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Over twenty Argentinian farmers and massive fans of football legend
Lionel Messi, grew a giant portrait of the popular player in their corn
fields, as a tribute.
Lionel Messi has millions of fans all around the world, but nowhere is
he more beloved than in his home country of Argentina, where most people
see him as nothing less than a god of football. Messi recently led the
Argentinian national team to win the 2022 World Cup, which made him even
more popular than before, but his true fans were sure this was going to
be his year even before the tournament started. For example, shortly
before last year’s World Cup kicked off, more than 20 Argentinian
farmers used a farming engineer’s planting algorithm to create giant
portraits of Messi in their corn fields.
“I had the idea to make a code that goes in the seeders with Messi’s
face as a tribute,” farming engineer Carlos Faricelli told Reuters,
adding that he then freely made it available to any farmer brave enough
to use it. In the end, more than 20 farmers in different provinces of
Argentina joined him.
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“We all risked it, because we ‘tattooed’ Messi’s portrait in the middle
of the drought,” Faricelli told TN Argentina, but at least some of these
risks paid off, as Messi’s iconic portraits started rising up literally
from the ground as the corn plants sprouted.
The farming engineer explained that thanks to his special algorithm, the
machinery knows how much seed per square meter it has to plant in
certain places to create the contrast for various parts of Messi’s face.
“So when this corn grows and an aerial shot is taken, where the plants
are closer together and the ground is less visible, a more intense green
contrasts with where there are fewer plants and then this kind of
agriculture art is created,” Faricelli said.
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Planted before last year’s World Cup, the “agricultural tattoos” of
Messi recently started taking shape, and photos and videos of different
fields from all over Argentina have been making their way online. |