AlohaStyle
BoM Sept '12 & Aug '13
Well no more CC's for me... looks like my source came clean!?!
A Brooklyn artist trained pigeons to haul cigars from Cuba to Key West, and he had other pigeons carry video cameras to document it... f'ing awesome! LOL
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/arts/design/avian-artistry-with-smuggled-cigars.html?_r=2&
An excerpt:
In utmost secret, Mr. Riley trained a flock of homing pigeons to fly one way from Havana to Key West, Fla. Half the birds were flat-out smugglers, running Cuban cigars to the United States. The others were documentarians, outfitted with special cameras to record their 100-mile journey across the Straits of Florida.
The idea was to highlight the long history of pirating on the southern border, and also to thumb a nose, artistically, at the cutting-edge spy devices that may monitor the coast. Drones don’t care about pigeons.
Also:
This avian performance was riskier, Mr. Riley said, and he was coy about his methods. “How those cigars end up on the birds, I can’t say,” he said, carefully. “If a bird ends up in my pigeon lofts, that happens to have a cigar from Cuba, and there also happens to be a pigeon that has a video camera on it, that shows footage of birds flying from Havana to Key West with cigars — yeah, I can’t really say how that happened.”
A Brooklyn artist trained pigeons to haul cigars from Cuba to Key West, and he had other pigeons carry video cameras to document it... f'ing awesome! LOL
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/arts/design/avian-artistry-with-smuggled-cigars.html?_r=2&
An excerpt:
In utmost secret, Mr. Riley trained a flock of homing pigeons to fly one way from Havana to Key West, Fla. Half the birds were flat-out smugglers, running Cuban cigars to the United States. The others were documentarians, outfitted with special cameras to record their 100-mile journey across the Straits of Florida.
The idea was to highlight the long history of pirating on the southern border, and also to thumb a nose, artistically, at the cutting-edge spy devices that may monitor the coast. Drones don’t care about pigeons.
Also:
This avian performance was riskier, Mr. Riley said, and he was coy about his methods. “How those cigars end up on the birds, I can’t say,” he said, carefully. “If a bird ends up in my pigeon lofts, that happens to have a cigar from Cuba, and there also happens to be a pigeon that has a video camera on it, that shows footage of birds flying from Havana to Key West with cigars — yeah, I can’t really say how that happened.”
LOL
