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Flying Tin Deep Pan Folly (2013)

Date: 2013
Medium: HD-Video Stereo Audio
Duration: 2min 58sec

Flying Tin Deep Pan Folly (2013) presents a pepperoni pizza covered US military reaper drone, flying around an a photo-simulation of Pyramid Lake, Nevada which was used in Apple promotional materials around 2010. The lake image was used as the desktop wallpaper for the first iPad launch. It is said that the lake is haunted by the ghosts of ‘water babies’. The title is related to the public domain music used in the video which is a colonial-vibe Tin Pan Alley song from the early 20th Century.

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