Growing Portraits with Grass | That’s Amazing

Grass is something that most of us take for granted. We walk all over it, we lay on it and sometimes mow it down. Few appreciate grass the way Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd do. And yet their art can stop you in your tracks. By manipulating the natural processes that fuel life itself, these British artists blur the line between science, nature and art, all while drawing attention to climate change.
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[@Dipi4pinoy]

That's what I call "photo" synthesis.....
I'll show myself out

[@2012iwanttogohome]

Dipi4pinoy 😅👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@brandonvilla2420]

Dipi4pinoy nice👏

[@ulkg]

Dipi4pinoy 🥁🥁 tssss

[@greatchoice166]

i lovev u for this😂😂😂

[@neetam3186]

😝😆👌👌👌👌👌

[@NighteeeeeY]

"grass is something we take for planted....."
wait. what?

[@pytheale2642]

NighteeeY granted, lol

[@tobi3181]

NighteeeY 😂😂

[@meganp8766]

WOOOW, this is just mind blowing how people utilize resources. I have to show this to my biology teacher, we just finished learning about the process of photosynthesis

[@markl4997]

God you have talented researchers finding such unique and unheard stories.

[@rturpening]

Meanwhile, I can't fix the dead spot in my yard

[@anhphuong3139]

Ya dog?

[@FajriNanda]

i want photo like that in my wedding..

[@FajriNanda]

Basil Gan yeah, you right.

[@ReXox35]

it could be a DIY project

[@anonymousgal5586]

A new DIY for Rob

[@smallfaucet]

This really grew on me.

[@cdabcdefg12345]

Do you like water your paintings once you buy it?

[@PhongTran-ps2fc]

Cal Only if you want it to last

[@DiscoFang]

As soon as this is exposed to regular light the picture will fade to one colour. Well, the opposite of fade, the yellows will become green. They failed to mention this aspect of it.

[@SweetDisaster24]

Now that is so freaking AMAZING! I would have never thought you could create something so beautiful from grass! The same grass we all take for granted, walk in, abuse, cut etc... it's just stunningly beautiful! WOW

[@WagwanItsBonbon]

This is the most incredible art medium I have ever come across. Wow. Speechless 😍

[@GloryDaze73]

Creative people are awesome! thanks for sharing your work.

[@66impala71]

One of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Beautiful!

[@rohithsid]

no words..... arts is one of the eternal forms.... this video is really awesome....

[@kittenmimi5326]

I can't believe how stunning the results are n how simple the process is...

[@mangalori]

What a brilliant idea!

[@jennhoff03]

I have never seen anything like this! It's just... I mean... it's phenomenal.

[@Titan-ll9kn]

Whoever came up with this idea first, you are up there with da Vinci in terms of creativity 👏

[@carolinekangwa4304]

Phenomenal!

[@MartinTabanag]

how beautiful art can be

[@yudhaprawira2947]

They take art to the next level this is so crazy

[@agmy13]

Creativity at its best....

[@simofish]

WOW, that's amazing !!! If you're reading this you are loved, you are beautiful, you are strong, and someone out here in this big ole world thinks you are amazing. Thank you for being you!

[@aktamakov]

The portrait idea is really cool but it’s not a new thing, when I was little I was trying to do the same thing with apples. My grandpa had old gardening book, it showed bunch of cool stuff for garden and one of them was explaining how sun and light interacts with vegetables and how you can see it yourself by doing art on apples. You have to make a film of your design or just a stencil and put it over Apple when it’s still young and cover the rest with something dark and let it grow till it gets ready. When it’s done, you get the same effect as they did with the grass. Where film was darker it stays way lighter, almost white, where it was exposed more to the light it gets dark red.

[@jovian8389]

Who cares, no one is claiming this is a new idea

[@Automedon2]

Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd - how fortuitous

[@binoybhatt]

Loved it . Superb.. respect there passion for photographs

[@anonymousgal5586]

Threadbanger should do this

[@aswin964]

After watching the video, i left and then remembered that i forgot to like it...came back and liked it. Awesome stufff!!

[@Jacob_EstateAgent]

This is what internet was made for , to learn about such wonders free of cost

[@julianschaper178]

This deserves more views! It's very educational. It deserves a lot more then it has. ~

[@barcelonachair6487]

Absolutely Beautiful! Very reminiscent of processing photos before digital. Watching a picture come alive in a darkroom, although this picture may need a lawnmower?

[@ishita_singh]

To one of my dearest Great Big Story,
You guys are doing some awesome work. I love your channel a lot and plz keep up the good work👍😘

[@zarnasanghavi416]

this deserves so many more likes..

[@ssjmichael]

Coolest thing I've seen in a long time

[@spockomemes2610]

This is incredible and unique

[@Vanegas613]

absolutely amazing.

[@aryanamin1361]

This channel must be youtubes no 1

[@etpaprika]

I will always miss you Great Big Stories🥺🥺

[@mdinunzio7610]

Amazing

[@sabnarini1395]

Remarks sense of creativity 👏👌

[@KhaulaSArt]

Amazing!

[@CK-ug8nc]

You can do this on apples too! And well... many other things really.

[@noiruuu]

Silently Me explain

[@Rissy617]

this is incredible!!

[@donnawalker3910]

Fascinating!

[@charleskesner1302]

Fascinating

[@piyalibiswas6533]

How long the portrait lasts? I mean it's grass so can't last indefinitely right?? But the idea behind it is absolutely overwhelming

[@Digitalhunny]

*So, Many, Questions!!*

[@gfxminer4809]

some football/soccer or whatever league should feature this on their league match

[@the_lonelyfoxart]

SOOO COOL!!

[@DrClawizdead]

If they got married, and he took her name, he could be Dan Ackroyd.
In before someone points out it's spelled differently.

[@rubabch11]

Wowwwwwww, it's amazing

[@Sam-dg6ty]

1:07 I thought she was going to say "MEGA F*GGOT" 😂😂

[@baaharali9476]

Lobe these artists

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

I've seen similar images grown in Japanese rice paddies!

[@mr.snippy]

Beautiful and amazing.

[@OSNDUXKAA]

Were they trying to make us pity grass at the start

[@yoonguitarpick]

green is my favorite color

[@christinecameron1612]

WOW! Very very cool!

[@anasrul9582]

amazing how they do that

[@Hyena_Heckler]

I think I need to go to sleep because I read the title as "growing up with portable grass"

[@princessalice8322]

How Clever!!!

[@mandycampbell329]

one word Amazing!

[@kurobara6230]

This is SO clever!!

[@gaboratoria]

Imagine a room covered completely in grass

[@sandihunt]

WOW!

[@kaylapua9822]

Their art IS making grass grow!

[@lusunuator]

Great! But what is the "water paste"?

[@mystrioushawk]

Incridible 😮😍

[@akinhwan]

watching this in 2023, i had an idea like this organically yesterday!

[@ruslanography4700]

Love this

[@seunonijamah]

Awesome!

[@tellydianadayondon6534]

Wow

[@deeep124]

Wow 😍amzing

[@nicholascervantes151]

you had to be STONED to think of this

[@mrschneider9685]

Everybody gangsta till the photographers are grass

[@avisakibaleibolatagane2102]

The green lady would loooooooooooooove this

[@BigBudde]

super cool =)

[@romeblanchard3419]

magnifique

[@BalrajSingh-nu9bx]

Thts amazing

[@-otrocken84-99]

nice

[@whatwedeserve]

Striking!

[@baaharali9476]

What they are using to stick soil on wall

[@rizkydermawan8955]

IS THAT KHAL DROGO??!!!

[@Pacifica1]

Can they or *Great Big Story* adopt me?

[@Synchrowize]

if this was an american got talent video, it would have got millions of views.

[@Thefaithcamille]

i'd buy their artworks..

[@muhammadummar4796]

Nice

[@messeduphina566]

So fucking amazing

[@aphidh.8365]

Anyone noticed the title of the place with the pipe that's smoking?
:)

[@micoflores9356]

genius

[@pokwang1091]

If only finearts was this easy T,T

[@altafal-khattabi6839]

WoooooooW

[@thinkinginsideout4053]

This real living art worth a price. Not that modern abstract trashes.

[@E-Kat]

I won’t grass on them how they got this idea!

[@Labroidas]

1:26, she said "biodiversity LOSS", not "laws". The subtitles are wrong.

[@May-tm4wb]

Wowwwwwww

[@qjones6109]

Who mows those grass houses tho

[@akroia1986]

What would happen if it'll be placed on a more natural environment than controlled? I assume the chlorophyll would eventually even out.

[@jackdaalfbrainork6392]

Never has the “green thumb” been strong in this one

[@monkeyguy80]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😊

[@majj6598]

Just add... Asda