Rice Field Art
September 21st, 2007 FunForever
Rice field art in the country of the rising sun. Each year these guys make new images on their field by planting rice in different patterns making various images. They use different sorts of rice for color. The result is amazing as you can see. It’s a pity they only last as long as it’s time to harvest the rice.
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1. huda | September 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Absolutely speechless. It must take a lot of effort to produce such things.
2. im | September 24th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
That’s really amazing!
3. HappyPanda | October 4th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Indeed very amazing.
In your face, Rembrandt!
4. mudcrutch | October 6th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Having lived in Japan for ten years I got to see this up close. Lost of planning time.
5. Liz c | October 8th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Thats one hell of a way to play with your food. Those people are excellent perfectionists.
6. Ben | October 10th, 2007 at 5:53 am
These are pretty impressive! I’d never seen anything like it before; intersting post.
7. Slevi | October 10th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
That’s so cool, definitely beats the grain circles we have some making here
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8. monte | October 10th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
jajaj you are a liar ..i know enaught of photoshop to realise that you have touched the image…jejejej its all fake jaja check out images 12 and 13 they are the same… the same place….diferent images diferent perspective jjjaja liar
9. betsy | October 12th, 2007 at 7:06 am
wonder if you could google earth this to find it…. Where did you say the town was???
10. Elaine Chrysler | October 15th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
fantastic, beautiful. I would love to be able to see this up close, the planting and to see it mature from the air
11. Debbie | October 15th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I want to see this on Google Earth
12. montry | October 16th, 2007 at 3:59 am
oooooooooooooooooooh hhhhhh cool one ! very nice
13. nkechy | October 16th, 2007 at 6:31 am
just like our creator…… men are great creators… this is OFF DA HOOK!
14. Tyler L | October 16th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Kinda makes crop circles look simple
15. Cristobal | October 16th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
ASIA IS TEH SHIT!
16. ZuZa | October 16th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
wOw! what can I say?AMAZING!
17. Kimberly | October 17th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Wow, that is truly amazing!. Must take a lot of skill and planning
18. Ottae | October 17th, 2007 at 7:19 am
That’s incredible, anyone know where in Japan these are? I’d like to see if they’re visible on Google Earth!
19. ishmot | October 17th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Wo!
20. Joe Mamma | October 18th, 2007 at 1:22 am
How much time do these slant-eyes have that they can waste so much on their major food source? You don’t see us Americans growing corn like this! Shouldn’t they be designing the next Playstation or something?
21. jal | October 18th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Is it real? not edited with PS?
22. Merf | October 18th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
joe you need to shut the hell up
23. ~Karen~ | October 18th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Crazy, who thinks these things up? Well, they’re “cool” if a little bored. Wonder what next years will be?
24. Hmm | October 18th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
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20. Joe Mamma | October 18th, 2007 at 1:22 am
How much time do these slant-eyes have that they can waste so much on their major food source? You don’t see us Americans growing corn like this! Shouldn’t they be designing the next Playstation or something?
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That’s because you’re all dumbass hicks who find it hard enough to grow the corn in the first place. These guys mastered it, then got bored with doing it so well that they turned it into an art form.
Goddamn yankee sonofabitch.
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8. monte | October 10th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
jajaj you are a liar ..i know enaught of photoshop to realise that you have touched the image…jejejej its all fake jaja check out images 12 and 13 they are the same… the same place….diferent images diferent perspective jjjaja liar
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And you are in a whole different league of dumb, pictures 12 and 13 are pictures of the same place but they are two completely different pictures taken at different times of the year, probably even of different years.
If you think you can spot a photoshop because two completely seperate pictures are shown at the same time, you have no idea how to use or identify works of photoshop.
Goddamn retards everywhere.
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On a lighter note, this is amazing and a great way to combine art and agriculture.
Good job on the pictures.
25. juho | October 19th, 2007 at 7:39 am
amazing what you can do with photoshop
26. conan doyle | October 19th, 2007 at 8:45 am
ha ha they r crazy nd kool *lol* thinks hw much u can achieve wit a photoshop!:)
27. jolene | October 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
so much effort and love going into the planting of the rice has to produce many benifets beyond pleasing the eye
28. awestruck | October 19th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
thank (whatever you believe in ) for art that joe mama isn’t running the nea - or the world for that matter. wait a minute…
i don’t care if it’s real rice or ps it’s beautiful fascinating and inspriational–go japan–you rule the (art) waves!
but to all you way provincial hicks–get out from under your haystacks! we ‘bored/lazy’–aka Creative americans DO do useless wonderful playful art agriculture like corn mazes and spiral jetties! educate yrself young man!
and while your at it go to holland in tulip time, particularly queens day april 30 where you’ll see tulip mosaics, or even better, ‘gene davis’ striped tulip paintings fields–long!
29. Anonymous | October 19th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Inakadate, Japan is the town.
30. :D | October 19th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
40.638837, 140.560198 on Google Earth/Google Maps
31. Truthy | October 20th, 2007 at 5:51 am
i would say, amazing what photoshop can do with us ..
32. edd | October 21st, 2007 at 4:15 am
:D wikid much brter thn enyfin dat iv sen bifor
33. edd | October 21st, 2007 at 4:16 am
:D wikid man
34. mama macha | October 21st, 2007 at 4:28 am
all u bastards its an art appretate it fuckin joe son of a bitch
35. leonora | October 21st, 2007 at 8:19 am
It’s not Photoshop.
It is red rice and white rice planted in the fields of a Japanese township called Inakadate.
I haven’t been there myself although a friend of mine has and took photos. (they were taken closer to the ground though so it was more of a puzzle to figure out the image.)
36. mg316 | October 21st, 2007 at 10:31 am
PS or not the pictures and and fields are very well made and thought out
37. Jill | October 22nd, 2007 at 12:21 am
Jesus Christ, how pathetic is it that anytime someone sees something amazing on the internet, they automatically scream, “PHOTOSHOP!!!1!!!!!11!”
Seriously, people. You can’t even appreciate a fantastic work of art without trying to act like a hipster douchebag. This is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the world today.
38. Yirka | October 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Not everybody thinks equally and if this way out the world would be bored, I think that this is very cool
39. eug | October 25th, 2007 at 3:21 am
That background makes me eyes go funni
40. Personal trainer | October 30th, 2007 at 7:41 am
That was great! How do they manage to do this? Its wonderful
41. Jeff | November 2nd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
This is fantastic
42. soda24 | November 5th, 2007 at 1:53 am
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070826×1.html/
That says it all.
And Jill, I agree. Why can’t we just have minds that are a little more open? Even if you insist that the pictures have been photoshopped, the most they can do is edit the contrast so that the colors are more visible - you can’t edit a whole field! Especially if it’s on Google Earth.
43. Gllan818 | November 6th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Great!!! Fantastic!!
44. Orella | November 7th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Prachtvolle Photi.Ich hab noch nie so ein KunststĂĽck gesehen.
Lara
45. Icky-Thump | November 8th, 2007 at 3:17 am
Mate, this is wonderful, the whole idea is great…
Very subjective; in the respect that from close up it would look as if the Japanese have just randomly planted the rice wherever… But when looking at the rice from a distance, it forms an image.
Although this ‘idea’ has been used before, with flowers etc… The idea of planting rice like this seems original.
:DDDD
Also, get out of here people that think that someone has used photoshop to produce these compositions.
hahaha !
Go do a tutorial.
46. szuman | November 9th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
hehehe Asia rule:)
47. Quint | November 23rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I think people want to be the first to shout “Photoshop!” Or else they just have no imagination or wonder. They are also the little bastards who go to school and tell all the other kids that there is no such thing as Santa.
Joe, Americans from all over are embarrassed about people like you. You are the type of person that make all the rest of us look like idiots to the world.
48. alice | January 4th, 2008 at 1:53 am
wow, simply amazing. i wonder how did you think to do that.
49. Jurgen | February 1st, 2008 at 2:35 am
Weehoooo what an art of something so special like RICE…. cheers!
50. smith | February 1st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
wooooohoooooooo these are the shit!
51. drawingyou | February 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 am
Very nice.
Very creative.
Nicely done
52. Images toilet&hellip | February 4th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Images toilet
I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view?
53. Rouge Nautilus | February 8th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Wow! Looks like fun to me!
54. prakjash khatiwala | February 21st, 2008 at 6:43 am
Amazing work. can anyone knowing teach us this art near mumbai india/
55. powderhound66 | February 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
those cant be photoshopped.
ima photoshop whiz, and its not photoshopped.
very cool though!
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56. Anna | March 28th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I googled the town. It’s not photoshop! google “Inakadate”. lots of pictures and info!
57. anonymous | March 31st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
HOLY CRAP
that would take like years to do
i wouldn’t have that much patience
58. MICHELLE | May 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
AMAZING
59. andrew | May 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
absolutely amazing what people can create without using anything but their minds and organizational skills.
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