Time-lapse video of rice paddy art

This stop-motion video of the 2008 Inakadate rice crop art is composed of still images captured daily from June 1 to July 3, 2008 via the roof webcam at the adjacent town hall. The 3.7-acre work features the images of Daikoku, god of wealth (left), and Ebisu, god of fishers and merchants (right), which were created using five different colors of rice plants. On July 4, just as the crop was beginning to mature, the organizers shut down the webcam when they removed the JAL ad portion of the artwork at the request of the rice paddy owner.




4 Responses to “Time-lapse video of rice paddy art”

  1. So beautiful. It’s great they took the ad out. Now, it’s pure art. Unlike the crop art near Denver which is an ad not art.

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