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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.
It's not art just because you don't like it. What about slinging your brush and dripping paint on a giant canvas? Would you consider that art or not (Jackson Pollock)?
Yes, it's art.
Oh get off of it you pretentious troll. I can't tell from your post whether you consider yourself an artist or not but a "true" artist wouldn't be so insecure and concern themselves with meaningless classifications. In the end, the message is in the "art" and not the morons trying to pass off snobbery as insightful analysis.
Now wouldn't it be great if everyone used a Coraled URL to access the site? It's no help right now since the site is already down, but if it does come up, this would help preserve its bandwidth.
...and lawyers ;-)
The resolution is not good enough, I think. Since you are taking panoramic pictures with a lot of small detail, you really want high resolution or any particular ground feature will just devolve into a few fuzzy pixels. To take really good arial pictures, I would expect black and white film photography probably is by far the best (though perhaps least convenient) choice.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
I think that the Slashdot editors should take it upon themselves to modify all links in the submitted article to be Coral'd. Now that a method exists by which to help eliminate (or greatly reduce) the /. effect, Slashdot owes it to the websites to which it links to prevent whatever /. effect it can.
Perhaps all slashdot links should automatically have the nyud.net:8090 tacked on. Save everyone the trouble
In case of fire, break glass and RUN!
Pointing your camera at the ground and pressing the shutter does not a piece of art make.
unless you happen to be minor white
Sure you get a bunch of photos, but can you really say that you, the photographer, were the one taking the random, haphazard pictures?
Seriously consider found art, Dada, postmodern art and other forms of high art and the answer is yes, btw did you bother to look at the pictures before ranting? I am a photographer and was taken by the composition and beauty of the pictures.
I hate when people demean art by claiming that their homespun crap is on par with the work of true artists.
It is impossible to demean art. I hate it when people think that art has to be made by a certain class of people to be art. And by homespun crap are you referring to folk art? If it was in a gallery you would call it art.
I'm looking right at you, Thomas Kinkade!
And poor Thomas Kinkade will go home and cry in his big pile of money.
"The resolution is not good enough, I think"
Perhaps some processing of a shitload of these wireless camera frames would result in a nice single frame. There certainly is a lot more information about the scene in the aggredate data.