About That Drone Porn…

Ok. If you read this site and follow drone news you may have noticed a disconnect over the last couple days. A video was published online earlier this week by Brooklyn-based Ghost+Cow Films. It’s called Drone Boning, it features wide shots of people having sex in the sweeping vistas of the San Francisco Bay area and we didn’t publish it.

For better or worse, we are publishing it now. Have a look: (NSFW, obviously).

If you’re like me, your reaction is now, “Hm.”

I mean, I get it. It’s supposed to be a commentary on the rise of  drone technology and the implications it has for personal privacy/voyeurism. Sort of like an I Spy for the internet age.

The whole thing is shot with a drone and the Ghost+Cow guys are clearly professionals, but it kind of left with with a feeling of “so what?”

It’s not quite political and it’s not quite parody (which, granted, sounds exactly how an artist would want to be described in 2014). It isn’t really news and it isn’t overly innovative. It simply… is.

That is the reason we didn’t immediately post Drone Boning on Dronelife.

GhostCow’s Brandon LaGanke told Motherboard, “We wanted to explore the whole idea of drone privacy and strikes—this idea of ‘make porn, not war. It started as a kind of funny commentary on privacy and voyeurism, but it quickly became a conceptual grounding…The plan was to take beautiful landscapes and just put people fucking in them.”

So, mission accomplished, I guess?

Drone Boning is certainly one of the most unique and well-crafted aerial videos I have ever watched and the title is the definition of click bait (gotchya!). But it seems to be another empty entry that exists simply to lend credence to rule 34.

But hey, maybe we are wrong. If you feel we missed something, let us know in the comments.

Or lighten the mood by watching this video of puppies chasing a drone in a park.