Crop Circles
The best of Google Maps: Circles, Paintings, and Rude Messages
It's often the simplest things that get the biggest laugh around here, and when we open the GSS suggestion box it's easy to get overwhelmed with small zingers that get a nice chuckle. So that's just what we did for…
England’s Crop Art and the World’s Largest Jellyfish
In the early Summer of 2009, England's annual crop art season got underway in spectacular fashion with one of the most impressive creations ever to grace a Barley field - a gargantuan 250m long, 60m wide Jellyfish that appeared one…
Mystery Forest Art
It's not uncommon to stumble across some interesting sights and shapes when you browse through Google Maps, but there's something special about stumbling across forest clearings that surely must be man-made, but there's no obvious reason for the recognisable shapes!…
Lindisfarne (Island week 3)
It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It'll probably last about a week. Lindisfarne is a tidal island, off the north-east coast of England, which thanks to having been home to a…
The Vitruvian Man
The Vitruvian Man (Wikipedia) was drawn around 1487 by Leonardo Da Vinci, and has since become not only the most famous of Da Vinci's works, but also one of the most famous images ever created. The drawing depicts a male…
Half Naked Woman Crop Circle
It's hard not to see the rear of a naked woman in the shapes made by this field in Sicily, Italy. As you can see though, the title of this post refers not to the fact that she's half naked…
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