GPS,
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.


















Awesome...
Looks like an acorn man with antenna
Sheesh. this is got older faster than the doom joke....
honeslty this is news??
Engadget you will do anything for a view clicks
Artistic, eh?
but...why?
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...
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I can't believe you guys haven't covered stavros yet... He IS the master of position art:
http://theworldismycanvas.com/
Wow that was hilarious
N82 ad?
The world is my canvas is copyrighted by Nokia?
dude he's a baller :)
gayest story ever
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.
My judgement is that the readers would rather hear more 3G iPhone news...that also has GPS...
dont worry
if som1 will do that with the iphone it will be "Breaking news" :p
and featured story
And a top commented story.
Which would be all of your faults.
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.
I'll be drawing the worlds largest titties...
There are actually huge real drawings of penises on google maps I understand.
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?
eh, after stavros and sportstracker gps drawings, leave it to engadget to report the only unrelated to nokia
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 :)
is Stavros uncle Jesse from "Full House"?
Ummm... Who cares? This was an original idea when it was not done the first time.
http://savetoby.com/
'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.
wtf? that is a rubbish rabbit only worthy of being stuck to a fridge door or something defo not engadget
In other word. Nobody care.
Is that a rabbit turd or a tail? I can't make up my mind.
OMG! WOW! HOLY SH*T! This is just amazing.
what, is this the "in" thing now? seriously, this is getting old.
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.
Richard Long was doing this sort of thing long before GPS existed
http://www.richardlong.org/
The art on that site is much more interesting than any of this crap. Thank you.
I have a stool that looks like a smiling man's face.
It's in the gallerie che esie en Paris.
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.
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?
That's not what GPS is for!
Just kidding, it's for drawing rabbits.
Would that be a time traveling bunny? (stretching for a LOST reference...)
Windows -> all programs -> accessories -> paint. anyone?
He was walking with Harvey, and this is the path he lead him to.
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...
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.
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).
Im not going to lie, GPS art is really uninteresting. I hope this isnt going to turn into some trend.
This is such a waste of time, I'm not even going to waste my time commenting on......D'OH!!
Wjat a waste of an article. Engadget is becoming the suck with crappy articles like this.
"...any edits that occurred had no huge bearing on the outcome of the piece."
Uh...please define "huge."