Another position artist emerges from woodwork, traces face via GPS

Get 'em in quick folks, your 15 minutes are almost up. As position art has skyrocketed in popularity over the past week or so (it seems, anyway), we've found yet another artist who has drawn his face via GPS. Best of all, this one actually looks the closet to legitimate, considering all the flaws and erratic lines that we'd truly expect to surface when traveling with a tracker. Essentially, Antti Laitinen drew an image of himself onto a map (numerous times in a variety of locales), and then proceeded to walk the lines that were drawn -- navigator in tow. The end result is what you see above, which is nothing nearly as elegant as prior "attempts" that we've seen, but likely a much better representation of how the process works. Masterful work, Mr. Laitinen.

[Via Wired]

[fred @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:14AM]

I did a giant connect-the-dots position art image of a bear using stars in the northern sky.

I want my Engadget post too.

[JJV @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:58AM]

I walked around in a circle then traced it on google maps, where is my sotry?

[JJV @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:59AM]

story*

[BigDaddyM @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:09PM]

I did this same thing with an Etch-e-Sketch and I didn;t get a post...
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[j_g_puff @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:46AM]

YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT! HE'S PUSHING BACK THE BOUNDRIES OF ART! HE'S CHALLENGING OUR PERSPECTIVES OF TECHNOLOGY! HE'S...oh, alright. He's just made a squiggly picture of himself. *sigh*.

I thought I could defend him, but I can't. It's just too pointless and crap.

[ReggieXuk @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:19AM]

Things get old real fast on ther internet.

[Marcus @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:19AM]

closest*

[Rohit Kapur @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:35AM]

Typos are the heart and soul of Engadget. :)

[one2wonder @ Jun 3rd 2008 9:07AM]

Caught my eye too :-)

[monkfishbandana @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:27AM]

I hope this whole 'position art' thing doesn't kick off.

It's unbelievably boring.

[Samboini @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:50PM]

Maybe, but i'm interested to know why his mother had sex with a biro. He looks so squiggly.

[Steve @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:42AM]

When are people going to get more creative and do more Spook Country-style position art? Forget walking around with your GPS device to map out shapes on the ground - before the days of GPS this used to be called orienteering and every boy scout worth his badges knew how to do it.

[WarMouse @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:52AM]

I am not worth my badges.

[foreign noise @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:59AM]

There is a fascinating piece of GPS art at the V&A museum in London, which goes way beyond this in terms of good art as far as I am concerned. http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/45327-popup.html

It is a piece by Jeremy Wood from 2005, 'All London Tracks', where the artist tracked all his movements in London over a five year period, and representing each jorney as a thin line (red when flying).

This tells so much more about the person than a figurative self protrait!!

[Josh L @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:01AM]

That picture may "go way beyond" this one, but it's still nowhere near "good art".

It's not art at all. It's a map. A crappy map.

[Matt @ Jun 2nd 2008 8:01AM]

Dude, that guys face is jacked up!!!

[TheTribune @ Jun 2nd 2008 8:20AM]

Actually, it's someone trying to turn the whole country into a transmutation circle.

[Rick @ Jun 2nd 2008 8:27AM]

If I had a dog or cat with a face that ugly I would shave its butt and make it walk backwards.

[Low Ranked @ Jun 2nd 2008 1:09PM]

I'm fairly certain that touching your pet in that manner is not only unhealthy, but most likely banned in the country in which you reside.

Meow means NO!

[g3n3tix @ Jun 2nd 2008 8:31AM]

Oh my ! It's Jesus !

[ChrisM @ Jun 2nd 2008 8:56AM]

Okay, these GPS drawing stories are getting old. When you get past the technology behind the drawing, all your left with is a crappy, MS paint figure that looks like it was drawn by a 5 year old. Wake me up when someone manages to create a 10-bit color representation of the last supper with this tech.

[Eric Pell @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:36AM]

Please stop posting these. It's pretty stupid.

[Fernando @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:47AM]

Wow its wonderful how people love to waist time and money. I hope this was done on a bicycle or something considering how expensive gas is now a days. It's great to see how a lot of people are not feeling the economic pinch, as I surely am.

[Fernando @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:48AM]

*waste

[jvcalin @ Jun 2nd 2008 10:42AM]

I just drew an ugly picture of my face, and boy my arms are tired!

[Iridium @ Jun 2nd 2008 10:46AM]

In college someone rode a stationary bike for 12 hours with nothing but a pair of underwear on and a fake rubber turkey on his head. They called that art too.

Don't get me started on the guy that wore a lobster costume and lived in a hut he built himself on the side of the art building for a month.

How about you post a FAA airline route map. That actually looks like art.

[Jaque-o @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:00AM]

try the Mona Lisa next, this doesnt intrigue me =/

[Jaque-o @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:01AM]

does it still resemble you? :O

[m gee @ Jun 2nd 2008 11:23AM]

*sigh*...what a disappointment...
I figured this involved a GPS with resolution good enough to allow the "artist" to just lie down and run it all over his damn face to make this silly etch-a-sketch mess...
i guess the CIA is still keeping that one under wraps

[hoernchen @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:06PM]

Parkinson's + MS Paint.

[Matt @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:29PM]

Insert Michael J. Fox comments below

[Low Ranked @ Jun 2nd 2008 1:10PM]

Someone just came out.

[Magallanes @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:21PM]

Epic fail!.

[Californian @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:35PM]

Well, I went on a flight from L.A. to New York and I had my GPS-enabled laptop with me, so I plotted it, and, after coming back, it looked like this:
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!!! Cool huh! That's real art. I bet this guys looks like a baby drew it now, doesn't it. Oh wait, it already did.

[nxtiak @ Jun 2nd 2008 6:08PM]

Looks like Muhammad Ali on a computer with a mouse and MS Paint.

[Greg Baz @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:19AM]

So its a GPS based Etch-A-Sketch drawing.