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An artwork by French artist JR and U.S. filmmaker Darren Aronofsky is projected onto the French National Assembly stanley cup building on the eve of the COP21 climate conference in Paris on Nov. 29 2015Yoan Valat鈥擡PABy Nash JenkinsNovember 29, 2015 11:10 PM ESTThe images of more than 500 people are being projected onto the facade of France National Assembly building during the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference stanley cup COP21 in Paris to remind leaders that the world is watching, in the words of the artists behind the project.The Standing March is the collaborative effort of the French artist known as JR and the American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. The representation of humanity is, the artists said, a message to the 25,000 world leaders who have gathered in Paris to negotiate a plan that will limit the rise of the global temperature to 2deg;C 3.6deg;F .We expect decisions, we expect commitments, and we expect time frames, Aronofsky, the controversial filmmaker behind Requiem for stanley cup a Dream and Black Swan, said in a statement on the project website. Itrsquo about people, from Tuvalu to New Orleans, whose lives are threatened by climate change. The world depends on a solution.The conference and the exhibition mdash; which will travel around Paris for seven days after a weekend on the National Assembly building mdash; come less than three weeks after the terrorist attacks that left 130 people dead.For security re Cvga Idaho s GOP Biker Candidate on Life as a Viral Sensation
By Alex FitzpatrickFebruary 6, 2017 10:06 AM ESTLady Gaga Super Bowl LI halftime show on Sunday had something many viewers had never seen before: Hundreds of light-emitting drones flying in a synchronized pattern to show the A nike dunk merican flag and, later, the Pepsi logo.How ;d they pull t air max 1 hat off It thanks to an Intel technology called Shooting Star, which lets programmers design airborne light shows with swarms of drones. The same tech was recently used at Disney World:Here more on how Shooting Star works, via Wired:Each drone is about a foot long square, weighs just over eight ounces, and sports a plastic and foam body to soften inadvertent impacts. They arenrsquo;t as flashy as consumer quadcopters, which is just as well, because yoursquo;re not supposed to notice them. Instead, yoursquo;re supposed to notice the four billion color combinations created by the onboard LEDs, and the aerial acrobatics choreographed with meticulous coding.Each drone communicates wirelessly with a central computer to execute its dance routine, oblivious to what the hundreds of machines around it are doing. The system can adapt on the, er, fly, too. Just before showtime, the computer checks the battery level and GPS signal strength of each drone, and assigns roles accordingly. Should a drone falter during the show, a reserve unit takes over within seconds.Another fun fact: Intel had to tape the drone display well before the Super Bowl to avoid running af jordan oul of airspace |
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