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Monday, May 26, 2008

Interesting Art

This guy made a self portrait using a jury rigged long distance GPS module in a suitcase and mapped the signals of the package as it traveled on very specific flight paths to create the largest portrait ever. The whole story, in detail, is at the URL below.







http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx

-update (May 28th) ...so Apparently this is a fake...I did have suspicions, not because it wasn't technically feasible but because it is ridiculously expensive. But hey, people have spent money on stupider things. Also, the fact that DHL was in on the joke sort of helped it look somewhat legit.

Also, this is a bit of an afterthought, Banksy is worth checking out. He's a semi-anonymous British graffiti artist. Saw one of his pieces on a sexual health clinic in Bristol, it was quite good.
Personally though, his CCTV piece seems the most 'on point' work he's done, in Britain at least.
The pervasiveness of CCTV's in England is pretty absurd. I couldn't help but think about the Orwellian nature of it all.

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