Artist Sam Cox covers his mansion worth £1.35 million in doodles. Read details here

This artist could not stop himself from covering his £1.35million mansion even when the previous owners begged him not to. He used 2,296 pen nibs, 286 drawing paint bottles, 401 spray paint cans, and 900 liters of emulsion. He is also called Mr. ...

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Sam Cox, aka Mr. Doodle, covered his non-Georgian, six-bedroom mansion in doodles which took him two years of work.

Sam Cox is an artist only 28 years of age and has a whopping 2.7 followers on Instagram. He went to Bristol at the University of The West of England to study illustration and spent 16 hours a day drawing.
Sam Cox gained a reputation for being the "Doodle Man." He became famous in 2017 when the 'Mr. Doodle pop-up shop opened."



Google doodle celebrates humanity's first message to aliens
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November 16 2018 marks 44 years since researchers sent humankind’s first interstellar radio message - an achievement Google is celebrating with a Google Doodle.
November 16 2018 marks 44 years since researchers sent humankind’s first interstellar radio message - an achievement Google is celebrating with a Google Doodle.
In 1974, a group of scientists gathered at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to send the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space, called Arecibo Message.

Their three-minute radio message was aimed at a cluster of stars in the constellation Hercules 25,000 light years away from Earth, Google said in a statement.
In 1974, a group of scientists gathered at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to send the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space, called Arecibo Message. Their three-minute ..
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This historic transmission was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of Arecibo's recently upgraded radio telescope, whose 1000-foot-diameter dish made it the largest and most powerful in the world at the time, Google said in a statement.

"The subject of today's doodle lends itself to so many possibilities. Earlier concepts experimented with depicting the recipients of the Arecibo Message and their reactions," said Gerben Steenks, doodler at Google.
This historic transmission was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of Arecibo's recently upgraded radio telescope, whose 1000-foot-diameter dish made it the largest and most powerful in the worl..
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The message was devised by a team of researchers from Cornell University led by Frank Drake.

"What could we do that would be spectacular? We could send a message!" Drake said.

Written with the assistance of Carl Sagan, the message itself could be arranged to form a pictograph representing some fundamental facts of mathematics, human DNA, planet Earth's place in the solar system, and a picture of a human-like figure and an image of the telescope itself.
The message was devised by a team of researchers from Cornell University led by Frank Drake. "What could we do that would be spectacular? We could send a message!" Drake said. Written with the assi..
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Since the Arecibo Message will take roughly 25,000 years to reach its intended destination -- a group of 300,000 stars known as M13 -- humankind will have to wait a long time for an answer, Google said.

In the 44 years since it was first transmitted, the message has travelled only 259 trillion miles, only a tiny fraction of the distance to its final destination, it said.
Since the Arecibo Message will take roughly 25,000 years to reach its intended destination -- a group of 300,000 stars known as M13 -- humankind will have to wait a long time for an answer, Google sa..
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A viral Facebook video of Sam Cox garnered 46 million weeks in just one week. Sam Cox's dream has been to acquire a house and turn it into a "doodle-verse." Sam Cox purchased a mansion in 2019 in Kent, Tenterden.

Sam Cox said the previous owners begged him not to cover the house with doodles, whereas Sam Cox ignored them.
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Sam Cox began his project in the main bedroom, and it took Sam Cox two months to complete the first stage. It is his most extended project, and he has done it alone.

FAQs

Q1. Why did Sam Cox cover his house in doodles?
A1. Sam Cox covered his house in doodles because his dream has been to acquire a home and turn it into a "doodle-verse." He has now fulfilled that dream.

Q2. How many products did he use to complete his project?
A2. He used 2,296 pen nibs, 286 drawing paint bottles, 401 spray paint cans, and 900 liters of emulsion.
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