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Abstruse (adj., ahb-STROOS)
Difficult to understand, especially due to obscurity, like saying that things are coming up Stendhal today.
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New York City Drone Film Festival
Yes, this is a thing—a second year of a thing, to be exact. The New York City Drone Film Festival features films shot entirely on drones. They've released a montage with footage from this year's Official Selections, and it's really, really good:
In some ways, the collective effect of these clips makes them stronger. We truly get a sense of the camera-on-a-string capabilities of drones. The footage is all excellent (a personal favorite is the crazy corkscrew dive around 1:40 as well as the dusky running sequence around 1:05).
Even better, the NYCDFF website has all the winning videos available to watch online. Enjoy!
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