Biggest Drawing in the World Created Using a GPS Briefcase & DHL

posted by Scott Beale on Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Artist Erik Nordenankar created a portrait of himself drawn on the Earth using DHL to deliver a briefcase containing a GPS device that tracked it’s movement around the globe which was traced to create the biggest drawing in the world.

This video shows how Erik created the drawing using his briefcase “pen and paper”.

UPDATE: On his website, the artist admits that the entire project was made up.

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groovehouse 05/25/2008 06:01 PM 1 point
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I call shenanigans. What plane flies in loops like the ones that "drew" the hair on this self portrait?

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James Lamb 05/25/2008 06:13 PM 1 point
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The drawing displayed may not be the actual track, but his original drawing for tracking directions? If you look at the shipping directions, he's played quite loosely with directions -- numerous points are not cities, towns, or islands; only latitude and longitude coordinates. Will DHL actually drop a package off for you at coordinates in the middle of the ocean, off any main route?

If they weren't sponsoring it for advertising purposes, they certainly wouldn't fly a loop over the ocean for you, unless, of course, you paid private jet charter prices.

Well, he's got his 5 minutes of fame (and maybe some additional sales, and definitely DHL sponsorship), but it would have had a little more integrity if he had done something only using real DHL destinations.

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http://www.think-local.com

Deb on the Rocks 05/25/2008 06:25 PM 1 point
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Insanely cool. Too much math for me to master, though.

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toby 05/25/2008 06:53 PM 1 point
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i call fake too, those loops are just not sitting very well with me.

great idea, but sadly leaves a bit of a bitter aftertaste

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Erik Nordenankar Jr. 05/26/2008 05:35 AM 1 point
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i did the same thing!

check it out:
http://i29.tinypic.com/sputc7.jpg

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George Coghill 05/26/2008 01:04 PM 1 point
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I have to agree that doing this with just the actual DHL destinations would have been much more impressive. All the loops definitely required some special treatment & cooperation from DHL. Getting the package picked up from the place it was just delivered would have been easy, but finding strangers across the globe to cooperate would have been a challenge. Especially with a briefcase looking like a movie prop bomb, particularly the contents!

As it is, it looks like he just got DHL to carry him and his briefcase all around to arbitrary points on the globe, some of which were close to standard travel paths. Still impressive, but seeing him work within the consumer constraints of the DHL delivery system would have been more so.

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Robin 05/26/2008 02:49 PM 1 point
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Forget the loops -- what about the realities of GPS? A GPS unit needs to be able to "see" the sky to record its position, right? The briefcase didn't look rigged up to accommodate that -- and even if it was, it's still stuck on the inside of a DHL cargo plane, right?

Total shenanigans!

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Biggest Drawing in the World Created Using a GPS Briefcase & DHL

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