention, I don't worry bout it, I don't let it bother me."