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Tell Cris Benton to go fly a kite. Hell return with breathtaking photographs taken from seemingly impossible vantage points. As a young architect, Chris wanted sharp images of his buildings upper reaches, so he pioneered the art/science of of aerial kite photography. Now a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, Chris is still a leader in the aerial kite photography community, constantly developing new ways to rig remotely controlled cameras to customized kites for stunning results. Also, see the centuries-old technique of using kites to lift people in the air! Watch the clip, and check out Chris website http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/index.html

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  • This is AMAZING. Some of the shots are stunning. But it's decided - i'm going to make a camera kite!!

  • yes, its called a paraglider

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  • Try Quattro-Byte search on YouTube for a stable cost effective platform for aerial photography. Affordable! Efficient! Elegant.

  • @taxiuniversum if it's too windy for a tethered balloon, it's too windy for a kite. if it's not windy enough for a kite, even better for a balloon. enough helium to lift a dslr and balloon would actually cost well under $100, but to hell with helium. hydrogen is cheap and easy to produce and so is hot air.

  • @ creepyloner1979:

    Yea, right. Except for the fact that of course balloons WILL NOT work in wind (or be exactly as "unstable" as a kite would be then). Plus, just one single filling of helium for a balloon capable of lifting a SLR will cost you hundreds of dollars. If you have that kind of money, settling for a rc-helikopter would actually be much better. I like the idea of doing this with a kite - it has something poetic, aside of all its other advantages (low-tech and inexpensive).

  • great! how about building one for me? 50$? uh?

  • would suck if ur kite crashed.

  • An artist.

  • OMG. I'd never thought of that. What a wonderful idea!

  • brilliant ! 

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