[Synapse elist] mowing the lawn

[Paul Brown]

Hi all

Given the subject of "mowing the lawn" I can't resist send you this  
one from Kitchen Budapest:

   http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/landprint

Photographic images made by a robot lawnmower!

Best
Paul

On 10 Jul 2008, at 22:11, Vicki wrote:

> Simon,
>
> I recall the first 'Charles and Diana' visit to NZ with wee willie  
> William..
> The gardeners at Government House in Wellington spent some  
> considerable
> months beforehand mowing the main lawns into a pattern of (and now I  
> can't
> remember: a kiwi? profiles of the happy couple?)...
>
>> "Simeon Lockhart Nelson" <simeon at simeon-nelson.com> wrote:
>> Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite things to do. When I was a
>> child I mowed my family's large informal garden and would mow
>> patterns
>
> and
>>> The maps they submit make medieval cartography seem highly
>>> empirically sophisticated by comparison! I find this strange in the
>>> age of Google Earth when any of us can explore the most remote  
>>> corner
>>> of the earth with panoptic ease.
>
> It's not at all strange to me. But then I'm someone who spends most  
> of her
> time on Google Earth 'zoomed in'... ie. using it to see detail.
>
> Which makes the following much less surprising. Surely mapping done  
> whilst
> walking, with all the body memory that implies, stays with us for  
> longer, at
> a deeper level?
>
>>> the Inuit
>>> have extraordinary mental maps. They can remember many miles of
>>> complex coastline and carve a piece of wood to represent this with
>>> almost the same level of accuracy as GPS mapping. They can do this  
>>> by
>>> by traveling on foot or sledge through the landscape once.
>
> Jeremy,
>
>>>> From: "jeremy wood" <jwood.net at gmail.com>
>>>> From the recording and mapping of my daily GPS tracks since 2002  
>>>> I have
>>>> certainly changed the way I treat my journeys, it has even  
>>>> influenced
>>>> the way I mow the lawn.
>
> Do you worry about becoming paranoid, knowing your every movement is  
> being
> recorded?
>
>
> Vicki
>
>
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