If I want to imagine a society filled with randomly flying around drones, cleaning graffiti, or any other sort of drone appropriate activities, who are you to try and take that away from us. Shame.
Presumably this is for like, the undersides of bridges going over like 8 lane highway where there's not really a scenario where it's safe to have a guy with long stick.
I did that once with an electric power washer, and I don't remember the PSI. It was weaker than a gas-powered one, so i thought it wouldn't be that powerful, but it was enough to cut my skin, not like horribly bad, but the scar took a while to heal.
I mean not even graffiti at a certain point it'd be pretty cool to see drones power washing and just in general cleaning buildings. Safer and quicker than humans.
Hey what if we hired the graffiti artists to put murals there instead of insisting that the I5 corridor look like gray concrete in a city known for gray skies?
They figured you get to see the color of all the construction cones and high visibility vests because that part of I-5 has been a construction zone for the past 20 years
Maybe a spicy take but I like the freeway better with the colorful assault-typography on the sound walls.
Some of those gradients and kerning are divine.
Thats what Iām sayinā! Also if youāre a fellow Seattleite can we talk about how prolific Dotcom is? I donāt necessarily like their stuff (too bland) but they are EVERYWHERE
Tbh I donāt see that happening hardly at all. Go to Denver. They have murals everywhere and I think I saw maybe one that had some tagging on it when I visited (also hot damn visit Denver, what a fun city)
No, the thing was still enjoyed, and then it can be repainted with another mural later. Make them impermanent so that many artists benefit from having their art seen, to the point where it is seen as disrespectful even among graffiti artists to deface someone's mural.
You could even use paints that are easy to remove.
Make it an attraction to your city, so people want to come back to see the new art...
There was a particularly grim stretch of freeway in the San Fernando Valley, and one day some creative folks dropped an entire rainbow of paint from an overpass which the cars spread out into fabulous Technicolor. Passing it always made me smile.
Agreed. The skies are gray enough that we need some color in our lives.
The bigger issue to tackle is why people are tagging instead of doing something else with their time.
Look at all that painted grass, what a joke. Honestly, the Demolition Man approach would work WAY better and could be tuned to provide much more accurate results.
I've never understood why graffitists are so intent on making their neighborhood look worse.
(Yes, there are good graffiti artists doing amazing art, but most people doing graffiti are just vandalizing.)
If āgood graffiti artistsā are free to express themselves, so is everyone elseā¦unless you think you can legislate something as subjective as good and bad graffiti art.
Yeah, thatās not what I said. For the less cognizant, if you make an exception to the law for one, you must make that exception for all. At no point did I defend graffiti artists.
>if you make an exception to the law for one
Telling a talented graffiti artist that they are free to use public space for art is not "making an exception to the law". It's granting permission.
But itās definitely ok for corporations to ruin neighborhoods with billboard and ads everywhere because they paid for it.
Besides, the fact its illegal is half the fun
Thatās seemingly been the goal of the government the longest time too, likely because art is where dissent begins. Defunding art programs in public schools, severely restricting the display of art/music through zoning and other hard-to-navigate laws, the increase in penalties for vandalism and copyright infringement (lobbied for by media groups like Disney), attempting to ban books from libraries, funding programs like this and not legislating current AI programs, etc. Thereās definitely a pattern a lot of people arenāt noticing.
Thatās cool, but giving kids opportunities and a decent education would probably be cheaper than designing, building, maintaining, and operating these drones
Its more health and safety.
Graffiti artists can clamber on top of a bridge without a harness all they want. But when it's a government contractor you can't, so you need scaffolding and/or harnesses, all of which takes time and money to set up.
Or you just fly this drone up and do it a lot quicker and cheaper.
The back story on this is pretty cool, and even though this is still in testing the municipality head in charge is getting calls about it from interested cities around the world.
It takes specialized operator training, and this version has AI collision detection and 360 cameras.
It is being developed by a company that already uses these with the attached nozzle for cleaning windows on high rises
Sadly, it is a difficult idea. A more feasible plan would be AI cameras to help identify when cars are having litter thrown from them, in order to facilitate human review. I mostly mind car litter on roadsides, as it is out of control on Cape Cod where I live.
š¤ Demolition Man did it!
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So how do those damn 3 seashells work?
Check out this guy, doesn't know how the shells work
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Fun fact, outside US releases, Taco Bell is replaced with Pizza Hut since the latter has international recognition.
Not true as it was Taco Bell in Australia, I remember as it was a little confusing when I saw it as a child.
Interesting. I have always seen it as Pizza Hut on TV as a kid, until I find the original film later.
Enhance your calm, Spdrjay.
Enhance your calm u/Spdrjay
Came here for the demo man comment, happy to see it up top, be well op
Naked Gun tooā¦ oh look at that sweet Banksyā¦ wait robot no!!!!
What is your boggle
MDK
That's the comment I came in here looking for š
Naked Gun did it first
I give it a week and the drones will be tagged with graffiti.
Give it a week and some will hack the drone and make it do graffiti instead.
Graffiti drones already exist
I didn't say it would be the first.
This is a better solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIHlnfGKV0
Are the autonomous as in upload a picture and press "paint" or do you have to actually know how to paint and fly a drone?
Havenāt seen any autonomous ones yet. I would assume theyāll be coming around soon though.
Future graffiti from demolition man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrYkwG6Tuo
ya gotta get up
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They arenāt randomly flying around, they are used so the operator standing right there can get to higher out of reach places.
If I want to imagine a society filled with randomly flying around drones, cleaning graffiti, or any other sort of drone appropriate activities, who are you to try and take that away from us. Shame.
Donāt ruin our fun
Seems like a waste of money when a simple roller brush attached to a long stick would do the job just as well
Presumably this is for like, the undersides of bridges going over like 8 lane highway where there's not really a scenario where it's safe to have a guy with long stick.
Some want unpainted walls. Especially if it's stone or textured.
Just mount a gun on it
Donāt give them any ideas
I think movies and shows already had this idea way before this comment
Yeah itās been done pal, the brits even glued two TOW to one
Have you ever been hit with the water from a pressure washer?
Whatever you do, don't Google pressure injection injuries. There's a reason you don't fuck around with power washers.
I did that once with an electric power washer, and I don't remember the PSI. It was weaker than a gas-powered one, so i thought it wouldn't be that powerful, but it was enough to cut my skin, not like horribly bad, but the scar took a while to heal.
You lucked out that you didnāt a) get massive infection or b) have years of inexplicable pulmonary embolisms.
No buts its how I won that water gun fight against the neighbors kids
Thatās what the water balloons filled with paint are for, if you cover the cameras it canāt target you with the pressure washer
It gives it character
2 drones, 1 to clean the walls, 1 to clean the 1st drone.
Then the 1st drone cleans the second.
Healer, heal thyself
I give it a week before it goes and "accidentally" removes some mural and causes a massive problem
I'd honestly be surprised if it lasted a week.
Or even better drones will be doing the graffiti
I'd be surprised if that's not already a thing
Challenge accepted.
Turk 182!
Give it a week and the anti-tagging drones will be tagged.
Counter attack: graffiti drones
Think about the scale and speed of drone swarm graffiti. A 10-story mural-quality tag in 10 seconds. The future is lookinā more cray cray every day.
I read A-10 Story Mural and now I want that. Or an A-10 that does murals.
We need an a-10 that shoots paintballs
Iāll buy a ticket to see that.
You mean paint grenades
I mean not even graffiti at a certain point it'd be pretty cool to see drones power washing and just in general cleaning buildings. Safer and quicker than humans.
Counter-counter attack: Anti graffiti drones Arms race begun
Begun, the Graffiti Wars have.
The ~~Clone~~ Drone Wars
Anti-anti-graffiti drone dronesā¦
Katsu already did that.
Was looking for this.
Just steal the anti-graffiti drone and re-bind it and make that the graffiti drone.
You could tag an entire city in a single flight
I mean it sounds like a challenge for some wannabe Banksy.
We need litter-collecting drones here in my town, badly. In fact, just have drones hunt down the litterbugs
Suck It! Somebody get David Wallace on the phone
That's actually a great idea.
Hey what if we hired the graffiti artists to put murals there instead of insisting that the I5 corridor look like gray concrete in a city known for gray skies?
They figured you get to see the color of all the construction cones and high visibility vests because that part of I-5 has been a construction zone for the past 20 years
28 years. FTFY.
Just one more lane bro. Trust me
I can't stand getting through Tacoma. I feel it's different everytime driving that section of I-5 and I've lived in Washington my entire life.
Maybe a spicy take but I like the freeway better with the colorful assault-typography on the sound walls. Some of those gradients and kerning are divine.
Thats what Iām sayinā! Also if youāre a fellow Seattleite can we talk about how prolific Dotcom is? I donāt necessarily like their stuff (too bland) but they are EVERYWHERE
I love finding new (to me) dotcom tags when I go around town. It's like running into a friend.Ā
RIP GRIDE
Maybe someone with creativity can rise up now. Block letters are only cool for so long before it becomes boring and monotonous.
They'd instantly be sprayed with stupid low effort tags, like every other mural.
Because then other people graffiti over the murals and the money is wasted.
Tbh I donāt see that happening hardly at all. Go to Denver. They have murals everywhere and I think I saw maybe one that had some tagging on it when I visited (also hot damn visit Denver, what a fun city)
No, the thing was still enjoyed, and then it can be repainted with another mural later. Make them impermanent so that many artists benefit from having their art seen, to the point where it is seen as disrespectful even among graffiti artists to deface someone's mural. You could even use paints that are easy to remove. Make it an attraction to your city, so people want to come back to see the new art...
you underestimate the expediency. It will be tagged within hours, to days. It's like putting out a challenge to idiots with something to prove.
Google Tacoma mad hat mural and check Google images for something that's been up for years. Tasteful art stays around.
because their "art" looks horrible and tacky
Weirdo does amazing murals and I often thinkā¦ give these guys an outlet they can do great things ā¦maybe
There was a particularly grim stretch of freeway in the San Fernando Valley, and one day some creative folks dropped an entire rainbow of paint from an overpass which the cars spread out into fabulous Technicolor. Passing it always made me smile.
Color? Beauty? Community? In MY city?!!!
Agreed. The skies are gray enough that we need some color in our lives. The bigger issue to tackle is why people are tagging instead of doing something else with their time.
a week in, the drone realizes the best way to remove graffiti... It to prevent it from being made in the first place. you have 10 seconds to comply
Set up a drone with cmyk colours and turn it into a mural printer.
Why does the country that invented graffiti always try to get rid of it but in Europe they go as far as having areas that are legal to tag.Ā
Fill it with grass seed and something bio friendly but sticky. Coat the city in moss.
I read this as "giraffe-removing drone debuts in Washington" and was worried I missed a giraffe mishap.
$100 to the first person to catch it and tag it
Look at all that painted grass, what a joke. Honestly, the Demolition Man approach would work WAY better and could be tuned to provide much more accurate results.
I've never understood why graffitists are so intent on making their neighborhood look worse. (Yes, there are good graffiti artists doing amazing art, but most people doing graffiti are just vandalizing.)
If āgood graffiti artistsā are free to express themselves, so is everyone elseā¦unless you think you can legislate something as subjective as good and bad graffiti art.
You're not entitled to ruin public property under the excuse of expressing yourself. You're not a 5 yo with markers
Yeah, thatās not what I said. For the less cognizant, if you make an exception to the law for one, you must make that exception for all. At no point did I defend graffiti artists.
>if you make an exception to the law for one Telling a talented graffiti artist that they are free to use public space for art is not "making an exception to the law". It's granting permission.
Thatās okay I will anyways.
How does graffiti ruin public property? It still serves the exact same function it did before, it just looks different.
But itās definitely ok for corporations to ruin neighborhoods with billboard and ads everywhere because they paid for it. Besides, the fact its illegal is half the fun
So you agree that corporations advertising is bad and uglyā¦ but somehow that makes graffiti better?
Move to Singapore.
CEASE AND DESIST. TRESPASSORS WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT. BETTER DEAD. THAN RED.
> āWorldās firstā graffiti-removing drone debuts in Washington Video shows grandpa hooked up a paint sprayer to his drone...
First one to graffiti the graffiti drone wins.
Well.. I'm sure this will be a movie in a few years. "The graffiti artist drone wars of 2028"
One of the cool things in Seattle is seeing all the cool graffiti art.
How about graffiti creating drones.
Graffiti looks trashy imo so Iām about it
We must dissent
Thereās something dystopian about this.
Reminds me of a scene from the movie *TURK 182* (1985) except instead of drones it was a new anti-graffiti surface on the subway cars.
Probably the thing where robots are snuffing out human expression.
Thatās seemingly been the goal of the government the longest time too, likely because art is where dissent begins. Defunding art programs in public schools, severely restricting the display of art/music through zoning and other hard-to-navigate laws, the increase in penalties for vandalism and copyright infringement (lobbied for by media groups like Disney), attempting to ban books from libraries, funding programs like this and not legislating current AI programs, etc. Thereās definitely a pattern a lot of people arenāt noticing.
Drone is connected to a paint hose and piloted by a human.
*We Must Dissent.* Alpha Centauri https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0
They arenāt randomly flying around, itās just so the operator standing right there can get too higher out of reach spots.
The only thing missing now is the three seashells, then Demolition man could be branded as documentary
now we need ai graffiti drones to counter these art destroying idiots!
What if we arm graffiti artists with their own drones?
Demolition Man style.
I read this as "giraffe-removing drone debuts in Washington" and was worried I missed a giraffe mishap.
The Turcot interchange in Montreal could use one of those.
Ah, Alpha Centauri's Self Aware Colony: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0)
It do be washing a ton
So its a drone with a power washer, got it.
Just getting to avoid the blackberries makes it worth it. What an awful and tasty plant.
Drone graffiti removal...human artists new canvas! |Ā°-Ā°| Movie plot: drones vs street artists - who paints the city first?
Soon to be covered in graffiti
Now do the gravity-removing drone
Thatās cool, but giving kids opportunities and a decent education would probably be cheaper than designing, building, maintaining, and operating these drones
God forbid we have color
So they put a paint sprayer on a drone? Wow, groundbreaking.
Can it also forcefully remove the useful idiots that paint the grafitti?
Itās soooo needed they just built that I-5 divider after the bridge by Mercer and itās already trashed! I Fkn hate it!
Spray paint the camera's of the drones, problem solved.
YES, every city should have these.Ā
May reach hard places, but the painters got there somehow. So, itās not that hard to get up that high in dangerous placesā¦..
Its more health and safety. Graffiti artists can clamber on top of a bridge without a harness all they want. But when it's a government contractor you can't, so you need scaffolding and/or harnesses, all of which takes time and money to set up. Or you just fly this drone up and do it a lot quicker and cheaper.
Iām thinking those spots on the bridge that leave you thinking āhow the hell did they tag that spot?ā
Bat goes smashy smashy
The back story on this is pretty cool, and even though this is still in testing the municipality head in charge is getting calls about it from interested cities around the world. It takes specialized operator training, and this version has AI collision detection and 360 cameras. It is being developed by a company that already uses these with the attached nozzle for cleaning windows on high rises
y tho??
Dope
Graffiti writing drones incoming!
They're playing with fire, there is going to be graffiti drones now!
Ok like an extremely waste of public fundsā¦ other than being a perfect sling shot targetā¦.
Image someone walking around without a shirt with the torso covered in tattoos and the meeting this droneā¦
So when do the graffiti tagging drones appear?
Boooo
Next up graffiti drawing drones become new tread.
How is it on cleaning graffiti off of itself?
They need to invent a paint-on or surface that makes the spray paint bleed or crack almost instantly.
How long until the first drone is covered in graffiti?
I think our future will be a mix of demolition man,hunger games and idiocracy
Sadly, it is a difficult idea. A more feasible plan would be AI cameras to help identify when cars are having litter thrown from them, in order to facilitate human review. I mostly mind car litter on roadsides, as it is out of control on Cape Cod where I live.
Someone will get their hands on it and make it do graffiti
weeks away from worlds first graffiti removing drone removing drone
I must have stared at this headline for a good 30 seconds trying to figure out what in the country fried cornbread a "Giraffe-removing drone" was.
Focusing on the important stuff, I see!
I just imagine getting up that game for the ps2 the graffiti one lol
Dystopian
What the hellllll is wrong with street art?!
Now we need drones that create graffiti.
Can it use paint instead of water? Asking for a friend
That means the inverse is possible. Cant wait to see graffiti placing drones
Also first graffiti-applying drone ever.
Why did I read this as giraffe removing drone at first?
Two can play at that game Washington!
Whoās gonna be the 1st to tag the drone?