Friday, December 21, 2012

Know your drones with portable military-style kit full of model UAVs

via booktwo.org

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...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/21/3792868/james-bridle-drone-recognition-kit

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