Take a stone for a walk and become an artist

IF you’ve come across a small pile of stones here on Oldham Road recently then you’ve just been part of a massive public art work being co-ordinated on a blog which is spanning the length of Britain.
The idea of creating a trail of stones is nothing new according to the founder of Britglyph, Alfie Dennen who says that this attempt to create the world’s largest geoglyph is just the latest activity of its kind since prehistoric times.
He’s asking people to travel, witha stone, to locations along the route he’s mapped out online, take a picture of themselves with the stone at the location and then leave the stone behind before uploading the photographic proof to this interactive map.
(Look carefully at the Manchester map and you’ll see a trio of the city’s digerati have already made it there!)
“I guess I’m doing it because it can be done, and all of the elements totally fascinate me,” said Alfie.
“The actual piece of art, a symbolic representation of John Harrison’s Marine Chronometer , was chosen because it, in my way of thinking, was the absolute lynchpin of the modern age; without it the age of empires could never have happened.”
Alfie, 32, a creative technologist from London, built the project using the mobile blogging site moblog. The aim is to create marks along the chain snaking down from Aberdeen all the way down south.
Each of the markers represents a spot somewhere in the UK which users can travel to and be a part of the art work – but hurry, the project ends on January 9.