On a recent trip to San Francisco, a local friend took us to Andy Goldsworthy’s Spire in the Presidio:
We had just come from a parking lot where quite a few cars were virtuously marked:
Our friend said “What we need is a drone to paint the Spire sculpture in the Palestinian flag colors.”
Let’s suppose that residents of the U.S. with a lot of community spirit did build some drones that could paint the sides of building with huge messages such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free”, “#Resist”, and “Trump is a Nazi.” It is much easier to build a spray-painting drone than a scrubbing drone, I think. How could cities and building owners defend against virtuous painting drone owners/operators?
(Though moderately rich by average American standards and blessed with a garage at home, our friend who lives in SF drives a 22-year-old car for fear that anything nicer will attract thieves.)
What is equally easy to do is to crate a drone which paints over graffiti. Most cities that have successfully eliminated graffiti do it this way – just paint over it the same day, then there is no motivation to do it.
SK: But what if the graffiti drone paints over windows as part of its Free Palestine message?