Gallery: This Open Source Graffiti Drone Will Give Cops Nightmares

  • Graffiti artist Katsu recently debuted a series of paintings made with a spraypaintwielding drone.
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    Graffiti artist Katsu recently debuted a series of paintings made with a spray-paint-wielding drone.
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    The splotchy canvasses wouldn’t necessary stop you in your tracks, but the process by which they were created is entirely new. Katsu pilots the craft remotely, but every movement is translated through the machine’s need to keep itself aloft.
  • Part of Katsus aim with his drone is simply to raise questions about the transformative effect the machines might have...
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    Part of Katsu’s aim with his drone is simply to raise questions about the transformative effect the machines might have on art.
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    “What does it mean that I’m able to be throwing these strokes up and across a canvas that is 30 feet wide and is suspended 25 feet in the air?,” he asks. "Painting in these ways just wasn’t previously possible."
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    You have to wonder, though, if cops will someday respond with anti-graffiti drones of their own.
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