Subscribe by EmailArtist Creates World’s Biggest Drawing Using GPS
May 27, 2008 by Geeks are Sexy | 5 comments
Artist Erik Nordenakar wanted to create something unique, the world’s biggest drawing. How did he do it? He traveled all around the world, carrying a GPS-enabled briefcase, to draw his self-portrait on a map of the world. After 55 days, he came back home and used the GPS data to finish his masterpiece. His trip brought him through 6 continents and 62 countries, covering around 70,000 miles. Video after the break.
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Very original, props to this Nordenakar guy…
is he actually that rich to have airplanes fly in circles in the middle of nowhere?
DHL aren’t all that reliable, they have a hard time delivering a package from door to door, I don’t know how they followed his coordinates so precisely :P
Actually he has now revealed that it was fake.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/artist-says-he.html
According to the same website it is fake and never happened: http://www.biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx
“This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time”
My friend, LostBob, who is a telecom engineer, sent me an email detailing how it would be impossible to do this the way it was described. Anyony can doodle on a may. I am shocked at the stupidy of the geedsaresexy authors.