A GPS drawing so large it becomes 3D art

[Merlion]

Click into the link for a video of this very large drawing that wraps around the earth.

GPS helps draw biggest painting in the world (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/14903/15927/gps-dhl-giant-painting-project.phtml)

26 May 2008. An artist not content with the average sized canvas has drawn the largest painting in the world using the world as his canvas.

Erik Nordenankar, painted the self portrait by putting a GPS device in a briefcase and then giving DHL a very detailed list of instructions on where to take it.

55 days later, and a picture measuring 40,076 x 40,009 miles was created. ...

[underfoot]

Thats just too bloody clever.

[fritchie]

I suppose this qualifies as conceptual art. Since a trip entirely around the world is about 25,000 miles at most, the "drawing" is greater than the size of the Earth, if it were unwrapped. Anybody know what DHL is? (The article is British.)

[cheesepaws]

I think it is a shipping Company like FedEX.

[sculptor]

circa late 1960s
an artist, think his name was mason williams?
primarily a musician...wrote "classical gas"

had a coffee table book..."greyhound bus book" was a life size picture of a greyhound bus all folded and folded and folded and folded and folded... up

then he had a sky writer draw a stem and leaves and as the sun reached the top of the stem snapped a picture of "the worlds largest sunflower"

had a lyric "... and my shoulders had to shrug, as i crawled beneath the rug, and re tuned my piano"

whither hence?


DHL
yes, shipping company, their trucks are red and yellow

[Arrow]

"The artist has added a line to the bottom of his webpage stating "This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time." And DHL confirmed that Nordenenkar never went any further than a warehouse the company allowed him to film in."

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/artist-says-he.html

[rderr.com]

Shame that it did not really get done. Reminds me of a New Yorker carton, a drawing of the Earth from outer space with an enormous historical marker--Einstein lived here. Sculptor, I still like the sunflower--I'm sure Vincent would have gotten a kick out of it.

Robert

[greglock]

So is mine still the biggest at 56 feet?

SHINGLING FOOL (http://www.greglock.com/show.php?name=superimpose.jpg)

Greg Lock
www.greglock.com (http://www.greglock.com)

[grommet]

Hey greg lock, I don't get the fascination with the GPS stuff. However, the rest of your stuff is pretty cool, far surpassing bogus GPS boy. I enjoyed your obscure materials & what the virtual environment yielded.

[Landseer]

I suppose this qualifies as conceptual art. Since a trip entirely around the world is about 25,000 miles at most, the "drawing" is greater than the size of the Earth, if it were unwrapped. Anybody know what DHL is? (The article is British.)

It's a promotion for the company, fake, no pilots are going to do all those loop-de-loops for hundreds of ocean miles all over the world like that.

DHL is a shipping company, and one who LOST my shipment last week, a 37# concrete sculpture I shipped with a second one to a client, one was delivered the other simply vanished.
I opened a FedEx account

[chrissommer]

that would be craZY TO DO.

chris
http://www.chrissommer.com

[frogvalleyforge]

Gimmicky at best.

[Ferguson]

You realy don't need to bother with the shipping companies if you have access to a satellite equipped for surveillance photography along with a good photogrammetry program like PhotoTop but for big stuff. By mailing black dot targets to very specific locations with placement instructions the satellite could record the dots and the computer program would then translate this into the image in a 3D CAD program. In all likelyhood the image could be laser cut or inkjet printed onto globes so the artist could benefit from the sale of multiples and more collectors could enjoy the piece since few people can afford viewing it from outer space. Or, we could just think about it, which would probably be just as good.