A small 82cmx82cm square of dirt has been created to represent a “dead pixel” in Google Earth by artist Helmut Smits. He burned out the square from a patch of grass, which would look like a non-functioning pixel at a vertical distance of 1km.
[via Laughing Squid]

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Well, give us a link to it on google earth then?!
May 1st, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Anyone else find this kindof thing to be a pretentious waste of time? I mean, ooo, you burned a square into the ground. I’m sure that severely taxed your limited imagination, coming up with that. Good job.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Dude burned some grass to create what would be a pretty neat easter egg in google earth. I dont really think thats pretentious and it is actually pretty imaginative. He integrated the cyber world into the natural world in a pretty clever way. Just my 2 cents
May 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I find Rasmus Larson to be pretentious actually.
Obviously sees things at such a simple level.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
beg your pardon Rasmus, I mean asdf
May 1st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
shopped. pixels aren’t that big. i can tell. look at the pixel.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
i’ve worked with many pixels that size in my line of work.
trust me, no shop here.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
this isn’t a waste of time, it looks like it only took a solid afternoon’s worth of work… and hell, I know I’ve done profoundly lesser projects that lasted longer than an afternoon.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:28 pm
How F%$^&*& stupid is this??? Nuf said, I guess. Whoa, I rhymed!! SWEET!!!
May 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
All Me. All Day…, Where was the rhyme in that? “This” and “Guess” do not rhyme. The whole dead pixel idea is really cool. I say congrats.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 am