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A couple of picture-sets that I wanted to pass along, since they look awesome. :D
A friend on Twitter, SatouTanaka, linked to some incredible snow structures in Sapporo.
And then, one of my friends (David from BraveAndDandy.com) sent me a set of photos of ricefields in Japan.
Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye.
Instead, different color rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.
Created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colors are created by using different varieties. This following photo of Napoleon was taken in Inakadate, Japan.
Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are featured on the television series Tenchijin, appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture of Japan.
Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.
The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the colored patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September.
The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields.
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.
Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen.
Rice-paddy art was started in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees. The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces. In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year, but their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.
A friend on Twitter, SatouTanaka, linked to some incredible snow structures in Sapporo.
And then, one of my friends (David from BraveAndDandy.com) sent me a set of photos of ricefields in Japan.
Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye.
Instead, different color rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.
Created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colors are created by using different varieties. This following photo of Napoleon was taken in Inakadate, Japan.
Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are featured on the television series Tenchijin, appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture of Japan.
Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.
The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the colored patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September.
The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields.
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.
Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen.
Rice-paddy art was started in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees. The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces. In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year, but their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.
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I am *shocked* no-one is paying american farmers to do this. XD Especially in the age of Google Earth...
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There have been small advertisements that were planned in-advance when the scans were announced in advance, like the KFC (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/11/kfc_logo_stunt_now_in_google_earth.html) one, and then I noticed on my skydive that they had written on their roofs, but that's self-explanatory as to why... ;)
I'm gonna have to look around Japan now and see if anything shows up. ^^ I wonder if Google Maps and Earth use the same database. I would assume so.
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I hadn't seen that KFC thing! X3 I wonder if there's some list of stuff like that somewhere?
I can think of a few people who would've liked to have seen a giant maxim model. XD
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Did you happen to see what the Maxim Model (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/04/maxim_puts_110f.html) looked like? (They also apparently link to some other anomalies, like a giant frog which is actually from the Rainforest Cafe.)
(Heh, and I just discovered that Toronto's been 3D'ed (http://www.maplandia.com/canada/ontario/toronto-metropolitan-municipality/toronto/toronto-google-earth.html), kinda, and that there's a Google Earth Plugin. ^^)
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I would have thought if the buildings didn't work out easily enough, they would've just not built them. But instead, they slapped the (bad) textures on them and left it as is. Makes it pretty ugly.