{"id":821,"date":"2006-08-16T22:24:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=821"},"modified":"2007-11-20T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:28:20","slug":"how-to-make-crop-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/16\/how-to-make-crop-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make crop circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeattractor.co.uk\/fieldguide\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/crop_circles.jpg\" alt=\"crop_circles.jpg\" id=\"image820\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeattractor.co.uk\/fieldguide\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Field Guide: the Art, History &amp; Philosophy of Crop Circle Making<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nby Rob Irving &amp; John Lundberg.<br \/>\nEdited by Mark Pilkington<\/p>\n<p>Three decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that continues to change people?s lives to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the first book of its kind\u2014part history and part how-to guide\u2014the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed, by the people behind the modern era?s most astounding artform. Whether you think crop circles represent a genuine mystery, a new kind of art, or an elaborate practical joke, <em>The Field Guide<\/em> is sure to leave a lasting impression.<\/p>\n<p>The English landscape would never be the same again!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How two men in their fifties &#8220;conned the world&#8221; and spawned an international phenomenon.<br \/>\n\u2022 Three generations of crop circle makers tell the stories behind the amazing crop formations, in the first book of its kind.<br \/>\n\u2022 Secrets of the artists revealed in a complete &#8220;how-to&#8221; guide!<br \/>\n\u2022 Inside the world of the &#8220;croppies&#8221;, the people who study the crop circles.<br \/>\n\u2022 Bizarre beliefs examined, bogus science exposed!<br \/>\n\u2022 In-depth interviews with Doug Bower, the man who started it all, and The Circlemakers, the team behind some of the most spectacular formations on record.<br \/>\n\u2022 From the team behind www.circlemakers.org and the editor and publisher of Strange Attractor Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a38.99, Pb, 288pp, heavily illustrated. ISBN 0954805429<br \/>\nFile under Art \/ Culture \/ Paranormal Phenomena<br \/>\nAvailable late August 2006 from all good bookshops<br \/>\nor from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeattractor.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.strangeattractor.co.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/circlemakers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.circlemakers.org<\/a><br \/>\nStrange Attractor Press<br \/>\nBM SAP<br \/>\nLONDON WC1N 3XX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Field Guide: the Art, History &amp; Philosophy of Crop Circle Making by Rob Irving &amp; John Lundberg. Edited by Mark Pilkington Three decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/16\/how-to-make-crop-circles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to make crop circles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,16],"tags":[955,98],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-occult","tag-mark-pilkington","tag-strange-attractor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}