Giant bunny formed from GPS path

First things first: considering the huge amount of press garnered by a recent position art scam, this here could indeed be just another spoof to get your hopes up. That being said, we're pretty sure no one with any level of decency would do such a vile thing on Easter Sunday, which is precisely when the above bunny was purportedly created from waltzing about with a Magellan GPS and a digital camera. The artist himself admits that what you see above is a slightly cleaned-up version of the actual path, but we're told that any edits that occurred had no huge bearing on the outcome of the piece. You be the judge.

[puma @ May 31st 2008 4:06PM]

Awesome...

[Chuckles McGee @ May 31st 2008 5:30PM]

Looks like an acorn man with antenna

[JJV @ May 31st 2008 6:03PM]

Sheesh. this is got older faster than the doom joke....

[Ben @ Jun 1st 2008 12:49AM]

honeslty this is news??
Engadget you will do anything for a view clicks

[waiownsyou @ May 31st 2008 4:07PM]

Artistic, eh?

[KEROLiUKAS @ May 31st 2008 4:08PM]

but...why?

[BigDaddyM @ May 31st 2008 7:33PM]

Look at me, I can walk in the shape of a rabbit...

Now I am on Engadget! What if I walked in teh shape of an Appple, Engadget will launch a whole new website just for me...
M

[Engadgetluvsappl @ May 31st 2008 4:10PM]

I can't believe you guys haven't covered stavros yet... He IS the master of position art:

http://theworldismycanvas.com/

[Das @ May 31st 2008 4:34PM]

Wow that was hilarious

[Jesse S @ May 31st 2008 5:14PM]

N82 ad?

[zach rattner @ May 31st 2008 5:57PM]

The world is my canvas is copyrighted by Nokia?

[Mike @ May 31st 2008 8:49PM]

dude he's a baller :)

[Will H. @ May 31st 2008 4:12PM]

FAKE! Er, actually, this one looks like it might be real. Some kid Google Maps'd his neighborhood and drew a squiggly bunny looking thing with a real GPS and made DHL and some knob look stupid.

[iEye @ May 31st 2008 4:12PM]

My judgement is that the readers would rather hear more 3G iPhone news...that also has GPS...

[Patriks7 @ May 31st 2008 4:34PM]

dont worry
if som1 will do that with the iphone it will be "Breaking news" :p

[Phoenix @ May 31st 2008 4:50PM]

and featured story

[Anthony @ May 31st 2008 6:25PM]

And a top commented story.

Which would be all of your faults.

[poopy_pants @ May 31st 2008 4:13PM]

gayest story ever

[Lloytron @ May 31st 2008 4:16PM]

Right, if this sort of thing is actually deemed noteworthy then I'm off out to draw the world's first GPS/google map penis.

[srw985 @ May 31st 2008 5:13PM]

I'll be drawing the worlds largest titties...

[Wwhat @ Jun 1st 2008 8:46AM]

There are actually huge real drawings of penises on google maps I understand.

[naceguy122 @ May 31st 2008 4:19PM]

this happened on easter sunday and engadget is just covering it? has it been available at other sources, or did it really conveniently show up right after the unbelievable one from a few days ago?

[Fernando @ May 31st 2008 4:28PM]

eh, after stavros and sportstracker gps drawings, leave it to engadget to report the only unrelated to nokia

[Engadgetluvsappl @ May 31st 2008 4:37PM]

Nope, even this guy was inspired by Stavros.

Atleast it wasn't Chris Ziegler that posted it though, otherwise it would have been stuck on Engadget Mobile :)

[strictlymacin @ Jun 1st 2008 1:41PM]

is Stavros uncle Jesse from "Full House"?

[giyad @ May 31st 2008 4:35PM]

http://savetoby.com/

[BigD145 @ May 31st 2008 4:37PM]

'Slightly' cleaned up? I'd say it was so hugely cleaned up that you might as well have just drawn it all in ArcGIS without ever setting foot outdoors. Using streets to draw things is about as simple as tracing the Mona Lisa, if the Mona Lisa were imported into MS Paint.

[MattyG @ May 31st 2008 4:38PM]

wtf? that is a rubbish rabbit only worthy of being stuck to a fridge door or something defo not engadget

[James Cameron @ May 31st 2008 4:45PM]

In other word. Nobody care.

[jacob.kazam @ May 31st 2008 4:48PM]

Ummm... Who cares? This was an original idea when it was not done the first time.

[sbrown @ May 31st 2008 4:54PM]

Is that a rabbit turd or a tail? I can't make up my mind.

[stickybit @ May 31st 2008 5:40PM]

OMG! WOW! HOLY SH*T! This is just amazing.

[boredtoday @ May 31st 2008 5:50PM]

what, is this the "in" thing now? seriously, this is getting old.

[Brad @ May 31st 2008 6:26PM]

I think it's true, seeing as it isn't too hard to walk around in the neighborhood than to make circles in the Caribbean, if you know what I mean.

[jobhosle @ May 31st 2008 6:42PM]

Richard Long was doing this sort of thing long before GPS existed
http://www.richardlong.org/

[Benny @ May 31st 2008 7:35PM]

The art on that site is much more interesting than any of this crap. Thank you.

[strictlymacin @ May 31st 2008 7:06PM]

I have a stool that looks like a smiling man's face.
It's in the gallerie che esie en Paris.

[why not the LS2LS7? @ May 31st 2008 7:08PM]

This isn't a story about GPS. GPS didn't do anything here.

The story is:

Guy walks in bunny-shaped path.

He could have done it with a regular map and traced his route after.

Crediting the GPS is like crediting the Mona Lisa to the paints Da Vinci used.

[Benny @ May 31st 2008 7:33PM]

I'm not quite sure what the buzz about these GPS drawings are. The guy walked around a bunch of roads that formed the shape of a rabbit... so what?

[Backwards People @ May 31st 2008 7:59PM]

That's not what GPS is for!

Just kidding, it's for drawing rabbits.

[Jeffrey Schrab @ May 31st 2008 8:21PM]

Would that be a time traveling bunny? (stretching for a LOST reference...)

[thebobness @ May 31st 2008 9:51PM]

Windows -> all programs -> accessories -> paint. anyone?

[jamesFF @ May 31st 2008 10:13PM]

He was walking with Harvey, and this is the path he lead him to.

[wako @ May 31st 2008 10:33PM]

stop it with this GPS art crap. The guy who made a self portrait was some what interesting because it was the whole world. But despite that it was still a lame story. But i swear if Engadget is going to report on every single person who has too much time on their hands and too much money to burn (almost $4/gallon!) then there isnt much to read here...

[kyb0sh @ May 31st 2008 11:18PM]

There is nothing innovative or original about this. If the previous DHL version had proved to be genuine it would merit some true appreciation. However this particular example is quite frankly, pretty lame. A child with a map and a few hours to spare could do better.

I don't think this warranted a posting on engadget.

[Steve Wozniak @ May 31st 2008 11:59PM]

Many years ago, on the Screen Savers show, I was asked to test a GPS that saved its map. I drove around my town to create the art. On air they displayed the map of where I had driven on the show, and were surprised to see a spelling of "FREE KEVIN" (in reference to Kevin Mitnick, who was still in prison).

[Eh @ Jun 1st 2008 12:20AM]

Im not going to lie, GPS art is really uninteresting. I hope this isnt going to turn into some trend.

[Hammond X @ Jun 1st 2008 12:35AM]

This is such a waste of time, I'm not even going to waste my time commenting on......D'OH!!

[Tim @ Jun 1st 2008 12:44AM]

Wjat a waste of an article. Engadget is becoming the suck with crappy articles like this.

[dosguy @ Jun 1st 2008 12:47AM]

"...any edits that occurred had no huge bearing on the outcome of the piece."

Uh...please define "huge."