In Australia, mowing the lawn is the quintessential suburban experience. I actually don’t mind mowing the lawn. As a household chore mowing the lawn has potential for a bit of a creative twist. In the past I have attempted to create the Black Flag bar logo and a strange heart shape in an attempt to capture the interest of a Google satellite (No luck in that department). Today was different. I decided to try to mow something new. Something simple. Two letters. Three numerals. ds106.
I’ll continue to trim, shape and refine the ds106 in my backyard. Until the end of summer anyway.
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That is beautiful! Art by lawnmower. If you get more ambitious try doing a caricature of Jim Groom.
I spent many many hours as a teen pushing the mower and recall a bit of a meditative experience, isolated by it’s noise from the rest of the world,
But I don’t miss it a bit! I have all rock where I live, which rarely needs mowing.
Carry on, make lawn art, damnit!
Thanks Alan!
You’re right, there’s definitely a meditative quality to the lawn mowing experience. I’ll look into applying some more advanced lawn shaping techniques over the next few weeks.
I also think that the ‘S’ could do with some work. At the moment it kind of looks like a ‘5’.
🙂
I guess you’re always limited by available materials. I reckon you could build ds106 pagoda from all the rocks around your house. 😉
Now that’s really cool, love the creativity 🙂
Hey thanks!
I had fun mowing it.
I’ve seen photos of the lawn at UMW and I think it would look great with a nice ds106 logo! Could be class project. 🙂
This is awesome.
Wonder if we couldn’t start a project to see if anyone can get a “ds106” lawn art project to show up on Google Maps — Alan could take a stab at rock art. Others could tackle grass art. Where I live, there are so many trees you can’t really see much. Maybe I could convince my husband to let me paint the driveway. 🙂
Hiya Martha!
You could always prune your trees in to the shape of ds106.
🙂
I could also see a project like this follow the seasons. It would be great to see the deciduous trees in autumn. The fallen leaves could be used to shape the ds106 logo. Results would also vary for those living in northern and southern hemisphere. It would be a long-term project! 🙂
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awesome sir 😀
Thanks for the compliment sir! With a bit of planning, I reckon I could mow the Sense logo in your lawn! 🙂
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I’d actually like to move from the physical lawn design to the virtual lawn design, where lawn designs could persistantly augment a virtual space. Furthermore, the virtual lawn would respond to stimuli. For example, rate of growth, colour, health and change of seasons.
In fact, I wouldn’t want to limit this concept to a strict lawn mowing pursuit. I think there’s scope for other things.
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That was then, this is now – there’s always a lawn that needs to be mowed, somewhere!