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.
at 11:12 pm
wow, those are incredible
at 11:16 pm
awesomely inspiring…and the use of color and scale…Wonderful!
at 11:22 pm
Sorry to be that guy, but I am calling photoshopped on a couple of these. Why would they put Napoleon on their rice fields anyway?
at 11:42 pm
*rolls eyes* @Dan, there’s always the i**** who calls photoshop without knowing what he’s talking about, and it simply isn’t true. These were featured on the news in Japan last night. They usually do Japanese-style ukiyo-e, true, but they also sometimes take scenes from famous paintings, of which the Napoleon is one.
I really want to visit these, I wish my area’s rice farmers were as artistic!
at 12:04 am
These are ‘shopped. They are real, but the scale and precision are touched up, as well as the colors.
at 12:35 am
why do people always say photoshopped? Dan is stupid. Maybe Dan’s brain is photoshopped as well. Pity.
at 12:55 am
omg that’s so cool
at 1:34 am
WOW…aliens in asia are much more talented then the aliens doing those crop circles everywhere. these came from a class of alien i could really get behind.
at 3:05 am
These are hawesome. It would have been even cooler though to have a strip mowed out behind the Shogun’s blade, as if he were cutting the rice.
at 3:29 am
Dude, three words: Photoshop.
at 4:23 am
There’s always that D-bag that’s gotta call “SHOPPED”. ‘ I’m so smart i called that photo out! every one must think i’m sooo smart’ your a douche
at 4:52 am
its awesome and all but lets face it the japenese have way to much time o their hands
at 5:07 am
Shopped… who would make pictures of ducks in a rice field….
at 6:03 am
I live ten minutes drive from here ^_^ I didn’t help plant it this year but I’ll probably go cut it.
at 6:07 am
Man can you imagine the hassle in trying to shop a rice field to look like that
would be easier to plant it
at 6:57 am
You shouldn’t be allowed to call photoshoppeed unless you’ve actually used the thing.
Does he realize how time-consuming it would be to first put down the image in perspective (its easy to do it with relatively linear pictures, but forget about using the perspective tool for fish-eye or wide angled shots), then mask the individual grass blades so that it doesn’t look like grass blades are two different colors. Then you have to do each blade of grass on the shots where the uncolored spots show more soil. Forget about it.
at 7:00 am
the aliens gotta came back to put on a lot more awesomer stunt on this.
at 7:01 am
this is very cool
at 8:55 am
Faaaaaake, photoshopped, gay, the cake is a lie etc etc..
But seriously, its pretty cool, I wonder how they got the correct dimensions etc
at 10:42 am
Who cares if some i**** kid calls it Shopped. They probably think there’s a toolbar button called “rice art”. Back to the point… these are incredible but how do the farmers find the time to to this AND compete in ninja warrior?
at 11:12 am
These are awesome. Maybe the aliens ‘shopped them…
at 11:45 am
Never underestimate the power of the Asian people…..they can do anything everyone else can but 10 times better! =)
at 1:04 pm
LOL @ Keepa
Hahuhhauhauahaha
I think this kid dont know what is possible with a computer.
at 2:55 pm
@ AV
Of course they can do anything as well as everyone else – including photoshopping.
at 3:41 pm
Wow you guys are stupid. I bet your mom was photoshopped. I mean, No you’re right. I didn’t just come back from vacation here and haven’t seen these myself. I’m sorry I’m on LSD and they don’t exist even though I’ve seen them in the past two weeks. I’m a big liar.
They were awesome btw.
at 4:26 pm
Perhaps they just spend more time planning, and have practice at doing this. It is amazing, and if you want to be artistic in a new way you would take the time. If you were to lay out string lines for different crops you could use them as a grid to plant the seeds in the correct pattern. Its doable.
(maybe the person just likes ducks)
at 4:37 pm
shopped. icantellbythepixelsandfromseeingafewshopsinmyday. why would aliens create rice art of napoleon in japan?
at 5:47 pm
Why would Japanese make on rice Jose de San Martin and his horse?
I am pretty sure that’s him over there. http://www.clarin.com/diario/especiales/sanmartin/images/gblack4.jpg
at 6:05 pm
That’s seriously amazing, it must take a lot of forethought to achieve.
at 6:11 pm
They probably are photoshopped,but that doesn’t mean you have to ruin the magic. They’re cool and I don’t honestly know or care whether they’re shopped or not.
at 6:20 pm
Duh, it is so obvious that they used advanced technology to photoshop the ricefields. I mean c’mon, photoshopping pictures is sooo ’90s.
at 6:29 pm
Doesn’t that kill the rice? Looks like common spray paint
at 6:32 pm
Obviously shopped. Well done, but shopped.
at 7:28 pm
Super cool!!!
Why Napoleon? Why not? It’s a famous painting. Japanese people appreciate French painting (it’s by J-L David) as Americans or Canadians or Germans.
Why ducks? Because they’re cute! It is the country that has Hello Kitty department stores after all.
And they’re not uniformly great, which seals it for me.
at 7:30 pm
For once I’d like someone who calls “PHOTOSHOPPED!” to explain exactly HOW it was Photoshopped if you’re all such genuises at the program. I have seen rice art such as this IN PERSON, and I assure you it’s real. There are people in the world with talent enough to actually make stuff like this and not just sit at a computer and spend hours trying to fake it. That would be incredibly pointless. Get off your Photoshop high horse and explain to me how these could possibly be Photoshopped for once. Thaaaaaanks!
at 8:00 pm
What makes me wonder is: isn’t it a hassle to harvest the rice when it’s three different kinds all mixed up? Or doesn’t that matter?
at 8:02 pm
Dude, those are… Awesome. What even freaking inspires them!?
at 8:32 pm
AWESOMEOMEOMEOMEOMEOMEOMEOME
at 9:41 pm
It wouldn’t take hours to ‘shop’ such an image.
You cut out the image you wish to overlay and then simply overlay it onto the image of a rice field.
Changing Blend Modes will quickly make the ‘painted’ image merge with the base image of the rice field.
It would take less than 30 minutes to create such an image. Probably about 15 minutes average.
I’m sure that someone may have done some sort of real crop planting art at some time, but some of those images are obviously ‘shopped’.
As requested, I have explained the process before calling my theory.
Thanks for playing.
at 10:42 pm
Those looked like “Cropped Circles” to me..
at 1:10 am
Granted.. these possibly could be photoshopped if you really wanted to. I doubt these are. Why ducks? Its F****ing ASIA! THEY LOVE DUCKS! Ducks are delicious! If these where ‘shopped dont you think they would have come up with something better than ducks though? I’d do something cool like a naked chick riding a Transformer!!
at 1:38 am
My guess is that everyone that is saying “shopped” just stumbles the net til they find pictures that are rediculously awesome then they post “shopped” without even looking at them for more than 18 seconds. Now, if someone actually sat down and spent however many hours it would take to decide whether or not they are truly photoshopped, then said “shopped” I would probably believe them. But since all the people who have posted “shopped” haven’t even tried to provide any proof, and since everyone knows the Japanese are very ingenuitive and creative, I’m gonna go with real. (And awesome!)
at 5:34 am
Photoshopped or not… is it really a good idea to be painting our fields like this?
at 5:54 am
Honestly, I believe that the Japanese would be willing to waist their time to create these.
IMHO these are real. Being a graphic arts major, I agree with the previously stated hours to shop these. I bet they took weeks to plant.
at 6:26 am
This is a popular and growing (pun intended) phenomenon in Japan – or perhaps our brilliant ‘shoppers can explain how the Japanese achieve the same images on TV. Seems like the 3-D rendering would cost more than the planting.
They rarely plant rice by hand in Japan now – do they have a machine that can plant in patterns, like a weaving machine?
at 12:02 pm
It is easy to assume that everyone here who calls “photoshopped” is an average American, likely never left his state of residence. In America NO-ONE would EVER take the time, or have the skill to accomplish things like this. Asia is filled with skilled artisans, and most Americans don’t realize this.
Some poor old Japanese man would have worked from 4am-8pm for weeks planting each seed by hand. America is incapable of producing amazing pieces of work like this, but that doesn’t mean something so magnificent HAS to be photoshopped.
at 1:38 pm
Definitely not shopped.
I’m a professional Graphic Artist & digital photo restorer with over 15 years experience. The level of skill and time it would take to “Photoshop” even one of these pictures would be ridiculous. With the technology available today it would be easier to write a program to plant the field in the precise pattern needed to achieve each picture rather than manipulate each photo (some down to the individual blade of the rice plants) for both photo & video media. In the future please be able to explain your “idea” of how to achieve the complex coloring involved in getting each individual blade colored correctly in more than three of four vague functions. That may work for a simple photo where no one is trying to make the end product look realistic, but on a project like this… let’s get real. Save your explanations for someone with little to no experience.
btw…these are a beautiful artist expression from a culture that truly understands beauty in all it’s forms.
at 3:33 pm
very cool… and if it is photoshop kudos to the designer.
at 4:01 pm
Shopp’d, fux0rs.
and to you people going apeshit like “omg no it wud b 2 hard”. Well, obviously it’s not done from scratch. Morons. These “rice-paintings” probably exist, but they have been made nicer with photoshop. Fucking idiots.
at 5:00 pm
Obviously aliens did that.