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Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world

Boris Written on May 26, 2008 – 7:40 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

Biggets drawing in the worldArtist Erik Nordenankar came up with a brilliant idea: make the worlds largest drawing.

He built a GPS tracker suitcase and sent it, via DHL, around the world. The GPS device recorded its location every few minutes and when the suitcase made it back after 55 days Erik plotted it on a world map. The drawing is 110664 kilometers long and stretches over 6 continents and 62 countries.

The result: (Click for a bigger picture)

The suitcase:

The movie:

UPDATED: Turns out the whole things is a fake. Thanks Roy!

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4 comments/trackbacks to “Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world”

  1. May 26, 2008: O maior desenho do mundo | Serendipidade - Blogando descobertas por acaso desde 2005

    [...] no NextWeb que o artista Erik Nordenankar fez o maior desenho do mundo. Ou melhor, o maior desenho e [...]

  2. By Patrick de Laive on May 26, 2008

    It looks like the DHL pilots were drunk :)

    [Reply]

  3. By David on May 26, 2008

    Looks more like a viral campaign by DHL. But a really good one.

    [Reply]

  4. By Roy Tomeij on May 28, 2008

    Hoax indeed :)

    http://www.engadget.com/2008/0.....the-world/

    [Reply]

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