farmers with too much time on their hands

Prob­lem: The rice paddy in your back­yard veg­etable gar­den is just plain blah. You need to spice it up.

Solu­tion:

Unlike the grass art I posted last Fri­day, which was made with vary­ing the amount of light given to the grass, this pat­tern is made with plant­ing dif­fer­ent kinds of rice to make the pat­tern. The tech­nique may be more con­ven­tional, but the result is still pretty cool…

Image spot­ted on the Gamil Design blog [ source ]

July 24 2008 04:23 am | Categories: art • places | Tags: • • •

3 Responses to “farmers with too much time on their hands”

  1. Greg on 25 Jul 2008 at 6:06 am #

    I should TOTALLY be grow­ing rice…there’s about five inches of rain stand­ing in the gar­den bed this morn­ing. I’m hop­ing for some sun­shine pretty soon!

  2. Greg on 25 Jul 2008 at 6:06 am #

    Oh, but this project…that’s amaz­ingly cool! (It doesn’t always have to be about me, eh?) Do we have any idea what it says?

  3. lostlandscape on 25 Jul 2008 at 8:34 am #

    Since my Japan­ese is about as unpass­able as my Urdu and Nahu­atl I have no idea what these say–maybe it’s time to take some Japan­ese lessons. The site where these images orig­i­nally came from, 3 blog gen­er­a­tions back is even less infor­ma­tive if you don’t read the lan­guage: http://www.am.askanet.ne.jp/~tugaru/z-inakadate.htm

    The image that’s repro­duced, though, is Hiroshige’s famous wood­cut, The Great Wave. Like many art icons it can sur­vive trans­la­tion to dif­fer­ent media, whether they be t-shirts, handbags–or rice pad­dies… (In fact, one of the other pad­dies repro­duces Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.)

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply