The World’s Biggest GPS Message

Nick Newcomen has created the world's biggest piece of typography using a car and a GPS tracking device as a "pen." His message "Read Ayn Rand" consists of 12,328 miles travelled and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, covering 30 American states. Created during the spring and summer of 2010, Newcomen turned on his GPS logger device when he wanted to write, and off between letters. He then input the recorded data into Google Earth to create the image above.

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American 20th century novelist and philosopher by the way. Newcomen says “the main reason I did it is because I am an Ayn Rand fan. In my opinion if more people would read her books and take her ideas seriously, the country and world would be a better place; freer, more prosperous and we would have a more optimistic view of the future.” Works for me. I'm ordering The Fountainhead off Amazon right now.