Meet the Street Artist Who’s Wanted by the NYPD for Punking the Police with Fake Drone Ads
His name is ‘Essam’ and he’s a 29-year-old art school grad from Maine, who served in Iraq as a “geo-spatial analyst”, and has put up posters like the one above all over New York. It shows drones being used to police regular people in an Orwellian world… with the NYPD logo plastered all over it, as if to endorse it. The NYPD wants him arrested, he wants to let people know the scariness of drones.
YES!
“regular people” though? What exactly does that mean in this context—that the people being attacked my drones overseas...
Now this is modern art at its finest- all glossy, commercial undertones. The point of modern art is to (with luck) cause...