In this oral history interview independent scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto talks with artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of El Taller Boricua, Marcos Dimas. El Taller Boricua/The Puerto Rican Workshop was founded in 1970 and is an artist-run nonprofit art gallery and multidisciplinary cultural space in New York's East Harlem. Conducted June 24, 2011.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18956195 The Occucopter is actually a modified Parrot AR 300, a four-rotor, remote-controlled helicopter available for $300 at Walmart or Amazon or the like. It's the same machine The Daily uses. Al Jazeera also has one they're kicking around the office. As the Village Voice reported last week, artist Mike Brown donated the machine to Pool in order to better cover the Occupy protests. Pool and a friend modified its software to provide a constant stream, and Pool said they're working on a modification that would make it controllable from anywhere in the world.