Tag: Drones
We wrote a few weeks ago about an eerily dystopian fake town in the UK where riot police carry out simulated confrontations, complete with fake molotov cocktails. It turns out something quite similar happens here in the U.S., at a prison in West Virgina. Al Jazeera America‘s Evan Hill reported from the Mock Prison Riot, […]
In the video above, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology pilot a DJI Phantom 2 drone while wearing an Oculus Rift. They’re not piloting the drone with the virtual reality mask, like this guy — just getting a first-person view. Turn your head right, the camera turns right; turn your head left, the […]
Check this band of drones playing “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” “Carrol of the Bells” and the national anthem. See their sharply choreographed whirling, pulling and landing on electric keyboards, bells of some sort and a one-string electric slide guitar contraption equipped with a bass drum, a snare drum and two crash symbols. There’s even a very climactic GONGGGGGG […]
We’re suckers for good drone footage, and the demo reel from videographer Randy Scott Slavin delivers. Using a DJI Phantom equipped with a GoPro Hero 3 Black, Slavin shot the Manhattan Bridge, the High Line, and other NYC locations from the air. The highlight comes at around 40 seconds, when the drone flies up Fifth […]
In the video above, graffiti artist KATSU pilots a DJI Phantom II drone with a spray paint can affixed, peppering a series of canvases with paint. He’s exhibiting the works at the Silicon Valley Contemporary Art Fair, which opened yesterday. Though KATSU is technically in control, he says the quadcopter is partially responsible for any […]
What happens when you hack a camera-mounted ParrotAR drone with an Oculus Rift equipped with a head motion controller? As per Diego Araos’s hacking experiment, it’s slightly anti-climactic, but it really works! “It’s really fun and latency very low,” he says. It does look fun, doesn’t it? Swinging your head around, “flying” through the air. Try […]
The latest work in street artist JR‘s “Inside Out” series aims to remind military drone pilots that their victims are not faceless, anonymous specks, but people with lives and families. Often, they are children. This particular child, whose name was not released, lost two siblings and both of her parents in a Predator drone strike. A […]
In 2013, the sleepy Colorado town of Deer Trail made a splash when one of its residents proposed issuing drone-hunting licenses, which would legalize opening fire on unmanned aircraft. Unsurprisingly, that’s not going to happen: according to the Denver Post, 73 percent of the 181 residents who voted on the ordinance were against it. Of course, the legislation […]
Tomas Van Houtryve, a photojournalist with the VII Photo agency, mounted his camera to a small drone he bought on Amazon and traveled the country photographing “the very sorts of gatherings that have become habitual targets for foreign air strikes—weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising.” He also photographed prisons, oil fields and industrial […]
Yesterday, we reported on Brian Wilson, a photographer who was flying his DJI Phantom drone at the scene of the explosion in East Harlem that killed seven people and injured dozens. Now, the Daily News has some of the footage Wilson shot. The Daily Dot got a cell-phone clip of the drone taking off, and it […]
