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.
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posted Jun 2nd 2008 7:01AM
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.
I walked around in a circle then traced it on google maps, where is my sotry?
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I did this same thing with an Etch-e-Sketch and I didn;t get a post...
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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.
Things get old real fast on ther internet.
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Typos are the heart and soul of Engadget. :)
Caught my eye too :-)
I hope this whole 'position art' thing doesn't kick off.
It's unbelievably boring.
Maybe, but i'm interested to know why his mother had sex with a biro. He looks so squiggly.
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.
I am not worth my badges.
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!!
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.
Dude, that guys face is jacked up!!!
Actually, it's someone trying to turn the whole country into a transmutation circle.
If I had a dog or cat with a face that ugly I would shave its butt and make it walk backwards.
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!
Oh my ! It's Jesus !
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.
I just drew an ugly picture of my face, and boy my arms are tired!
Please stop posting these. It's pretty stupid.
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.
*waste
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.
try the Mona Lisa next, this doesnt intrigue me =/
does it still resemble you? :O
Parkinson's + MS Paint.
Insert Michael J. Fox comments below
*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
Someone just came out.
Epic fail!.
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.
Looks like Muhammad Ali on a computer with a mouse and MS Paint.
So its a GPS based Etch-A-Sketch drawing.