formations, formations, formations
you don't have to scream a lot to keep an age in tune...
(from top):
Two shots taken, post-harvest, of the so-called 'Surrealistic Pillow' formation, which appeared at Windmill Hill, Wiltshire, in June 2000. We like post-harvest pictures, especially when they're as pretty as these ones. A friend of ours rates this as one of the best formations ever, for some peculiar reason. Why is is called the Surrealistic Pillow? Go ask Alice.
Note that you can still see the outline of the formation very clearly in these pictures. Why is this? Four theories. 1. The design was imprinted into the soil as the 'circlemaking energies' created it. 2. The formation was marked out first with construction lines before the sections were flattened. Because these lines were trodden rather than stomped the crop was pressed harder. 3. Croppies visiting the formation trod crop and seeds into the ground. 4. A combination of 2 and 3.
Go ask Alice. Photograph by Peter Sorensen.
Avebury, Wiltshire, July 2003; a fine formation, in our view. Note the construction ring, the only circular element in the formation. Photo courtesy of Peter Sørensen.
Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, August1999. 'Mere lodging!' we say...
Another fine formation, though note the uneven alignment in the arms of circles. Who said all the best circles were geometrically perfect? Photo by Peter Sørensen.
Judge me not,
for my ally is the circlemaking force.Ask Poppy - Poppy Amersham (Added August 2003 / revised Summer 2008)
In which Poppy addresses some of those cerealogical conundrums that have been vexing croppies young and old.
This was one of the very first articles posted on this site, in August 2003, and it has gone through various revisions since then. This Summer 2008 version has been considerably expanded with additional questions and answers and is about twice as long as the original.
Not So Vital Signs - Poppy Amersham (written and first posted Summer 2003, re-posted January 2008)
Wherein Poppy takes the Signs movie to one side and asks it to have a word with itself. This was posted on the site when we first launched but seems to have disappeared in amongst our first bunch of updates; though it's old news we thought we'd re-post it.
Fear and Loathing
In Wiltshire (June 2007) - Darren Francis
(Added June
2007)
In which
DF visits some 2007 Wilts circles.
Stunted Crop At Garsington (Added August 2005.
Revised May 2007)
In which we detail some anomalous crop affects we noted in a
field in Garsington, Oxfordshire in 2005. We revised this feature
in May 2007 to include information on a 'ghost' we noticed in the same
field in 2006.
Videos
(Added May
2007)
Some favoured or interesting cerealogical videos from YouTube.
Taking A Plank
For A Walk (Added March 2006)
In which we examine the (untrue) notion that people don't get
caught making crop circles.
Stonehenge
- Poppy Amersham (Added August 2005)
We have to
admit to being disappointed that nobody responded to our request (posted
on this site on our News page on 8th March 2004) for photographs, taken
either from Stonehenge or from the roadside, of the July 1996 Julia Set
formation. Here's why.
Crop Circles:
Evidence Of Shoddy Research - Poppy Amersham (Added January 2004)
Wherein Poppy
takes Nicholas Montigiani's Crop
Circles: Evidence Of A Cover-Up outside, and gives it a thorough
kicking.
Proof
- Poppy Amersham (Added August 2003)
Got some?
Let us know.
End Of Season Barge
Inn Crop Circle Blues - Darren Francis
(Added August
2003)
In which Darren goes in search of some circular solutions,
and ends up meeting a ball of light and discovering a new formation.
Circular Evidence
& Questions Of Belief - Darren Francis
(Added August
2003)
A look at
the varying degrees of cerealogical 'evidence' sometimes requested.
Rorschach
Blots & Mandalas: Adventures In Circle Perilous - Darren
Francis (Added August 2003)
This article
was first published in issue 29 (Autumn 2000) of The Cereologist, wherein
John Sayer prefaced it by saying "Pulling no punches, Darren Francis
casts a critical eye over crop circle analysis."