Designs made in snow and sand with the use of rakes, then photographed with a camera attached to a kite.---
Japanese crop-art. Created by planting different colored rice in with their normal green colored rice.---
Crop circle in Wiltshire, England. It measures 200 feet in diameter.---
There are more examples of interesting and creative crop circles here
The ones I posted are my favorites.
I think these are so impressive to me because I once attempted to mow a design into my yard. I had seen a book with tons of different designs that people had created in their lawns. My attempt to create a sunshine upon my parents lawn (needless to say) failed horribly. I can not imagine the level of dedication and planning that goes into one of these creations.
This concept ties to what we were talking about in class a few weeks ago--with are tying to other sujects such as chemistry. In this case it ties to geometry. These crop circles all have to be planned on a small scale and then expanded to fit these gigantic fields. I think the japanese rice art is particularly impressive because it has to be planted in that orientation!
It's really cool how they thought of taking pictures of the art in the snow using cameras attached to kites...very cool never would have thought of that in a million years!!!
ReplyDeleteCrop circles and the like are really fascinating to me... especially the ancient ones that were made without the use of any technology or any way of knowing what they actually looked like from above. Have you heard of the Nazca Lines in Peru? If not, you should check it out. Incredible.
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