Sure, you've heard about military drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). You may have been warned by a street poster, or maybe you're worried about how all that surveillance footage will get analyzed. But can you tell an MQ-1 Predator from an RQ-4 Global Hawk? Artist James Bridle, known for his work in the "new aesthetic" movement, put together a mobile kit complete with three models of military drones and tiny human figures for scale. Previously, Bridle built Dronestagram , which posted satellite images charting where US drone strikes had happened. He's called Dronestagram a way to make the often ignored places where the US uses drones "a little bit more visible," and UAV Identification Kit 001 applies the same logic to the drones...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/21/3792868/james-bridle-drone-recognition-kit
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