[HN Gopher] Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art ...
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Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness
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Author : bookofjoe
Score : 209 points
Date : 2024-12-11 22:42 UTC (4 days ago)
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| bookofjoe wrote:
| https://archive.ph/ocmAK
| hprotagonist wrote:
| but how about an entire city? http://pac.tom7.org/
| caseyohara wrote:
| I highly recommend tom7's YouTube channel
| https://www.youtube.com/suckerpinch
|
| His videos are ambitious, nerdy/technical, and really funny.
| cmehdy wrote:
| He also appears immensely intelligent, motivated and kind,
| which makes for great content. I'm glad I discovered his
| channel here in the past.
| egeozcan wrote:
| I'm actually a bit jealous of his intelligence, motivation,
| creativity, and personality. Maybe letting go of that
| jealousy could be a good first step toward becoming a bit
| more like him, even if just a little :)
|
| Seriously though, for me, it's like Christmas when he
| releases a new video.
| caseyohara wrote:
| It's one of the few channels that I'm glad doesn't
| release more than one or two videos per year. When a new
| one comes out, you know it's going to be extremely high
| quality. It's clear he puts a lot of effort into them;
| every video is such a treat.
| precommunicator wrote:
| If you want to do it for yourself, https://wandrer.earth/ (not
| affiliated)
| gnabgib wrote:
| Related:
|
| _World's largest (7 countries, 7,237km) Strava art is finally
| finished_ (2 points, 2 years ago, no comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32523588
|
| _Strava artist draws pictures with his bike and GPS_ (2 points,
| 9 years ago, no comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138751
|
| _US teacher tracks his bike rides by GPS - and creates some
| stunning artwork_ (14 points, 13 years ago, 4 comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3518331
|
| _Swedish artist ships GPS to make world 's biggest sketch_ (4
| points, 17 years ago, 3 comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201026
| eth0up wrote:
| I used to, back in the better days whence I ran, keep gps records
| of most of my trajectories.
|
| None ever made significant art, but it's not an unpleasant
| exercise in itself to mentally revisit the paths while attempting
| to remember as many details as possible.
|
| There's so much think-time on distance runs, so much to take in,
| if the discomfort doesn't lower the proverbial brow beneath the
| shoe into the gutters of the mind, which it often did for me.
| nakedneuron wrote:
| Sometimes I enjoy doing this, too. Makes one wonder about
| memory..
| bretpiatt wrote:
| Direct link to the TikTok video:
| https://www.tiktok.com/@duncan77mccabe/video/743836674477690...
| omoikane wrote:
| Also on youtube: https://youtu.be/fO--TM4_6hw
| yapyap wrote:
| appreciate it, also wow his min/km is very good
| solardev wrote:
| Art can't wait
| notatoad wrote:
| running 1hr/day will do that to you
| jashper wrote:
| I need to meet this individual -- amazing!
| krisoft wrote:
| Can someone who is familiar with Toronto say if this feels
| realistic to them? I understand the bits where the lines stick to
| the street grid, but some of the lines appear to be crossing
| blocks in a very clean and straight way.
|
| Not saying it is not real but it is just a bit too clean to me.
| Even with extremely good planning i would expect that the lines
| would need to compromise sometimes to avoid buildings.
| mkonecny wrote:
| For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some
| points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill
| in the missing data with a diagonal line
| throw0101b wrote:
| > _For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at
| some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to
| fill in the missing data with a diagonal line_
|
| This part of Toronto also has laneways, so if you use the
| above feature, in combination with crossing through laneways
| that don't show up as streets at this level of zoom, you can
| perhaps get diagonal interpretation from Strava.
| canucker2016 wrote:
| from his twitter/x acct,
| https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860191515349504467 and
| https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860192166561349753
| People were generally understanding when I walked through
| homes. But when it got inconvenient I just stoped/started the
| app to get Strava to draw B-line between the points
| Strava requires a run to be continuous. So I do the full run.
| And in post I trim off the extra bits to get the hat in the air
| neom wrote:
| Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running route.
| throw0101b wrote:
| > _Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running
| route._
|
| The green patch in the head when the video starts is Christie
| Pits:
|
| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Pits
|
| The green patch by the right leg is:
|
| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Bellwoods_Park
|
| Both are nice, but the run would is done via Ossington on the
| left of the body:
|
| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossington_Avenue
|
| And Gorve Vale/Grace on the right of the body. Ossington
| would probably have decent street life.
| mikebowman wrote:
| Ossington has basically no street life from Bloor to
| Dundas. Once you get south of Dundas it gets very lively,
| but the northern stretch of Ossington is a bit bleak, as
| someone who has also run a lot in that neighbourhood.
| mcpherrinm wrote:
| I live in Toronto and know who Duncan is. I can vouch he did
| this for real.
|
| Toggling Strava pauses to get nice straight lines is definitely
| a bit of a trick to make it nicer.
| paulcole wrote:
| This is literally in the article.
|
| > When there are buildings in the way of a line he needs to
| draw, "I pause the app, then when I get to the desired
| destination, I resume," he said. "When you un-pause, Strava
| runs a direct line between the two points."
| szundi wrote:
| may be just missing position samples from corners, end result
| is a shortcut line
| vunderba wrote:
| Now Niantic just needs to integrate this idea into huge
| pentagrams or other complex shapes that you have to physically
| trace by walking vast distances in order to capture certain rare
| pokemon.
| Crespyl wrote:
| Pretty sure they sort of did this with their prior game, the
| name of which escapes me at the moment.
|
| You'd basically draw giant triangles by visiting the vertices
| (or coordinating with remote team members) to control
| territory.
|
| It'd be neat to see it explored more.
| fffffssscbnjiu wrote:
| Ingress is what you are thinking of.
| mgkimsal wrote:
| A friend of mine did something similar-but-smaller a few years
| back. Told me he had the idea and mapped it out, but didn't
| estimate it well. Rough estimate was maybe 10 or so miles, but it
| turned out to be over 20, but halfway through he didn't want to
| give up.
|
| https://wdet.org/2020/05/15/this-detroiter-ran-21-miles-to-s...
| bch wrote:
| Don't break the chain! [0]
|
| [0] https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-
| secret-2...
| NotYourLawyer wrote:
| Thought this was gonna be tom7.
| pablonhess wrote:
| "And I would walk 700 miles, then I would walk 700 more..." :-)
| The Proclaimers
| smel wrote:
| I do not understand all those links behind paywall here. what's
| the point
| bch wrote:
| Airplanes are in on this action too. [0][1]
|
| [0]
| https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/10r3k9p/...
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34616511
| iancmceachern wrote:
| My favorite one of these was the last 747 delivery flight
| ceejayoz wrote:
| My dad got bored in the peak of the pandemic and wrote a name
| over Kentucky. https://imgur.com/a/ZBu2EYT
| t0mas88 wrote:
| It's quite a common trick in airplanes. Someone drew a "50"
| over half of the Netherlands for the 50th anniversary of the
| flight school I teach at.
|
| In airplanes it's not that hard. You can draw the route on your
| iPad on the ground, then load those GPS points into the plane
| via Bluetooth and fly it. A modern autopilot could even fly it
| for you, but you'd have to sit there being bored for a few
| hours.
|
| If you do it at low altitude in uncontrolled airspace you're
| free to draw whatever you want. In controlled airspace you may
| get ATC interfering with your drawing. But even that can be
| coordinated, mapping companies do that all the time, fly very
| specific patterns in coordination with ATC.
| meindnoch wrote:
| From the scare quotes I thought it would be a giant penis. Alas
| it's not.
| JimDabell wrote:
| Don't worry, from just six weeks ago:
|
| https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welshman-says-...
| petepete wrote:
| It should be in the national gallery.
| Oarch wrote:
| Finally, a solid theory for what those giant petroglyphs were
| for!
| nxpnsv wrote:
| That's many things, but is it insanely impressive art? I don't
| think so.
| lyime wrote:
| The whole thing is art. Doesnt have to impress anyone.
| geoduck14 wrote:
| The title claims it is "insanely impressive." While the art
| doesn't need to be "insanely impressive," if the title uses
| that phrase, we would expect it to be impressive.
|
| I, my self, haven't looked at the article yet, but I would
| imagine the criticism is on a "click baitish title" - not on
| the art
|
| Update: I have watched the video. That is damn impressive
| nxpnsv wrote:
| I only looked at the stills before, but I agree that the
| animation really is an impressive achievment. However,
| there is nothing below the surface here. The stick figure
| takes a few steps and lifts its hat. The medium is
| impressive, the art not so much.
| amelius wrote:
| Well, it's more impressive than this "artwork" that sold for
| $6M:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork)
| nxpnsv wrote:
| You are not wrong.
| DiscourseFan wrote:
| "The real value is the concept."
|
| Insipidly Hegelian.
| sathishmanohar wrote:
| If only he knew how to zoom. He could've made this in less than 7
| miles in a day. -\\_(tsu)_/-
| Dwedit wrote:
| There was Pac-Man played by GPS a long time ago.
| Simon_ORourke wrote:
| The only thing he's missing is that he did this "for charity".
| lifestyleguru wrote:
| Next he goes to fight poor children in Africa.
| xyzzy123 wrote:
| He'll probably win, poor children are actually not such good
| fighters.
| curiousgal wrote:
| You don't have to run a single mile to produce such routes. You
| can easily fake the runs.
| ta8903 wrote:
| It is possible to draw on a map in other ways, yes.
| hshshshshsh wrote:
| This is a prime example of why we are universe goofing around for
| eternity under disguise of fake seperation using make believe
| personalities and genes.
| kleiba wrote:
| Why not drive (at least part of the way if one-ways are an
| issue)?
| buran77 wrote:
| He was probably actually exercising and injected some extra
| fun. Cycling could have been an acceptable faster method.
| Driving is right there with using Paint to do the whole thing,
| only less convenient.
| driscoll42 wrote:
| This, if your workout plan for the day has you running is six
| miles a day, rather than just running the same path over and
| over again, might as well have fun with it and add a bit more
| fun to your workout.
| xyst wrote:
| This is what you call "iron will"
| svag wrote:
| All those GPS art pieces reminded me of Nazca lines in Peru,
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines. Are the GPS art pieces
| a modern version of Nazca lines?
| DiscourseFan wrote:
| Presumably the peoples who made that art couldn't see it from
| above. Unless it was aliens
| adonovan wrote:
| It's the IMAX version of
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Atom!
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