Crop Circle creators talk about the art and perception of their works.
October 28, 2001 12:34 AM Subscribe
Crop Circle creators talk about the art and perception of their works. I really didn't know how seriously these guys took their creations. I thought it was like a big joke, but its more of a high-concept culture jam. [via fortean times]
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According to Andrews, while 80% of formations were man-made, the rest were the result of some peculiar geo-magnetic force.
That still leaves 20%. Does anyone know of a scientific, i.e- non-journalistic, link or book about this "geo-magnetic force"?
Other, related phenomena that have always baffled me are whistlers. You can actually download some of the sounds there - and they make the hairs on the back of my neck tingle, I can tell you.
There's definitely more to this than meets the eye or ear...
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:39 AM on October 28, 2001
That still leaves 20%. Does anyone know of a scientific, i.e- non-journalistic, link or book about this "geo-magnetic force"?
Other, related phenomena that have always baffled me are whistlers. You can actually download some of the sounds there - and they make the hairs on the back of my neck tingle, I can tell you.
There's definitely more to this than meets the eye or ear...
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:39 AM on October 28, 2001
The only rational explanation for the remaining twenty percent is that they were created by the alien elves that live inside Australia (which is also not really a continent, but a giant spacecraft that crashed nine hundred billion years ago, after fleeing from Xenu)
posted by aramaic at 6:41 AM on October 28, 2001
posted by aramaic at 6:41 AM on October 28, 2001
If only the anthrax hoaxers would take up so benign a hobby!
posted by Carol Anne at 8:00 AM on October 28, 2001
posted by Carol Anne at 8:00 AM on October 28, 2001
Like hosting all night talk AM radio $how$ devoted to the paranoia, er, paranormal?
What about the remote viewers?!
posted by y2karl at 1:45 PM on October 28, 2001
What about the remote viewers?!
posted by y2karl at 1:45 PM on October 28, 2001
Faking UFOs includes a section on creating crop circles and some other great hoaxes...uh, art projects, too.
I'm not sure I'd do a UFO hoax at the moment; too many people are too jumpy. Maybe I'll opt for an Alien Autopsy this year.
posted by realjanetkagan at 3:31 PM on October 28, 2001
I'm not sure I'd do a UFO hoax at the moment; too many people are too jumpy. Maybe I'll opt for an Alien Autopsy this year.
posted by realjanetkagan at 3:31 PM on October 28, 2001
It's OK I found the real explanation for the other 20%. It's all a lot clearer now.
posted by walrus at 4:48 PM on October 28, 2001
posted by walrus at 4:48 PM on October 28, 2001
The butterfly did it!
posted by Carol Anne at 5:39 PM on October 28, 2001
posted by Carol Anne at 5:39 PM on October 28, 2001
I like the photo where one of the chief creators was visiting a crop circle in 1991, thinking about getting into the act on his own, and a real UFO showed up!
posted by LeLiLo at 8:48 PM on October 28, 2001
posted by LeLiLo at 8:48 PM on October 28, 2001
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Still, after reading this interview, it's ridiculous that anyone could consider these not to be man-made. Although it must be great fun to be a conceptual artist whom everyone assumes is a force of nature...
posted by tweebiscuit at 12:59 AM on October 28, 2001