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I’m not entirely sure what to say about this at the Banco di Sardegna near Corso Sempione, but I walk by it every night and it seems like the most peculiar deterrence to me: positioned inside the entryway to the bank, behind the barred gate that’s pulled down every night. Just inside is a video monitor. On it, more or less continuously (also during the day), an image of one or two security guards watching a video screen plays.<\/p>\n
Images for your bemusement\/befuddlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not entirely sure what to say about this at the Banco di Sardegna near Corso Sempione, but I walk by it every night and it seems like the most peculiar deterrence to me: positioned inside the entryway to the bank, behind the barred gate that’s pulled down every night. Just inside is a video … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/premesso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_04711-300x225.jpg\")
What they’re watching is you as you approach the bank, and this is shown to you. If you stick your hand through the bars (as I did to take a picture), an automated voice\u00a0warns\u00a0you (as if you didn’t already know) that the bank is under surveillance. I half expected the guards to come chasing me out of the bank and onto the street, as might happen in Belgrade or Washington<\/a>, but no. \u00a0I fully expected to see myself on the screen, much like when Laura Palmer opens her bedroom door in\u00a0Fire Walk with Me<\/em> and sees herself entering a painting on her wall.<\/p>\n