While dedicated Bigfoot hunters seem content to relentlessly search for America’s mythical hairy beast, a gigantic and very real beast of another kind has been captured by the roving satellite cameras supplying images for the Google Earth mapping application.
Austrian Gelitin bunny spotted catching some rays on Italian mountainside. Image: Gelitin.
Specifically, a huge 200 foot (approx. 61 metre) rabbit has this week been spied sprawled across a mountain side in the Italian Alps. And, stranger than its bulging eyes, twisted and cavernous mouth, and near-luminous pink fur, tourists visiting the rabbit’s rural Artesina home are actively encouraged to rest awhile on its soft and welcoming belly.
Birthed by the imaginative folk connected to Austrian art collective Gelitin, the big pink rabbit sculpture took more than five years to create, is stuffed with a comfortable straw filling, and is coated in a waterproof skin.
According to Vienna-based Gelitin, the mighty rabbit was designed and created as a piece of interactive art for people to climb on, sleep on, and have fun with while visiting the beautifully mountainous local area.
“It’s supposed to make you feel small, like Gulliver. You walk around it and you can’t help but smile,” commented Gelitin member Wolfgang Gantner in a Daily Mail report. “We like to see hikers climb up the bunny’s 20ft sides and relax on his belly.”
Big enough and bright enough to be clearly seen by Google Earth’s orbiting satellites, the rabbit is expected to remain on the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain until 2025.
Clearly pleased with the exposure the gigantic rabbit is receiving after being spied from orbit, a spokesperson for Gelitin said: “Now even Google Maps is spotting the rabbit from outer-space.”
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