---
title: "Your Day Could Use 3 Minutes of Mind-Bendingly Cool Drone Video"
description: "The best of the NYC Drone Film Festival, in one hard-hitting montage."
date: "2016-06-09"
modified: "2016-06-09"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/3908/your-day-could-use-3-minutes-of-mind-bendingly-cool-drone-video"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Drones"
---

# Your Day Could Use 3 Minutes of Mind-Bendingly Cool Drone Video

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If you're reading this right now, odds are good you aren't the President of the United States. You're probably not a soldier in the heat of a firefight, you're likely not a surgeon in the midst of an angioplasty, and presumably, you're not [an NHRA funny car driver caught in the middle of an explosion](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/3902/watch-this-nhra-funny-car-explode-around-its-driver>).

Which means that whatever you're doing right now, you can put it on hold for three minutes while you watch this compilation of jaw-dropping drone video footage.

Culled from some of the best films appearing at [the 2016 New York City Drone Film Festival](<https://www.nycdronefilmfestival.com/>), it's a fast-cutting montage of the sort of footage cinematographers could only dream about before the advent of these miniature flying robot cameramen. From a vantage point usually reserved for gods and eagles, the camera's eye swoops across the sky in these video clips, soaring over wonders man-made and natural alike. Buildings crumble, snowboarders soar, and volcanoes erupt—all while the viewer observes from an omniscient, out-of-body perspective. It's beautiful, enthralling, and even a little terrifying from time to time.

https://youtube.com/embed/jnFHotataNI

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)