A Swedish artist, Erik Nordenankar, recently made more that a few waves by claiming to have drawn the biggest picture in the world, a portrait of himself constructed of a single line 110 thousand km long.

Nordenanker said his amazing drawing had been sketched out, not in ink or paint, but by the movements of a special briefcase fitted with a GPS tracker. This case, he claimed, had been given to DHL along with a precise itinerary detailing the exact coordinates the package was to be taken to. Once it had completed its world-spanning round-trip, Nordenanker simply downloaded the route from the device’s memory and set about publicising his achievement.

http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx

However, according to The Daily Telegraph, the Swede’s only achievement may have been to fool a small number of people for a short period of time, as doubts raised almost simultaneously with the claim seem to have been vindicated:

[quote author=“Telegraph”]‘Biggest drawing in world’ revealed as hoax

A Swedish artist who claimed to have drawn the biggest picture in the world using a GPS device stuffed inside a briefcase has been exposed as a hoaxer. Erik Nordenankar’s self-portrait

I don’t think it would count anyway
All he would have at the end would be a print out
Besides which he wouldn’t have done the legwork
and the courier whoever they were would be the real
artist.

I’d have been less skeptical if the ‘detail’ bits like hair an whatnot were centered over a major landmass like north america or russia, where the package could be shipped point-to-point with more control and without a need to have a boat or plain doing spirals and squiggles over open water. It would just be a LOT of efforf and expense for a ‘drawing’.

Hah!  It didn’t fool me!!!

Of course, I hadn’t even heard of it before it was posted here as a hoax.  But that’s beside the point.

OMFG IT’S JESUS!!!1!

Yeah, it was rather silly of him to have the delivery people supposedly out in the middle of the ocean flying or sailing around in loops.