Flock Camera Sketchbook Drawing
The short version: Artist Cody Tarantino sketches a Flock ALPR camera, turning an object of quiet surveillance into something the public actually looks at.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Cody Tarantino's sketchbook video takes something most people drive past without a second glance — a Flock Safety camera bolted to a pole — and puts it under a pencil. There's something fitting about that. These cameras are designed to be unremarkable, gray boxes that blend into the streetscape while quietly logging every plate that passes. Drawing one, slowly and deliberately, is its own small act of noticing.
Art has always been a way of forcing attention onto things systems would rather we ignore. A camera sketch isn't a policy brief or a legal challenge, but it's part of the same larger project: making an invisible surveillance network visible again, one frame, post, or drawing at a time. The more ordinary people start recognizing these devices on their own streets, the harder it gets for that infrastructure to stay unquestioned.
If Cody's video has you looking twice at that pole on your corner, don't stop at noticing — check our map to see what's already been documented near you, and if it's not listed, help fill in the picture.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Cody Tarantino, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.