the earth is your canvas

wow. the Japanese never cease to amaze with their antics and art. (antartica?)
that's RICE they're coloring with!
from Pink Tentacle:

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.

and for you skeptics: it's not Photoshopped

elsewhere...
less impressive, more hilarious:
as a publicity stunt for the upcoming Simpsons movie, this 180 ft Homer was painted next to the 17th century chalked outline of the Pagan fertility god in the hillside of Cerne Abbas, Dorset. Pagans were pissed at the disrespect, and as far as creative ad campaigns go, I'd say indignation is a rather rational reaction when compared to...oh, you know, a terrorism scare. (via boingboing)

dkmon to come!