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The Graffiti Drone
tedlistens writes: "KATSU is known for his adventurous and speculative vandalism, but his new project is not fake or hypothetical, though it does elevate his work to new heights. He has developed a system to attach a spray can to a quadcopter, creating one of the world's first graffiti drones. The drone is capable of spraying canvases or walls hundreds of feet high, granting the artist access to spaces that were previously inaccessible. At the Silicon Valley Contemporary art fair, which opened Thursday, KATSU is showing a series of drone-painted canvasses — and preparing to take the drone out on the town. 'There are a lot of disadvantages to drones, you know. It's not like, "oh, I'll slip off the edge of this bridge and die,"' he tells the Center for the Study of the Drone at Motherboard, which also has a video. 'Its like, "I might have the drone drift off and I might kill someone."'"
Demolition Man was off by about 20 years...
I will be more impressed by a dozens of drones simultaneously spraying, crossing streams to make more colors.
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This takes all the fun out of graffiti. There always has been some kind of mark of artists pride to have people look at a tag and say "How the bugger did they get up there?"
Now it will just be "Oh, high-tech vandals." The magic is gone
That graffiti looks like shit.
He's not going to complain when the police drones provide a counterpoint by dousing him with pepper spray, right?
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He is a seriously lame dickhead, just wanting attention, is not an artist.
so the public can pummel them with rotten fruit.
More graffitis in cities...
I wish those so-called "artists" practised their art on canvas at home or something, instead of ruining cityscapes and costing taxpayers millions for cleanup.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Yeah street "art" is all fun and games, until someone paints up YOUR property.
I hope slashdot is getting paid to link to Vice magazine.
It would be great if he'd slip off the edge of a bridge and die.
For the big yellow smiley face on the statue of liberty in light-sensitive paint.
Let us know when he can actually control it. Right now it looks like he's channeling Jackson Pollock.
-jcr
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ultimately strafing the vandals who sent them with gatling guns full of spent U238 bullets, cleaning up both our streets and the gene pool.
Brutally murdering people for graffiti aside, why would a gun be full of spent rounds?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
A DPU strafing would clean the gene pool, but I doubt it would have the same effect on the streets, gibs and all that...
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
Like other people said, it's too bad these artists disrespect the property rights of others.
It takes some practice to fly these drones well, even though they have such high-tech features as on-board GPS systems and smartphone or tablet software as control devices in many cases. They're usually smart enough to do things like stop moving and hover in place, when they lose a control signal, until you catch back up with them. But flying one precisely enough to draw actual paintings with spray paint is surely not something everyone can just run out and do well.
I'd like to see this become a new "thing" ... but in a more acceptable setting. I think people would enjoy watching or even pay to see good artists creating art with flying drones -- but spraying it on places where they were ALLOWED to do it!
Smack. Dead.
If only it were that easy with the Angels of Death that the governments can afford, which hover above us and can record and kill anyone at any time. It's a dystopian technocracy, all this. The exact opposite of what the future was supposed to become like. And you're all cheering them on. Except for a few enlightened souls with zero power.
...wish I had mod points for you today.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
ultimately strafing the vandals who sent them with gatling guns full of spent U238 bullets, cleaning up both our streets and the gene pool.
Brutally murdering people for graffiti aside, why would a gun be full of spent rounds?
The GP is talking about depleted uranium rounds They are used mainly for armor piercing because the rounds are very dense and can be made thinner than a lead round of the same density to decrease drag. Why the GP feels we need these to hunt down some guy with a can of spray paint, I couldn't tell you.
If the drone contributes 50% or more of the final output, is it still art? Even if the drone didn't contribute, would it still be art?
How usable with this be high up in the air next to a building when the wind is blowing?
What about the air pollution produced by spraying paint with VOCs all over the place? Are graffiti "artists" insensitive to environmental concerns?
I think it would be better to use the quad blades to lift the drone to the desired height then use a ducted fan or other technology to adhere the thing to the building and then spray under real control, without the wind blowing the drone all over the place. After completing the "art", it would detach itself and fly back home.
Free targets for my Beeman .25 pellet rifle. You tag, you get shot.
I suppose that what you Americans call "tagging" is known in my country (Brazil) as "pichação". This "art" is made by animals marking their "territory", and the only thing that works well against this urban blight is a good bullet in the head. Or even better, two bullets to ensure. There is no more depressing thing than seeing your entire city tagged by these animals (And believe me, they also act and talk like animals).
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That is *not* a Graffiti Drone, it's an RC Quadcopter with a Spraycan attached. Hopelessly imbalanced and overladen, aimlessly spraying paint about and barely even hitting the space it's supposed to paint on, let alone drawing anything remotely resembling usefull graffity.
These guys have a long way to go.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
If by cleaning up the gene pool, you mean polluting urban centers with carcinogenic depleted uranium, so that many more innocent bystanders' DNA gets damaged...
Why the GP feels we need these to hunt down some guy with a can of spray paint, I couldn't tell you.
Wait until your entire neighborhood get covered in gangsta-like tagging, and then you will understand the reason for this.
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I don't get the drone vs rappelling on rope issue. I'm open to being educated tho. What I see is that in the past, people defaced others property - public or private, up close and personal. Now with a drone, the defacer can deface others property without having to put themselves at risk. What's changed? Maybe there'll be a real issue when someone operating a drone defaces property and someone gets killed cleaning up as they had to rappel to sandblast the paint. This is similar to stealing copyrighted material from the internet vs stealing from a walmart. They're both stealing, the internet you can steal with much lower risk of getting caught. ----- full disclosure - perhaps I'm a hypocrite, but 'illegal' BASE doesn't bother me as much as there is (likely) no damage to property.
Because they make the world a worse place. And it's OBVIOUS. So really easy to spot and control. Not much to interpert in the action.
If you don't own the space or have permission to paint there. Don't fucking paint there. It's really simple.
If you want the 'right' to paint whatever the fuck you want. Anywhere you want. You need to goto some 3rd world shithole and get to it. Here in the civilized world we like to keep our property the way we wanted it. Not the way some dipshit with a spraycan thought it should be.
Now we just need armed drones to execute vandals like KATSU.
From the article title I thought they could be like something out of "All Tomorrow's Parties".
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Why the GP feels we need these to hunt down some guy with a can of spray paint, I couldn't tell you. Wait until your entire neighborhood get covered in gangsta-like tagging, and then you will understand the reason for this.
So it's better to have high velocity radioactive waste flying around and fragmenting all over the place? These types of rounds are meant for use on a battlefield against tanks and armored targets where collateral damage is no little to no concern. Not in urban areas with civilians for a backstop. A stray DU round could easily go through your house, continue on through your neighbors house, through their neighbors house and come to rest half way through the engine block of their neighbors car. And that's if all of the houses are brick
A drone that would need this type of shell to bring it down would probably be too heavy to get off the ground. And it's sure as hell not going to be what someone who wants to put their tag on a bridge is going to use. A shotgun type shell with plastic pellets would probably be much more sensible.
Or do you think they need this type of round to target the person controlling the drone? Are they living in a armor and reinforced concrete underground bomb shelter? If not, then this is pretty damn stupid. But just to be sure, I volunteer your neighborhood for testing. Perhaps they can see how a MOAB fairs. You know, just to be sure.
I do not believe you're so stupid ... I'll summarize for you: I agree with the idea that taggers should be killed. BUT, do not cross your mind at any time the guy overreacted INTENTIONALLY? Do you really, really think someone will use DU bullets against a civilian drone? Geez!
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I expected the little widdle drone doing something...you know, that resembled a drawing or a pattern, even if it's just a signature or a smiley face or a pattern of dots or something.
Instead the poor bugger just stumbles around with a constant stream of paint. That's not very artistic at all, it just gets the wall dirty.
The drone in the video does what any RC quadcopter would do if you attached a permanently-on paint spray to it. For someone regarded as an artist I expected something...artistic. Or at least technologically advanced or autonomous or using a complex control system, this being Slashdot and all.
Yeah naive me for expecting something else, I know, my fault entirely.
It is ugly and ruins neighborhoods that already have enough problems. It is vandalism not art. Buy your own walls what your not that good to afford your own. Or you dont want that crap on your own wall.
I know of a bunch of shops and bakeries that hired graffiti artists to paint something on their fence, and in all cases it was a great job. You can only see them when the shop is closed, but still. Some towns also let good stuff survive. Not all graffiti is some idiot tagging a wall.
Although, in this very specific case it's just vandalism. The drone can't even be manipulated to draw a sorry smiley face or a square or anything, it just gets the wall dirty at random. It's not even a drone given how poorly controlled it is. It's a wannabe drone.
Interesting idea, but seriously don't exhibit until you have mastered a new tool.
... is where I stopped reading.