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Central Park will not witness a New Year’s Eve drone show this time. The show has been canceled following the drone accident in Orlando, Florida on December 21, 2024.
Previously, there used to be a fireworks show at Central Park but it was canceled by Mayor Eric Adams considering the drought-like conditions. In its place, a drone show was set to take place organized by entertainment agency Sky Elements.
Reportedly, the company will not put together the drone show at Dallas’ Reunion Tower. As per a report by CBS Texas, the company has backed out keeping in mind the safety after the drone mishap in Florida.
The drone show in Central Park was supposed to be held along with the Midnight run organized by the New York Road Runners. As per Gothamist, Road Runners spokesperson Crystal Howard explained that due to timing constraints, they could not go back to fireworks or secure an alternative vendor.
She mentioned plans to enhance the event with on-course features designed to surprise and delight participants, such as additional DJs and possibly some creative analog light displays.
The drone show in Orlando, Florida was going fine with 25,000 onlookers when suddenly the aerial vehicles started falling from the sky. One of the drones fell on a seven-year-old boy named Alexander Lumsden who was rushed to the hospital where he had an emergency heart surgery.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was investigating the incident in cooperation with Sky Elements, the drone provider, to find out what led the drones to malfunction.
A drone show named ‘Franchise Freedom’ was held in Central Park last year
More than 1000 lit-up drones flew across the sky over Central Park in October 2023, which was called 'Franchise Freedom'. As per Pix11 News, viewers called it a choreographed ballet of lights while others named it a group of fireflies. A visitor called it a terrific community event as it helped,
“To get everybody out on a nice night today. It was calming. I think this is something that we really need in this city today. It was beautiful, it was artistic and I really think it may be the future of public events in New York City.”
The Central Park show mimicked a murmuration of starlings. Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta from Studio Drift were behind the ideation. They said the show signified a relationship between humans and nature.
The artists described the artwork as a poetic representation of humanity's effort to live independently within a society governed by rules and conventions. While speaking to the news outlet, Lonneke Gordijn said:
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“If you observe bird swarming or murmuration, you wonder are birds free or are they bound to rules in order to not bump into each other and of course, it’s the same thing, it’s the question, ‘what is freedom?’ We are bound to rules.”
While the drone patterns might seem random and evoke a sense of freedom, the swarm's behavior was meticulously orchestrated and guided by numerous rules and survival instincts.
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