World's biggest hoax
An artist who claimed to have drawn the world's biggest picture using a GPS device inside a briefcase has admitted it was a hoax.
Erik Nordenankar's self-portrait, which straddles the entire globe, was allegedly created by tracing the route taken by the case on a 55-day journey around the world.
The artist had claimed he gave the case to DHL, the package delivery firm, with exact co-ordinates detailing the stages of its tour.
When the package was returned to Stockholm he claimed he downloaded the GPS's route memory to produce the drawing, a single 110,00km line that passes through six continents and 62 countries.
But bloggers pointed out holes in Nordenankar's claim. Some noted that many of the package's mid-route stops appear to be in the middle of the ocean.
Others pointed out that DHL delivery planes would have been highly unlikely to make the tight loops in the North Atlantic that form the hair of the self-portrait.
DHL confirmed to the Telegraph that the artwork was an "entirely fictional project". A spokeswoman said they had allowed him to film in their Stockholm warehouse as part of a college project.
Nordenankar posted the portrait, videos of the briefcase's journey, and photos of a wad of DHL delivery notes on his biggestdrawingintheworld.com website.
But it also now includes a line at the end, admitting: "This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time."
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