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A Yoga Sand Sculpture and Time-Lapse Video. Similar to a camera capturing multiple exposures in a single image, artist Katie Grinnan created this sculptural time-lapse of her body moving through a daily yoga routine using sand, plastic, and enamel.

A Yoga Sand Sculpture and Time-Lapse Video

The end result is representative of both time and form as each split second is layered onto the last creating what is both a singular figure and many. Ginnan describes this as an exploration of “peripersonal” space. “Mirage focuses on the concept of peripersonal space, the space that your body encompasses at its most extended point in every direction, which describes the body’s potential boundary.”

Images courtesy Brennan and Griffin. If you like this, make sure you’re familiar with the works of Sukhi Barber and Paige Bradley. Dirt is Good: 18-ton Sand Sculpture Backdrops by JOOheng Tan. Every once in a while, advertising is amazing.

Dirt is Good: 18-ton Sand Sculpture Backdrops by JOOheng Tan

World champion sand sculptor JOOheng Tan was recently asked by ad agency Lowe in Singapore to help create these impressive backdrops for an OMO washing detergent ad campaign. In an age when something like this could have been created digitally, they asked Tan to physically build three 18-ton sand sculptures to be used as backdrops in ads encouraging kids to get dirty. I recommend clicking through to see the pieces above in full size as the details are somewhat lost when scaled down.

Also, the video is pretty phenomenal as it shows the creation and behind-the-scenes execution of each photoshoot. Figurative Sand Sculptures by Carl Jara. Call me old fashioned, but when I think of a sand castle competitions my mind is filled with images of giant structures adorned with mermaids, pirates, and sand dollars, enormous boat-devouring sharks, and faithful replicas of Mount Rushmore or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Figurative Sand Sculptures by Carl Jara

Sand Sculpture Exhibition, Beachside Food & Wine Festival. As soon as we heard about this a while ago we couldn’t wait for the City of Onkaparinga to give more details about this event.

Sand Sculpture Exhibition, Beachside Food & Wine Festival

It’s going to be a must-see for kids… and grown ups! Sand Sculpture Exhibition by Sandstorm Events Monday 25 November – Sunday 1 December 2013, open daily Foreshore, Christies Beach ENTRY COST: Gold coin donation to event charity partner Bedford Group. К пляжному сезону - замки на песке. Слушайте, завтра уже лето!

К пляжному сезону - замки на песке.

Хоть календарное, если уж реального не предвидется... Не знаю, как вы, а я уже мечтаю о море, о пляже, о песочке...Поэтому тема - "в тему". Не столько, собственно, замки, сколько скульптуры из песка.Но начну-таки с замков: 40 Unbelievable Sand Sculptures - Noupe Design Blog. Jun 18 2010 We’ve all made our own sandcastles at the beach but they were nothing like the masterpieces some of the worlds best can produce.

40 Unbelievable Sand Sculptures - Noupe Design Blog

These masters of sand sculpt astounding works of art from nothing more than sand and water. Some of these sand sculptures can takes days to complete using tons of sand. Today we present 40 Unbelievable Sand Sculptures that will blow your mind. So put down your plastic bucket and shovel and check out the real deal. Infinity: A Mind-Bending New Sand Sculpture by Carl Jara. Cleveland-based sand sculptor and woodworker Carl Jara (previously) just won fist-place at the Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Competition with this fun sculpture titled Infinity.

Infinity: A Mind-Bending New Sand Sculpture by Carl Jara

The piece, which also won the People’s Choice award, depicts a series of five consecutive human figures in the palm of another, each one smaller than the last. As an added bonus, he shot a time-lapse video of the entire piece coming together over a period of three days (warning: dubstep). In the various sand sculpture competitions around the U.S. Jara frequently comes in near or at first place with a imaginative range of figurative works. You can check out more photos from the Hampton Beach event on Jara’s Flickr page. 25 Amazing and Beautiful Sand Arts. Sand Sculpture is modeling sand into artistic form. It is also called as sand art, sand brushing, sand painting etc.., Sand and water is the ingredients which are used for modeling sand.

This is mostly done in beach and it started with everyone in the childhood and later it attracts and emerges into few and results in their career. The sand is to be fine in which the grains are connect to each other as good. The structure changes when there is change in temperature and tension in the grains. 40 Fantastic Sand Sculptures. An Ocean of Memories é um projeto tipográfico que homenageia o transatlântico RMS Titanic, no aniversário de 102 anos de sua viagem inaugural, onde veio a afundar.

40 Fantastic Sand Sculptures

Na madrugada do dia 14 para 15 de abril, o Titanic se chocava a um iceberg no Atlântico Norte. Entre a batida e o fim do naufrágio foram pouco mais de 2h40 e deixou mais de 1500 mortos. Homenageando não apenas as vitimas e o navio, que foi um marco da evolução industrial, mas também todos os trabalhadores que de alguma forma, deixaram a sua marca na construção do Titanic. Dos artesãos que construíram cadeiras ou acentaram ladrilhos com maestria, até os heróis que mantiveram as caldeiras até os últimos instantes de vida do Titanic. Após 102 anos do desastre, temos exatamente isso, um Oceano de Memórias.

An Ocean of Memories is a typographic design that honors the transatlantic RMS Titanic, on the anniversary of 102 years of its maiden voyage, which came to sink. Peculiar Abstract Sandcastles by ‘Sandcastle Matt’ No these aren’t the homes of mutant sea creatures or geographic oddities forged from centuries of tidal currents, they’re sandcastles built by a Massachusetts man who goes by Sandcastlematt.

Peculiar Abstract Sandcastles by ‘Sandcastle Matt’

Using found objects like vines, plywood, and other junk he creates a sturdy framework to which he applies the classic drip method sandcastle technique resulting in these strange temorary structures that look like contemporary land art pieces. One of Matt’s sandcastles recently made the rounds in a viral meme suggesting his work was the result of lightning striking sand, but Scientific American debunked it.

Amazing Sand Sculptures For Your Inspiration. Weston Sand Sculpture Festival. Somerset - Entertainment and Leisure - World famous sand sculptures return.