QUAD ANARCHOPTER (Stencil)

Posted by on February 22nd, 2012

I love this stencil by @interdome, click through for it in various formats.


‘A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors’

Posted by on January 31st, 2012

I’m not sure that’s a fitting collective noun, but…

…duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude:

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via Chris Arkenberg


“Flying people in New York City”

Posted by on January 31st, 2012
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It’s amazing the power a few geometric shapes can have on our emotions.


Bruce Sterling @ Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture

Posted by on November 30th, 2011

Here’s Chairman Bruce just a few days ago at the STRP Festival, once more describing our immediate situation and near-future in terms we can then build on and discuss with:

http://www.vimeo.com/32749323

Who Monitors the Birds? (#droneculture)

Posted by on November 16th, 2011

Citizen journalism went to new heights in Warsaw, Poland just the other day:

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After the Mayor’s efforts to restrict the Press during the “clear out” of Occupy Wall Street, this technology should soon be standard issue for anyone wanting to preserve Raw History.

Who should be the early-adopters of this than the “good” “folks” at News Corp:

Rupert Murdoch’s pet project, The Daily, has some impressive aerial footage today of the devastation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was obtained with an unusual tool.The Observer was the first to report, back in November, that the staff of the iPad app was working with “a journalistic secret weapon,” the Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter, also known as “The Flying Video Game.” Now they’re finally putting the thing to use, with a new feature called “Daily Drone.”

And just to clarify, “drone” refers to the unmanned chopper itself, not the announcer’s rather dry intonation.

And the Military-Entertainment Complex lurches a step closer to the world depicted in the excellent Mexican cyberpunk movie, Sleep Dealer:

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