Comment by pcthrowaway
2 days ago
> Based on the type of grass and the direction of the wind.
There was a scene in High Potential (murder-of-the-week sleuth savant show) where a crime was solved by (in part) the direction the wind was blowing in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZOzck4bBI
In 2017, the Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf (and two others artists from a trio called "LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner") put up a flag in an undisclosed location as part of their "HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US" work [1].
> On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location", with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky. [...], the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, flight tracking, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, a 4chan user took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBeouf,_Rönkkö_%26_Turner#HEW...
> other techniques
including honking a horn and seeing if the camera picked it up.
We did this once when trying to find someone's house who was transmitting on a CB. it was my first transmitter hunt and i learned 2 lessons: people don't like it when you honk your horn to see if you can hear it through their microphone (but really it was to see if they said 'is that you honking, what a jerk'); and secondly, if the person switches to a handheld transmitter when they think you're getting close, it completely throws you off.