Just some guy, you know?

glumshoe:

nostalgebraist:

I know that all the evidence about crop circles indicates that they are made by people (they’re more common in areas with higher population and easily accessible areas, they started appearing much more often after the public got interested in them, those two guys revealed that they made a bunch of them and explained their process, etc.)

But what I want to know is how random people manage to pull it off

Like, I know there are professionals who make them for commercial clients, etc., and they have a lot of resources.  But if you’re just some (drunk?) friends making a crop circle for fun one night, how do you make it look good (from above)?  Do you have one person on a really high ladder giving orders?  Are there are a bunch of “shitty” crop circles out there, made by people who don’t know what they’re doing?  And how do the good techniques spread from place to place, given that there don’t seem to be in-depth public resources about it?  Is there an underground network of crop circlers out there, swapping tips?  Has any journalist gone looking for it?

I used to have a small collection of photos of bad crop circles, but I can’t find it now. There are actual crop circle artists who have it as a hobby, and they do have forums and stuff - I figure they have clubs. I’d guess that most people who fuck up really badly just “erase” their mistakes by making larger, more solid circles, and crop circles made by drunk friends just can’t be made large enough to attract attention.

There are some photos of unfinished circles… 

and circles that get abandoned when the artists are disturbed…

and straight-up shitty ones…

but one of my all-time favorites is this terrible Hungry Hungry Caterpillar…