Above: A group of climbers on top of the Matterhorn look up for their dronie.
Every new technology creates its own art.
Front-facing cameras on smartphones led to an explosion of selfies, and now, drone-mounted cameras are producing another kind of self portrait: The dronie.
A dronie is a self-portrait taken with a drone (an autonomous or remote-controlled flying vehicle). It came to my attention when Path founder Dave Morin posted the amazing portrait of a group of climbers atop the Matterhorn, above. I’m not sure if Morin himself is one of the climbers in this shot — he has said in the past that “the mountains are my soul,” so you might expect to find him on top of one of Europe’s tallest mountains, but the photo he posted was uncredited, so I can’t tell. (I’ll update this post if I can get the specifics.)
Blogger Jason Kottke had a nice roundup of video dronies in April, starting off with a lovely shot of Amit Gupta and friends (including NYT writer Nick Bilton) on top of Bernal Hill in San Francisco.
Here’s a dronie by Keith Hopkin (it claims to be the first dronie on Vine).
World's first Vine from a drone vine.co/v/Mg1XUPhbZdp @vineapp @hayekd #dronie—
Keith Hopkin (@KeithHopkin) May 12, 2014
Not every dronie is a video — some are stills. Here’s a staged vacation dronie that the WSJ shot to accompany a story on dronies.
Let's go fly a drone: the best vacation pics come from above. by @geoffreyfowler on.wsj.com/1jiyVTk (WSJ) http://t.co/cwp0F1lMN0—
(@WSJD) May 19, 2014
The spring show at ITP, a technology school within NYU in New York, featured a “drone booth” where people could take self-portraits using a drone.
And here’s a nice dronie from the Painted Hills in Oregon.
For more dronies, just check out the hashtag #dronie on Twitter.
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One step beyond #selfies: Here come the #dronies
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