It’s always a bit disappointing when something so inspirational turns out to be a fake. I mean, the idea is still a great one, but I’m still a little let down.
But after bloggers pointed out holes in Nordenankar’s claim, DHL confirmed to the Telegraph that the artwork was an “entirely fictional project”.
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Many 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.Others noted that many of the package’s mid-route stops appear to be in the middle of the ocean.
“[He] could have at least centered the drawing over the land areas, so it would be more believable that DHL had made stops there, as opposed to a DHL plane making loop-the-loops out over the Atlantic,” a reader called Shinanigans posted on the Neatorama blog.
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“A GPS signal cannot penetrate dense materials. That briefcase looks dense enough to block the signal and the roof of a car or thick walls of an airplane blocks the rest,” a blogger named Samppa79 wrote.
Via The Telegraph.co.uk