This article was published on May 26, 2008

Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world


Mischievous Monday Morning: Biggest drawing in the world
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Founder & board member, TNW

Boris is a serial entrepreneur who founded not only TNW, but also V3 Redirect Services (sold), HubHop Wireless Internet Provider (sold), and Boris is a serial entrepreneur who founded not only TNW, but also V3 Redirect Services (sold), HubHop Wireless Internet Provider (sold), and pr.co. Boris is very active on Twitter as @Boris and Instagram: @Boris.

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:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irDEzQovftM]

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

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