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Yes! You too can pretend your an all knowing alien and make your own crop circles!
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Crop circles appear to be very intricate formations, with many geometric shapes linked in sophisticated patterns. But the basics of crop-circle creation and the tools involved are actually fairly simple.
In general, circlemakers follow the following steps:
[SIZE=-2]Photo courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
Here are the tools they used:
[SIZE=-2]Photo courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Circlemaker John Lundberg displaying one of the 'stalk stompers' (and standing in front of the combine) his team will use to create the formation.[/SIZE]
This is the resulting crop circle:
[SIZE=-2]Photo courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]This formation, created in a field opposite Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, took the team five hours to create.[/SIZE]
Circlemakers avoid getting caught by working under cover of night and by hiding their tracks in existing tractor-tire ruts.
[SIZE=+1]Crop Circles for Profit[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Some circlemakers are turning their talent into a real business -- and making big profits from it. A team including artist and filmmaker John Lundberg, Rod Dickinson and Wil Russell travel all over the world making crop circles as advertisements for big corporations. Their client list includes a multibillion dollar computer-chip company, a car manufacturer and a digital television company. Although they won't divulge exactly how much they make per crop design, their budgets are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]Photos courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]For the company Sanrio, the team worked with other artists to create a 200-ft portrait in a wheat field at Yatesbury in Wiltshire to commemorate Hello Kitty's 30th anniversary.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
Crop circles appear to be very intricate formations, with many geometric shapes linked in sophisticated patterns. But the basics of crop-circle creation and the tools involved are actually fairly simple.
In general, circlemakers follow the following steps:
- Choose a location.
- Create a diagram of the design (although some circlemakers decide to come up with an idea spontaneously when they arrive at their intended site).
- Once they arrive at the field, they use ropes and poles to measure out the circle.
- One circlemaker stands in the middle of the proposed circle and turns on one foot while pushing the crop down with the other foot to make a center.
- The team makes the radius of the circle using a long piece of rope tied at both ends to an approximately 4-foot-long (1.2-meter) board called a stalk stomper (a garden roller can also be used). One member of the team stands at the center of the circle while the other walks around the edge of the circle, putting one foot in the middle of the board to stomp down the circle's outline.
[SIZE=-2]Photos courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Circlemakers Rod Dickinson and Wil Russell in action[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-2]Photo courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
Here are the tools they used:
[SIZE=-2]Photo courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Circlemaker John Lundberg displaying one of the 'stalk stompers' (and standing in front of the combine) his team will use to create the formation.[/SIZE]
This is the resulting crop circle:
[SIZE=-2]Photo courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]This formation, created in a field opposite Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, took the team five hours to create.[/SIZE]
Circlemakers avoid getting caught by working under cover of night and by hiding their tracks in existing tractor-tire ruts.
[SIZE=+1]Crop Circles for Profit[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Some circlemakers are turning their talent into a real business -- and making big profits from it. A team including artist and filmmaker John Lundberg, Rod Dickinson and Wil Russell travel all over the world making crop circles as advertisements for big corporations. Their client list includes a multibillion dollar computer-chip company, a car manufacturer and a digital television company. Although they won't divulge exactly how much they make per crop design, their budgets are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-2]Photos courtesy www.circlemakers.org[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]For the company Sanrio, the team worked with other artists to create a 200-ft portrait in a wheat field at Yatesbury in Wiltshire to commemorate Hello Kitty's 30th anniversary.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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