A farm not far from where Gerald R. Ford grew up created a maze in a cornfield in the likeness of the America’s 38th president, who died last December.
Each year, Gull Meadow Farms near Richland cuts a maze in its corn fields. A company that specializes in corn maze design drew up the plans for the Ford portrait, which says PRESIDENT FORD across the top and THANKS below.
“Instead of just creating a path for people to travel through, we decided to make it a tribute to the late President Ford,” said Justin Wendzel, a spokesman for the farm.
Ford was 93 when he died Dec. 26 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He grew up in Grand Rapids, about 42 miles north of Gull Meadow Farms, and represented the area in Congress for years before becoming president in 1974.
A new version of Web Trend Map has been released.
When Information Architects Japan (iA) released their Web Trend Map in early 2007, it created lots of buzz around the net. Based on the Tokyo Metro Map (pdf), iA has arranged popular websites according to their functionality and influence.
The Web Trend Map is not really precise and useful, but it’s cool nonetheless.
Update Feb 2, 2008 - Web Trend Map 2008 Beta has been released.
A shag rug designed by Valentina Audrito. Odd but adorable.
Ed Jarrett spent his summer building ‘Castle to the Sun’, a massive sand castle, to raise funds for Camp Sunshine, a camp on Sebago Lake for children with life-threatening illnesses.
Jarrett and his sand castle
Jarrett completed the world-record 31.7-foot-high sand castle on Saturday (September 1) at the Point Sebago Resort in Casco, Maine. His castle broke his own record set in Falmouth, Maine, in 2003 with a castle that was 29 feet, 3 inches high.
Jarrett spent about two months building the 32-foot tall castle with the help of 1,500 volunteers to raise money for his cause. It’s reported that Jarrett’s effort has raised around $100,000 thus far.
There are some dispute on the new official word record though; in June a 43-foot castle was built (by others) in Myrtle Beach… but according to Jarrett, the Myrtle Beach castle failed to follow Guinness World Records guidelines that ban using machinery and require the structure to be taller than it is wide.
However, Myrtle Beach officials claimed to have permission from Guinness to stray from the guidelines. The Guinness organization hasn’t yet decided whether the Myrtle Beach castle should be considered an official record. At the moment, Jarrett’s 2003 record is still intact.
Regardless, this is one amazing feat by Jarrett.
Farmers in Isle of Ruegen, Northern Germany have used Global Positioning System (GPS) to plough a huge pig image (37,000 square metres) on a cornfield. Not the best quality of crop art, but looks cute…
Giant pig crop art in Isle of Ruegen (Image courtesy of
Xinhuanet)
This is not a photograph… it is a drawing by US artist Dru Blair. Amazing piece of art isn’t so?
This ‘tractor’ is actually a digital-created image, made by CG4TV animation studio. Below is a short video clip of the ‘tractor’ in action…
A Korean origami enthusiast has made some origami pieces featuring the battle units of popular PC strategy game, Starcraft.
Starcraft origami (More pics on
Yahoo)
