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The Graffiti Drone

Posted by Soulskill on from the vandalism-goes-high-tech dept.

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."'"

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  1. Well, thats a bummer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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

    1. Re:Well, thats a bummer. by kruach+aum · · Score: 1, Interesting

      No, the magic has moved from the person willing to risk his life to the team of persons intelligent enough to create a machine that is controllable from a distance and not beholden to the laws of gravity.

  2. I expect... by msauve · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He's not going to complain when the police drones provide a counterpoint by dousing him with pepper spray, right?

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