In preparation for September 30th, 2015, when the commercial use of drones is scheduled to go nationwide, artist Rajeev Basu collaborated with some of the world’s most famous designers to bring you Drones of New York. They’re watching you and they’re perty. Like this one with Kyle Platts, spotted over 72nd street: The John Lennon Memorial drone that “permanently circles the block where […]
Well, this is depressing, albeit not surprising. Turns out that when artist Omer Fast and his production crew were working on a drone-related art project and attempted to research said drones, the FBI wasn’t very into it. Not into it at all. In fact, they tracked down the artist’s producer at his home in Los Angeles. Fast […]
This is the fastest drone we’ve ever seen. A YouTuber named quadmovr builds his own DIY drones, and this one in particular is bananas. Not all of the drone enthusiasts commenting on the video are convinced it’s real, and there are arguments whether little extraneous fliers in the background are birds that show the footage […]
Chimpanzees don’t want to be surveilled. A primate in a Dutch zoo saw a drone flying through its habitat and was like “fuck outta here” and took it out with a mighty hit from a big branch. Then it went down to the ground and took an ape selfie. I bet this brilliant chimp leads […]
Now even the FAA has a problem with its regulations on small drones. The AP reports that the government agency is “streamlining rules to expedite permits to fly small, commercial unmanned aircraft” after being barraged with complains over the current process. Here’s how the rules will change: Last year, the FAA began granting permits on […]
For the past year, New York’s famed Explorer’s Club has been advising the Crown Prince of Bhutan on the best use of science and technology in his kingdom’s ongoing search for the mythical biped known as the Yeti, DNAinfo reports. The club, whose illustrious members have included Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary, […]
Officials say that at drones were spotted flying over at least five monuments and government buildings in Paris in what the Associated Press calls “most audacious of several mysterious drone overflights around France in recent months.” The flights are illegal in France. The AP’s description makes the drones seem both ominous and fantastic: The drones […]
The mentality of drones-as-death-machines has changed as unmanned aircrafts have rapidly emerged in the civilian airspace in the form of toys to delivery vehicles. So much so that the FAA recently had to release a set of rules for operating your quadrocopter. Furthering this mindset of drones as helpful machines is a new nonprofit under […]
Somewhere in Cardross, Scotland there’s an abandoned seminary that rivals 5 Pointz as a dream location for graffiti writers. St. Peter’s Seminary, a beautiful brutalist building, has been left to rot in the Scottish countryside for decades. In 2014, the necessary grant money to restore the building was awarded and soon it will undergo renovations. […]
If 2014 felt like it was filled with fear, conflicting information, tension, and general nonsense all heading toward some cataclysmic end to civilization, then BBC documentarian Adam Curtis would like to take a crack at explaining why that might be. Curtis is one of the great underrecognized journalists of our time. He makes sprawling documentaries for […]
