"The Drone Shadows are a series of installations, comprising of the outline of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone: a 1:1 representation conveying both the physical reality, and the apparent invisibility, of drone aircraft.

"You can draw drones too.

"The first Drone Shadow was drawn by myself and Einar Sneve Martinussen in London, in January 2012. Since then, I have painted more in Istanbul, Brighton, and Washington DC. A commissioned shadow in Brisbane in 2013 was censored by the state government, but others have been created in Sao Paolo,
Detroit and elsewhere. This handbook is a guide to creating more.

"Why would you want to draw a drone?

"Drones are used in wars and covert operations worldwide, by many countries. They are used to surveil, to fight, to assassinate, to police, to deter migrants - and to study hurricanes and fight forest fires. But they remain largely invisible, in part due to the manner of their operation, flying for long periods high in the atmosphere, and in part because the political motivations for their use prefer to remain obscure."

– James Bridle

[from Drone Shadow Handbook, 2013]

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The Blessed Angels by Toi Derricotte

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https://www.poetica.fr/poeme-50/apollinaire-emigrant-de-landor-road/

L'Émigrant de Landor Road

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Sick-bed reading: Sailing Back in Time: A Nostalgic Voyage on Canada's West Coast (1996) by Maria Coffey

(I wish I'd met the late Allen and Sharie Farrell, aboard the junk-rigged China Cloud. There was a time, maybe five or six years ago, when the vessel was up on the hard and in desperate need of restoration. I considered making an offer for it — but it deserved more refined shipwright skills than I'll ever have. It's now being brought back to life by a family member: https://www.edengrace.ca/china-cloud Make a donation, if you can!)

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My son's apartment has become a sick-bay, the four of us laid low with another flu-like virus: On Friday, I managed to get through an hour-long call in Italian with a local immigration lawyer, propped up with paracetamol and black tea. Since then, I've been tunnelled so deep within a duvet that (if I'm lucky) I might be smothered as I sleep.

In the meantime, I'm reading Harry Partch: Hobo Composer by S. Andrew Granade.

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Just finished "Hellboy in Hell". It's my second read, which is surprising to me, since I remembered the main beats of the previous volumes, but this final arc fled from my memory. I suppose this is quite appropriate given this story. Great story, I'm glad I took the time to revisit the series. The amalgamation of monster of the week issues mixed with occult and lovecraftian themes really work well with the unusual storytelling structure.

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Récolte du jour. Je sais déjà que "Les sentiers de Recouvrance" m'accompagnera à Brest en fin de mois. "Quitter les ponts d'automne" de la même autrice était un roman magnifique.

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Last night's reading: Jazz Revolutionary: The Life and Music of Eric Dolphy by Jonathon Grasse.

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