Posts Tagged ‘art’

27 May 2008

Using GPS To Draw Biggest Picture In The World

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Artist Erik Nordenankar has drawn a huge self-portrait using the power of Global Positioning Satellites. He put a GPS tracker into a flightcase with an extended battery and got DHL to ship it to specific locations.

When he got it home, 55 days later, he downloaded the data of where it had been and plotted it on a map to ‘draw’ the portrait.

Great advert for DHL who did the transportation to very specific lattitudes and longitudes…

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3 Dec 2007

This is really beautiful

Quick. Go to Wildcard.jp.org. I don’t even know how I found it. It just appeared in my browser playing that weird music. No idea what it’s about but it’s really lovely to use. I recommend really letting rip.

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