Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. First, he identified on a map the route he would need to drive to spell out the message. He put a GPS device in his car to trace the route he would follow...A big hat tip to Chris at Cynical-C for pointing out that "he used Interstates, GPS and the internet which were all government funded projects..."
Newcomen, unlike previous GPS artists, actually traveled the lines he traced on the map. He used a GPS logger (Qstarz BT-Q1000X) to “ink” the message. Starting his trip in Marshall, Texas, he turned on the device when he wanted to write a letter and turned off the device between letters. The recorded GPS data was loaded into Google Earth to produce the image above.
I can't decide whether I am impressed or appalled.
ReplyDeleteThis would be a lot easier to applaud if I didn't find objectivism so utterly repulsive.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of people misunderstand objectivism. For instance, it doesn't preclude the use or even the funding of "public" roads....
ReplyDeleteI'm apparently in that group.
ReplyDeleteIMHO She was as loony as L. Ron Hubbard.
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