Worlds Largest Drawing - Hoax/Spam
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
When we caught wind of “The Worlds Largest Self Portrait” in all of the headlines about a week ago, we were reluctant to post anything about it right away as a result of our ever growing skepticism. The first thing that came to mind, was how easy it would be to fake such a thing, and the second was, who the hell would fork out the dough to do this. Well it turns out that for once, our cynical nature paid off in saving us the embarrassment of retracting a post like that of many other feed networks titled “WORLDS BIGGEST SELF PORTRAIT - OMG!!!!!” In a recent article posted today by Wired, they state that the Artist Admits He Didn’t Actually Use
GPS and DHL to Create ‘Biggest Drawing in the World’. To quote Wired’s article “Yep, it’s a fake. The artist has added a line to the bottom of his webpage stating “”This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time.”" And DHL confirmed that Nordenenkar never went any further than a warehouse the company allowed him to film in.”
We would have been more impressed if someone had done this with an etch-a-sketch.
Link…
[via Wired]
