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Kite Aerial Photography
j cherney writes "A great combination of digital photography, kite flying, and wireless remote control. Absolutely incredible pictures. Enjoy!" We've mentioned this expensive pursuit a few times before, including a bit on how to build one of your own.
Is the new trend down blouse pictures? I like it already.
and put a camera on it so you can see when it dies. :p
:/
I managed to see one picture before the site died.
Hmm...I forsee great business opportunities for camera repair shops.
Hi there
Apparently there's a fire at the hosting company... Slashdot to the rescue! (batman theme song)
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
Webmaster - please contact support as soon as possible. Sooomebodyss innn troouubllleee....
hey, get out there and shake your tits on a webcam like everyone else.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
From the nameservers it looks like he's serving out of his own house (as I posted up a few notches).
That said, if he wants to put in a trouble ticket to www.dynamicname.com, he might have a bit of trouble:
"The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings."
I've heard of throttling, but self-throttling seems a bit extreme.
(Reminds me of Ben Franklin!)
This should teach us all not to expose cameras to lightning when still plugged to servers!
O make me a mask
I think thier ISP just pissed them off.
"Cut off my bitorrent, will you? Fine. I'll just get this ULTRA high bandwidth, pictures galore site that's hosted on my home connection posted on Slashdot's front fucking page, Mr. No-Copyright-Infrigement-For-You-Techy-Type. Just you wait, michael won't even check where it's hosted, asshole."
Soko
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Webmaster - FUCKEN PAAAANIC!!!!!
Table-ized A.I.
Let's keep art away from the commoners - I don't want my opening parties spoiled by mouth-breathers.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Imagine the pictures you'd get from flying a kite around that Heffner's house.
I'd love to post the videos here (some flyovers at the beach), but my department's sysadmin would be pissed if I uploaded the 20+M mpgs.
It is not a good idea to post videos on Slashdot. From the Wikipedia entry on the Slashdot effect...
Your sysadmin would be very pissed, as well as the rest of your department.
I am not sure how many people would pay to see somebody called "eric" shaking their tits.... You never know though, takes all sorts...
It's not like you're actually drawing the picture yourself. The camera does the work for you, and now you use a kite to do the other part for you.
I am going to hold my breath and wait for the space elevator to take me up there and shoot my pictures!
attach yourself to the kite, and take pictures when YOU jump into the air.
s er1_256. wmv
8 meg WMV which has some pretty hairy shots.
http://www.kitefilm.com/video/completetea
lots of kite discussions here http://www.kiteforum.com
including some nice pics in the gallery
i for one welcome our new kiteboarding overlords.
Mod parent funny.
Actually you can see the lens distortion of the earth!
I've been working on pigeon aerial photography. It's like KAP only you strap a camera to a pigeon. No this is not a joke. In fact the technology is about 100 years old. If you try it at home you'll find out that it's harder than it appears, but not impossible.
We've been doing this with model airplanes for awhile now. Next Slashdot will be posting links on how to build your own UAV/RPV... It's easy to get some LIVE video using a camera BlackWidowAV.com sells. Combine that with a GPS Autopilot from u-nav.com and you have your own drone. Set waypoints to fly over your neighbors house and feed back live video of what their kids are doing...