distance, you won t see that it s actually not that high quality. the drawing takes flight with the help of a motion capture suit. it has sensors on it and can transform real movement into digital movement. i started connecting those movements to the digital copy of yarno. and what about that second camera angle from yarno s helmet? we hired a team, which had some kind of a helicopter, a helicopter with a camera under it. and after i started manipulating the images in my computer. on march 19th, 2012, with the piece complete, floris, akayarno, uploads his high-flying adventure. within 24 hours it really started to get viral. who doesn t want to be able to fly? like that s the dream. this is the closest thing to being a bird that you can imagine. unlike some of the viral videos you see, it is not preying on fears, it s preying on hopes.
how can i get these wings? i want to be able to fly myself. people started to e-mail us, wanting to buy the wings and to see if they could get the designs. yarno started to get on the news and abc news, bbc, and everyone started blogging about it. our goal was not to create a hoax, but to tell a story that people would like and follow even though it s not true. there were some people really, really hoping this to be true and they were very disappointed afterward. floris sings like a canary to the press admitting the video is a fake. we thought it was not fair to give interviews as if it was true. but some just won t accept the truth and they let the conspiracy theories fly. i got a couple e-mails from people saying please admit that they paid you to say it s a hoax. because the u.s. government doesn t want these wings to be reality otherwise people are going to fly from mexico to the