This week Et Alors, a French production company that specializes in UAVs, strapped a Canon D5 (we think) to a octocopter and set it free inside of Paris’ legendary, rapidly decaying Beaux-Arts masterpiece. It’s an incredible video—and not only because of the three-axis stabilized footage (which is so smooth it almost looks fake).
The 116-year-old building, which was built to house the 1890 World’s Fair, dwarfs everything around it; in fact, it’s still the largest glass-and-steel building ever built. Its glass vaults reach 150 feet above the ground floor, necessary to light the exhibitions and events below in an age just before electricity (and semi-plagiarized from London’s Crystal Palace). No one—except for the 1890s construction workers who installed it—has ever been able to look down on the Palais floor from its ceiling. So an emergent technology from this century is helping us explore a building designed to showcase cutting-edge technology from the last.
via Gizmodo
July 16, 2013
