Tag: Drones
Artist Rick Silva’s new show, opening at Transfer Gallery tomorrow night, conjoins the digital and the physical in an exploration of the space that neither can reach — the afterlife. Inspired by Tibetan rituals in which the body is left on a mountain top to be eaten by birds of prey, Silva is giving artworks […]
Senator Chuck Schumer, a U.S. Senator and nanny-state advocate who holds lots of press conferences, is calling for swift, federal regulation of flying cameras. “The use of small drones for commercial purposes have reached new heights,” said Schumer. “Some might even say that New York City is the Wild West of drones.” Yeehaw! Although the […]
Dreams of flight are among the most euphoric of human experiences. But no matter how vividly you dream, once you wake up, the memory recedes. Now, we can finally experience realistic flight while fully conscious, thanks to the rapidly improving virtual reality device Oculus Rift and a program called Birdly by Swiss artist Max Rheiner. Wired explains: To simulate the effortlessness of […]
The FAA is struggling to develop regulations for the use of flying cameras, commonly referred to as “drones,” as they become more and more widely used. Currently, there’s some confusion around what is legal to do with your drone and where, as demonstrated by the recent arrest of two men who flew a “drone” too close […]
ANIMAL’s Radicals Of Retrofuturism uncovers stories by the technological rebels of the past in vintage media and looks at their predictions in the context of today’s digital world. This week, we take a look at Charles Csuri’s “Random War” illustration inside a 1970 Sam Shepard playbill. Operation Sidewinder, the 1970 play by luminary Sam Shepard, […]
Earlier this week, it was widely reported that two New York City residents were arrested and charged with a felony for intimidating an NYPD helicopter with a flying camera, or as it is popularly referred to nowadays — a drone. “Sources” told the Daily News that Wilkins Mendoza, 34, and Remy Castro, 23, were operating […]
The NYPD arrested two men this week who are accused of flying a drone within 800 feet of a police helicopter. The men were operating the unmanned device near the George Washington Bridge and upon the approach of the helicopter, “continued to circle the bridge, forcing the chopper to change course to avoid it,” KXAN […]
Ukraine’s military is strapped for cash, so much so that they’ve been openly asking for donations to help in their preparations for further conflict with Russia and Russian separatists within the country. A group called the People’s Project (whose website is more than a little dystopian) took this fundraising to the next level, crowdfunding the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Crispin talks about Charon — a technically complex year-long project creating a gorgeous sculpture derived from a flight path of a drone. In short, Charon is an interactive installation and sculpture created […]
The crowd-sourced site Travel By Drone allows anyone to upload their aerial drone footage into an online database which will function much like Google Street View. On this site, everyone can share YouTube videos and add the corresponding location. It will appear on the map with a pin where the video footage has been recorded. After […]
