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biggest drawing in the world
Topic Started: May 25 2008, 08:27 PM (161 Views)
bachophile
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With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet,” writes Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar on his website for the project, appropriately named http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com. “My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.” The resulting drawing’s dimensions are 40,076,592 by 40,009,153 meters – which are about the dimensions of the Earth’s surface, if it could be rolled out as a canvas.

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Bernard
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How novel, and a bit intriguing I will admit.

It brings to mind this letter to the editor of the NYTimes several years ago. ..

To the Editor:

I am all in favor of spectacular and expensive art. However, the article "If You Wow Them, They Will Come" by Elizabeth Hayt [Feb, 18] brought to mind a marvelous anecdote about the poet-filmmaker-artist Jean Cocteau. He was taken in the 1950's by a friend to see the first Paris showing of an American Cinemascope film. As they were leaving the theater, the friend asked Cocteau for his reaction, to which he replied: "The next time I write a poem, I shall use a larger sheet of paper."

Robert Keil
Manhattan

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A very innovative idea!!!
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Very cool!
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Cool! I thought before I had read it all that he had done that voyage himself. That would have been cool too, only there is a lot of ocean and he'd have spent a long time doodling between Iceland and Scandinavia.
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