| The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | TomKjeldsen | 12/12/12 11:56 AM | Bigger Picture Colonisation of the new worlds! In 1938 and ahead Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl proved by a series of sailing trips in rafts of ancient design that it was possible for Americans to reach Polynesia (The Kon Tiki expedition), that Africans/E |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | washi | 12/12/12 7:00 PM | Nice piece of work, Tom. I'm especially impressed with your icons. I'd make them even bigger, so that they show off in their full dramatic splendor. |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | TomKjeldsen | 12/13/12 9:03 AM | Hi washi, thanks. Agree on icon size. During the file research/finding, on and off, simply forgot that I, a while ago, created some 'more than basic' icons in size, image quality and transparency. And then also missed the obvious now almost 'old' abi |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | Noisette (GEC Moderator) | 12/15/12 3:34 AM | Very interesting Tom :) I like the way the photos float above earth when you open the file. I don't know if that was intentional, but it's very impressive! |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | TomKjeldsen | 12/16/12 1:18 AM | Thanks Noisette :) - the 'floating/flying' of photos are deliberate and the intention was to display a sort of 'frontpage' for each of the 4 expeditions to separate a bit, one from each other without having to place a large photo on ground/sea that c |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | Noisette (GEC Moderator) | 12/23/12 3:04 AM | Congratulations Tom, I'm happy to say your post was included in the top content section of the December 2012 edition of the Sightseer newsletter. Those wishing to subscribe to the Sightseer can do so here. |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | TomKjeldsen | 4/4/13 10:15 AM | Thanks very much for previous nice words and the sightseer appreciation of my humble attempt to illustrate the Thor Heyerdahl sailing trips. When I started this idea of using google earth for Kon-Tiki and the other raft expeditions back in february 2 |
| Re: The Thor Heyerdahl Sailing expeditions | Jlueckenotte | 6/3/13 4:17 AM | Happy to find this - after recently seeing the new "Kon-Tiki" dramatic film. Maybe one day I can use the original diary to add events to the file. |