Thanks for the link!
I honestly didn’t see more than a few that couldn’t have been done by a few men overnight; most of the others could have been done by a few men, too, over a slightly longer period with careful planning. And without knowing the provenance of the whole thing, I’m undecided ;-)
They are all obviously works of art, and that’s where the importance lies. Art comes from somewhere inside of us; it always has a psychological/spiritual component and message/meaning.
My question would be, What are we saying to ourselves, by this? If we are making this ourselves, what hope or aspiration does it embody? And if, on the very outside chance that some other “intelligence” is doing it, what is *their* message, and why are we fascinated with it?
(Even if someone is making it just to be clever, or to help a field-owner raise cash, I think design always has its own inner meaning, and always affects us on some level.)
I liked the chalk horse, at about 3:38. At first I thought it was superimposed, because I’m not familiar with that one and it looked clumsy; but I looked it up, and it seems to be a real representation, even though it looks ‘off’ in the video.
(My favorite has always been the Uffington..)
-JT
COULD YOU get the straw layered like this?
HOW would you twist and tie so many of these into knots AT NIGHT ?
How exactly would a board do this to the stems ?
HOW TO MAKE (crappy looking) CROP CIRCLES... IN THE DAYLIGHT.... WITH A BUSLOAD OF PEOPLE... AND PORTA POTTIES....AND FOOD AND WATER... AND MATCHING T-SHIRTS... AND CAMERA CREWS.
