Tag: Drones
At 11:45 Monday morning, a friend of ANIMAL art editor Marina Galperina sent her a GChat message saying that he’d seen a drone flying over East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “Maybe 10 foot wingspan. Probably 200 ft in the air. Not high, though it wasn’t armed with missiles or a visible camera,” Rhett Jones wrote. “I thought […]
The pilot of an Alitalia passenger plane was preparing to land at JFK airport yesterday when he reported seeing an unmanned aerial vehicle flying several miles away. “We saw a drone, a drone aircraft,” he said over the radio. The FAA and FBI are investigating. “He saw a small, unmanned or remote-controlled aircraft while on final […]
Neal Kurk, a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, is sponsoring legislation HB 619-FN to make aerial photography illegal in his state for everyone but the government. A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if such person knowingly creates or assists in creating an image of the exterior of any […]
Submergence, a transfixing immersive installation of wired-up LEDs is the latest iteration of Ocean of Light, an ongoing project expanding digital visual media into the third dimension by the decade-old art and research collective Squidsoap. The work, sometimes referred to as a low-res “volumetric visualization” was on view in Norway earlier this month and reminds […]
Micro Air Vehicles are the hot new drone for 2013, or whenever they’re actually created by the Air Force. In this simulated video, MAVs look like horrifying flying things that are “unobtrusive, pervasive, lethal.” These tightly controlled drones can spy, scan and shoot someone in the head. And these MAVs would range from the size […]
What would you pay for your very own custom drone, for all you surveillance and/or murderous needs? Thanks to Mr. Drones, a new project from Drones of New York artist Rajeev Basu, you can have an (imaginary) UAV for the low, low price of $24,999! To highlight the fact that drones will be cleared for […]
Engineers at FliteTest have mounted a medium format Lomography camera onto a remote-controlled tricopter, finally bring all the fuzzy, light-leaky, vignetting and grain that super secret spy footage has been begging for. The “Lomo-Copter” comes equipped with another first-person-view camera mounted to the Lomo-cam’s view finder, transmitting real-time footage to the drone operator’s stylish goggles. […]
That illustration above is law student Asher J. Kohn’s concept of what a fully operational drone-proof city might look like. Rather than building barriers to keep people out and deter weapon strikes like traditional defenses, Kohn’s concept–called Shura City–includes several technologies that obscure people and their movements in order to make them untraceable by UAVs. […]
With Obama’s drone war in full swing and expanded to include the killing of Americans, the Department of Defense will continue to purchase new UAVs, but what will the U.S. do with it’s older models? The burgeoning drone industry will need to find some new buyers. The most obvious place they’ll look is with police […]
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 […]
