AA's "Fat Flier" Got Whole Row
Ashley Dupre On Tiger Woods' Babes: "At Least I Kept My Mouth Shut"
Same-Sex Marriage Blame Game Aims at Paterson, Addabbo
Wife Tries To Abort And Poison Husband's Lovechild
Rihanna's Random Airport Search
It’s common to come across New Yorkers posting photos on their Flickrs of balloon clusters they catch drifting across the city sky. But what if the balloons began taking shots of the urban dwellers below them? This past Sunday artist David Trawin manipulated some balloons to do just that over the streets of Union Square and the East Village.
Trawin used fourteen balloons, a specially constructed platform as a holster, some heavy-duty kite reel and a hacked script to extend the time lapse feature on his digital camera, which gave the balloons time to get some real elevation. He and partner Josh Roxas then released them and took a series of aerial shots of curious onlookers down below. Trawin says that the adventure around lower Manhattan was just a test run for an upcoming balloon photo shoot of Central Park in the weeks to come.
Trawin's blog has an in-depth account of how the project came together.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Imagine what the NYPD and the Government can do with this to stifle our civil liberties.
too bad there's nothing good about the photos.
i think this is kind of neat.
as for the quality of the pictures, i'm sure there will be one or two really interesting ones after the experiment is done.
in the meantime, the pictures aren't any worse than many of the silly snapshots posted on flickr, the ones taken by actual humans.
I love this idea--I can't wait to see the photos from Central Park.
Hmmmmmmm..... This seems familiar:
http://theballoonproject.org/
I'll bet you $100 that he used CHDK.
What a fun idea.
Love the photo of him with the balloons and all the people walking by, not even the least bit interested in what's going on there... ah, New York!