LOCAL: I filmed at some locations in Fayette County. The “longest festival in the world” stretches 90 miles from Baltimore, MD to Wheeling, WV along US 40. The “National Road” or “Pike Days” Festival is a long drive through rural areas, mountains and valleys, parades, yard sales, bands, vendors of every description, and people generally being neighborly and enjoying the weather. It was warm and very windy. I cobbled together a video of the wagon train crossing the last summit of the western Allegheny Mountains.
DRONE NEWS: University Of Kentucky Tests Medical Drone Deliveries In Rural Appalachia Is exactly the sort of service I wish I was operating. Whenever someone says “medical drone service” to me, I have the same reaction Doc Brown does to the mention of the words “flux capacitor”.
A fisherman saved a teenage girl with a drone. Caught in a dangerous riptide that swept the girl out to sea, the fisherman attached a flotational device to the drone and flew it out to her to keep her from drowning. Pensacola fisherman uses drone to save young girl from drowning in rip current.
View EO 12866 Meeting Normalizing BVLOS is in the sandbox. Normalizing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Beyond Visual Line of Sight Operations with a target date of 05/27/25 to possibly have a bill.
DJI’s Mavic 4 is unavailable in the US. The price of an Avata 2 went up like 40%. I could have used the 4 last weekend with that wind gusting up to 30 mph. In an urban setting it was even worse. The 4 will go like 56 mph, just like Sammy Hagar.
SCIENCE: This former Google CEO wants to take data centers into Earth’s orbit. “AI is consuming power faster than Earth can supply. Are orbital solar data centers the answer?” Like filling landfills with gigantic fiberglass turbine blades. Regressive.
ART: I am shipping the “Matala Beach” oil on canvas painting today. I was too busy this weekend with the Pike Days festival to paint or work on my voxel project.
You might have seen his work on the cover of a Sonic Youth album. Mort Engles’ journeyman’s paintings reborn as haute couture and whatnot. Richard Prince’s work is important for the questions it raises about fair use of other people’s work.
Prince’s 2002–2003 painting Man Crazy Nurse, however, sold for a shade under $4 million—well below the $12.1 million record for a “Nurse” series work, set at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in 2021.
– ArtNews
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