Attend South Africa’s OppiKoppi music fest this summer will be greeted by perhaps history’s friendliest UAVs: a fleet of drones that will drop beers by parachute to anyone who orders them. In the video below, the flying booze bots are operated by remote control, but festival organizers eventually hope to make them fully automatic, with […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Addie Wagenknecht explains her project PUSSYDRONES. Since around 2006, I have been heavily working within a sort of purely utilitarian open source space with projects like Lasersaur and Artifact of Code. In this very personal way, which I suppose might look nonsensical and […]
Someone hung a banner critical of drones atop the AJ Muste Memorial Institute building in NoHo. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze) […]
Somewhere in Louisiana, there’s a home-made drone whirling through the sky towards an unsuspecting pig. Engineers/farmers Cy Brown and James Palmer call it the “Dehogiflier.” When the R/C airplane + thermal imaging camera COMBO OF DEATH spots the pig, it’s only a matter of time before a quick shot from a rifle with a night vision scope takes oinky […]
As the media profile of and sense of inevitability surrounding domestic drone use continues to grow, many states are weighing legislation that would oversee and regulate their use. As the ACLU points out in a blog post, anti-drone bills have been introduced in at least 30 state legislatures, including the New York State Assembly. A bill introduced […]
For the last installment in his drone art series, Rajeev Basu gives us SLAPADRONE, a series of whimsical bumper stickers to stick on the back of the old family UAV. The series–which includes Drones of New York and the customizable Mr. Drones projects as well) lampoons and raises awareness that commercial drone use becomes legal in the U.S. in 2015. Basu calls SLAPADRONE the “darkest” […]
We already knew that the U.S. Office of Naval Research has been hard at work building laser guns. Now, it’s come to light that the office would like to begin equipping Marine humvees with the futuristic weapons, in hopes of keeping them better protected from drones. They’re offering a contract worth up to $400,000 for […]
It’s not unusual to see religious leaders railing against the policies of a Democratic president, but this time, it’s a sentiment plenty of liberals can get on board with as well. “From a New Testament point of view, drones are completely appalling,” retired Episcopal rector Paul F. M. Zahl told CNN in a recent interview. “The […]
Mike Bloomberg, NYC’s billionaire mayor who’s more concerned about big soda than big brother, gets lambasted via a very timely stenciled image in Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Created by the developers Pitch Interactive, this animated infographic plots every U.S. drone strike and all associated casualties. In just a few seconds, a flurry of strikes and deaths appear, beginning in 2004 and drastically upticking in 2008-2009, when Pervez Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan and President Obama took office in the states. All […]
