Today I've been thinking about aeroplanes, something I do often, but late last night I watched a doco on UFO's. This followed on nicely from a discussion earlier in the day about drones. I am facinated by foo fighters and aircraft, for me the former is a conspiracy and the latter is the topic of many childhood memories. The idea of tracking and tracing is contstant in my artmaking, and more recently has included the use of satellites. There are many devices and mechanisms that we, as bodies/vehicles can employ to guide and map our everyday movements, but you have to wonder what else out there is doing this for us without our knowledge...the conspiralogist within me contemplates! In the doco it was said that the Black Bird (Lockheed SR-71), an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnasaince aircraft, did continual fly-bys over Russia during the Cold War for ten years before the Russians detected it on their radar. There must be filing cabinets full of secret archives of aerial maps hidden in the desert regions of Area 51.
No comments:
Post a Comment