Couple Pay Tribute To Kobe Bryant Using A Lawnmower And GPS

Feb 06, 2020 by apost team

In January 2020, NBA legend Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers tragically lost his life in a helicopter crash that claimed a total of nine lives, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, whose dreams of becoming a WNBA star like her father were cut short by terrible visibility on the day of the accident.

Tributes celebrating Bryant's amazing career have taken place around the world, especially in Southern California, and this is where we find Pete Davis and Kelli Pearson have carved an amazing depiction of the late basketball star right on a park in the city of Pleasanton.

To see the grass mural, you need to be at an elevated vantage point overlooking the park, but many people have launched drones to take pictures and record digital video of this temporary public art piece. Pearson and Davis did not think twice about paying tribute to Bryant in this fashion; after all, this is what their company New Ground Technology does, as reported here by USA Today.

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When you look at the finished grass mural, you will recognize Byrant in a traditional NBA photo pose, pretty much the same you get with basketball trading cards: He is smiling in his Lakers uniform and wearing the retired 24 jersey while holding a Spalding game ball. The smile and the confident look he developed after a couple of NBA titles are there. For this specific project, three photographs were used; one of Bryant's visage, another one for his neck, and one of his upper body.

Although the image looks like it was cut and carved into the field, the blades of grass are actually bent according to the New Ground Technology company's website. This technology is quite advanced, and it required years of testing by means of visual interpolation. The software analyzes images that can be plotted by means of precise GPS coordinates, and a special tractor lawnmower is used to comb, brush, and bend the blades of grass. Elaborate images can be "printed" onto grass in a matter of hours, and they can last a few days. There is even a color printing option that uses grass-friendly powdered pigments.

Let your friends know about this nice tribute to Kobe; they may learn something new about these grass murals, which incredibly no longer require cutting and carving.