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 😂😂

[@rturpening]

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

[@anhphuong3139]

Ya dog?

[@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.

[@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.

[@smallfaucet]

This really grew on me.

[@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

[@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...

[@anonymousgal5586]

Threadbanger should do this

[@mangalori]

What a brilliant idea!

[@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

[@Titan-ll9kn]

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

[@MartinTabanag]

how beautiful art can be

[@carolinekangwa4304]

Phenomenal!

[@jennhoff03]

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

[@aswin964]

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

[@yudhaprawira2947]

They take art to the next level this is so crazy

[@binoybhatt]

Loved it . Superb.. respect there passion for photographs

[@agmy13]

Creativity at its best....

[@Automedon2]

Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd - how fortuitous

[@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!

[@Jacob_EstateAgent]

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

[@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

[@julianschaper178]

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

[@Vanegas613]

absolutely amazing.

[@zarnasanghavi416]

this deserves so many more likes..

[@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👍😘

[@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?

[@spockomemes2610]

This is incredible and unique

[@etpaprika]

I will always miss you Great Big Stories🥺🥺

[@ssjmichael]

Coolest thing I've seen in a long time

[@charleskesner1302]

Fascinating

[@the_lonelyfoxart]

SOOO COOL!!

[@Rissy617]

this is incredible!!

[@donnawalker3910]

Fascinating!

[@mr.snippy]

Beautiful and amazing.

[@sabnarini1395]

Remarks sense of creativity 👏👌

[@christinecameron1612]

WOW! Very very cool!

[@KhaulaSArt]

Amazing!

[@mdinunzio7610]

Amazing

[@gfxminer4809]

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

[@kurobara6230]

This is SO clever!!

[@sandihunt]

WOW!

[@Digitalhunny]

*So, Many, Questions!!*

[@aryanamin1361]

This channel must be youtubes no 1

[@baaharali9476]

Lobe these artists

[@ruslanography4700]

Love this

[@princessalice8322]

How Clever!!!

[@anasrul9582]

amazing how they do that

[@rubabch11]

Wowwwwwww, it's amazing

[@mandycampbell329]

one word Amazing!

[@DrClawizdead]

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

[@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

[@Sam-dg6ty]

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

[@seunonijamah]

Awesome!

[@tellydianadayondon6534]

Wow

[@OSNDUXKAA]

Were they trying to make us pity grass at the start

[@mystrioushawk]

Incridible 😮😍

[@CK-ug8nc]

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

[@noiruuu]

Silently Me explain

[@gaboratoria]

Imagine a room covered completely in grass

[@romeblanchard3419]

magnifique

[@nicholascervantes151]

you had to be STONED to think of this

[@deeep124]

Wow 😍amzing

[@kaylapua9822]

Their art IS making grass grow!

[@lusunuator]

Great! But what is the "water paste"?

[@BalrajSingh-nu9bx]

Thts amazing

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

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

[@yoonguitarpick]

green is my favorite color

[@BigBudde]

super cool =)

[@baaharali9476]

What they are using to stick soil on wall

[@whatwedeserve]

Striking!

[@Hyena_Heckler]

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

[@akinhwan]

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

[@altafal-khattabi6839]

WoooooooW

[@avisakibaleibolatagane2102]

The green lady would loooooooooooooove this

[@-otrocken84-99]

nice

[@muhammadummar4796]

Nice

[@aphidh.8365]

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

[@mrschneider9685]

Everybody gangsta till the photographers are grass

[@micoflores9356]

genius

[@May-tm4wb]

Wowwwwwww

[@messeduphina566]

So fucking amazing

[@Synchrowize]

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

[@monkeyguy80]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😊

[@Thefaithcamille]

i'd buy their artworks..

[@rizkydermawan8955]

IS THAT KHAL DROGO??!!!

[@pokwang1091]

If only finearts was this easy T,T

[@akroia1986]

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

[@Pacifica1]

Can they or *Great Big Story* adopt me?

[@qjones6109]

Who mows those grass houses tho

[@jackdaalfbrainork6392]

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

[@majj6598]

Just add... Asda

[@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.

[@thinkinginsideout4053]

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