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Artist Draws World’s Largest Doodles By Riding His Bike With GPS
Stephen Lund cycles about 70km every day, creating clever doodles using a GPS app that maps his progress. The BC, Canada native began his unusual craft in 2015 to unwind and be creative; since then, he’s logged 22,300km, and his longest piece has been a 220km mermaid.
"The best ones pop off the map," Lund says, explaining his process. "I liken it to seeing shapes in the clouds. I pour [sic] over a map of the city...The challenge is that the roads all have to connect — it has to be one continuous line."
Update: The world record for the largest GPS drawing belongs to Yasushi Takahashi from Japan, who made a GPS drawing in 2010. He made an even larger piece in 2015 that was 105,734km long (not certified by Guinness World Records). It showcases the creativity and dedication of GPS artists, a category that could inspire future famous artists to explore similar digital and physical canvases.
More info: gpsdoodles.com | strava.com (h/t: booooooom)
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Giraffe (95.5 km, 3 h 30 min)
T-Rex missing some teeth (39.4 km, 1 h 43 min)
Darth Vader (46.3 km, 2h 17 min)
when he was spelling Lord Vader he obviously saw a Macdonalds and took a deor ;)
Bicycling
Rio's "Christ the Redeemer" (25.8 km, 1 h 20 min)
Strava Yoda (25.6 km, 1 h 25 min)
The Mermaid of the Salish Sea (89.7 km, 4 h 13 min)
Queen Victoria (15.7 km, 56 min)
Dopey stegosaurus tramples Fernwood (44.4 km, 1 h 56 min)
Statue of David
T-Rex terrorizes Beacon Hill Park (37.3 km, 1 h 43 min)
Alan's Spirit Animal (26.3 km, 1 h 7 min)
Sorry sir but how exactly did you bike across the part of the ocean?
Armadillo
Maze (76.7 km, 3 h 44 min)
Easter Bunny (75.5 km, 3 h 17 min)
Enormous orca breaches from Strait of Juan de Fuca (33.2 km, 1 h 35 min)
Wicked Witch of the West Coast (85.9 km, 3 h 24 min)
Thug plucks a gator by the tail from the Salish sea (89.7 km, 3 h 50 min)
Name Of My City: Eger (hungary)
But these are on Strava, no you can't just photoshop them
Load More Replies...I'm finding it hard to believe someone put in that much effort…just to draw some pictures!? But seriously, wow!
Same here. But ten years ago or so, I heard also about a writer who cycled the world to write "art" across the globe, or something like that.
Load More Replies...But these are on Strava, no you can't just photoshop them
Load More Replies...I'm finding it hard to believe someone put in that much effort…just to draw some pictures!? But seriously, wow!
Same here. But ten years ago or so, I heard also about a writer who cycled the world to write "art" across the globe, or something like that.
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