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Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world

Boris Written on 26th May 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

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)
Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world

The suitcase:
Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world

The movie:

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

About the author: Serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. Current activities include TwitterCounter.com & this Blog. Boris is also very active on Twitter: @Boris

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

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  1. By Patrick de Laive on May 26, 2008

    It looks like the DHL pilots were drunk :)

    Reply

  2. By David on May 26, 2008

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

    Reply

  3. By Roy Tomeij on May 28, 2008

    Hoax indeed :)

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

    Reply

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