10 Most Incredible Globes: Taking Earth Day Literally
Tue, Apr 21, 2009
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Earth Day is not only a time to reflect on the many ways in which we could improve our environment but also a chance to appreciate the beauty of the world we live in. The following ten artistic renditions of our planet demonstrate that how we look at the Earth is up to our imagination.
1. Belgium artist Jan Fabre’s “Globe” (1997) made of bugs:
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2. Brick artist Nathan Sawaya’s rendition of the Earth in Lego bricks:
Image via Brickartist
3. “Eartha,” the world’s largest revolving and rotating globe, weighing almost 3 tons, at DeLorme headquarters in Yarmouth, ME:
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4. A globe many would like to visit at least once in their lifetime: North Cape or Nordkapp, Europe’s most famous northernmost point:
Image: Marc Jetzkowitz
5. This author’s all-time favourite hangout, the Unisphere in Flushing Meadow’s Corona Park, a beautiful remnant from New York City’s World Fair of 1964/65:
Image: Magnus Manske
Or how about a globe you can walk into? It is actually a 30-ft bridge covered with a stained-glass dome that has brought more than 10 million visitors to the middle of the earth since 1935. But don’t get confused, it also depicts the world as it was in 1935!
6. A walk-in Earth at the Mapparium in Boston’s Mary Baker Eddy Library:
Image via Mary Baker Eddy Library
7. Here’s a globe many would love to dig into – the Earth made of chocolate. Created for a United Nations meeting in Switzerland in 2008, that’s one sweet reminder of global warming:
Image via Excellence Bakery
Hiroshi Matsui, professor at Japan’s Otemae Confectionary College, had the same idea. His students created a 3 m-diameter chocolate globe for a college festival in 2007, using 35,000 coloured chocolate truffles for decoration. Sweet!
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Landscape architects Tracy Taylor, Lisa Gregg, Jennifer Simokaitis, Jeaneane Quinn and Hoerr Schaudt used 2,000 colourful seed packets for their project, “Be Inspired,” in which the Earth grows out of a flower pot. Viewers might indeed feel inspired to get in touch with their inner gardener by growing fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers at home, thus reducing the number of packaged and shipped store-bought produce.
8. “Be Inspired,” the Earth made of seed packets at a U.S. Botanical Garden exhibition in Washington, DC:
Image: Kimberley Faye
And, in a similar vein, “Green Roofs Save Energy”” by Deborah Adams Doering at the same exhibition:
Image: Kimberly Faye
9. The Earth carved out of wood at an exhibition in Goettingen, Germany:
Image via Nepalese Society
10. Here’s a lovely homemade globe crafted from a potato; after all, the tuber is called an “apple of the earth” in many languages:
Image: Ilia Chentsoy
Staying with the do-it-yourself idea, here’s a historical paper globe from 1881 that one can make at home:
Image via Myweb
So what are you waiting for, get creative this Earth Day!
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April 22nd, 2009 at 4:17 am
I like these But I liked it a lot more when I didne have to click the link to see the pictures! :) keep it up -TY Christine a 12 yr. old Canadian Girl
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:36 am
The sixth globe is so old it has the USSR and British India. !!
I’d say it was built in the inter-war period.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
haha, that’s crazy. You know I love chocolate! ;)
<3
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Eartha illuminates DeLorme headquarters in Yarmouth, Maine, USA. the photo is by Jeffrey Stevenson. Please see http://www.delorme.com/about/eartha.aspx for details
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Correction on number 3
Eartha is located in Yarmouth, Maine. Not New York.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10408
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Ya number 3 is in Maine not New York. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eartha
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Very good resources dude!
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April 22nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
U miss the number one: The one in Tokyo, odaiba in a museum, made with LCD screen… able to show the surface of each planet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin1024/302893342/
http://image40.webshots.com/41/9/77/51/304497751bmOlEH_fs.jpg
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Eartha is NOT at the Natural History Museum in NYC. It is on display at Delorme Map’s company headquarters in Yarmouth, ME. http://www.earthamaps.com/about/eartha.aspx Do some research!
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I thought Eartha was in Maine @ the Delorme Map HQ? The photo is from there web page.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
#3 is incorrect. The Eartha Globe is not at The American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It is actually located at the Delorme Headquarters in Yarmouth, Maine.
Here is the full info on Eartha: http://www.delorme.com/about/eartha.aspx
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
These are wonderful! Made my (Earth) day! Thanks for posting.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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April 22nd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
There are also interactive globes out there. For example this (http://strukt.com/2009/mediaglobe/) 4 Meter sphere with 6 projectors around it. It uses NASA’s blue marble textures and displays a realistic day/night situation and other geo-informations.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Really cool display of imagination.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 am
Nice compilation, love the Lego Earth.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Aw, you guys missed one of the most fantastic globes I have every seen: http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/earth-revealed/
The Earth Revealed Globe at the Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry. It’s a giant carbon fiber sphere that they project the earth onto from several different projectors and cycle through a whole series of things such as the evolution of earth, tectonic activity, global climate change activities, etc.
It is suspended on very thin cables so that the impression is that this every active globe floats in mid-air, very much like a Star Wars hologram. They also pull in current atmospheric data and feed that into the system so that what you see when it shows the cloud cover is basically real-time.
If you are in Chicago, this alone is worth the price of admission to the fantastic Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry.
April 26th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Neat article. Will share it on my blog.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
how can you post an enormous globe created with 1000’s of beetles killed as an earth day project? this is anti-earth self-aggrandization. i think you don’t get it
June 26th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
very amazining shots to support the theme of Earth’s Day
enjoyable work of art!!