Sand Dancer

Peter Donnelly does awesome sand art on the beach.
LINK: Youtube

Sand Art by Ilana Yahav - SandFantasy - "One man's Dream 2010"

A new sand art from Ilana Yahav for 2010 - "Our Man is sitting in his office, worn down by the weight of life in this hustling, bustling city... He dreams of the simple life and nature, peace and tranquility. One man's short dream and then . . . back to reality." Music by - Georges Chatelain
LINK: Youtube

"You've Got a Friend" 2009 - SandFantasy

"You are not alone. You've got a friend, who will help you through your pains and sorrow and will always be at your side..."
A new sand art from Ilana Yahav for 2009. LINK: Youtube

Flood volunteers begin filling sandbags

‘Sandbag Central’ is set to go for volunteers who start filling sandbags in Fargo Monday. Officials aim to have 3 million sandbags filled by March. To get there, they’ll have to work 8 hours a day. Sandbag stations can fill 5,000 bags an hour. LINK

KID DOES AWESOME SANDRAIL WHEELIE

"6-year-old, performs a wheelie to end all wheelies in the sand!” LINK: LiveLeak

The Sand Dollar - An Animal that can Clone Itself

The Sand dollar is well named – it looks like a coin after all. However, this denizen of the Pacific coast has a trick up its sleeve. It can clone itself.

Bizarre, but true. A few years ago scientists discovered that the larvae of the Sand dollar are able to clone themselves. When they were exposed to the mucus of their natural enemies – fish – they demonstrated a unique defense mechanism. They cloned themselves which meant more or less that they halved their size. It is thought that this new smaller size helps them to avoid detection by fish and so increase their survival chances.

Link, Via: Neatorama

TOP 5 STRANGELY COLORED BEACHES

“Unless you’re lucky enough to have visited some of the unique shorelines below you’ll probably be used to seeing – at best – golden beaches on your travels. In fact a lot of people believe golden sands to be the only option when it comes to beaches. To prove otherwise, and to show off a few of the world’s most uniquely colored stretches of sand, we present the following selection.” w/ photos. LINK

70-Foot Sandcastle

We're going to need a bigger bucket and spade. LINK: Youtube

Man in the Sand: Gordon Gano & The Ryans

Boing Boing Video presents "Man in the Sand," from Gordon Gano and the Ryans' new record "Under the Sun." Video dorected by Matt Mahurin. LINK: Youtube

Surrealistic Sand Animation

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Un Trou a la Place du Coeur (A Hole in the Place of the Heart) is a short sand animation film by David Myriam. He writes that it describes “When the violence of individuals generates the birth of an unverifiable collective monster.” Run time: 3 minutes.

LINK, Via: Have You Seen This? | Artist Website | Artist Bio | YouTube Channel

Atormenta

Atormenta
by cesarlinga

Atormenta: Stop Motion Sand. LINK

Diego Stocco - Music From Sand

The entire track is created only out of tuned sand tones. No additional sounds or waveforms.
I emphasized the inner notes of the sand grains and mapped them on a sampler as a series of instruments. The grooves are all played live with various techniques, including taping two piezo films to my fingers. LINK

Making Glass in a Grill

All the components of glass can be found in two places: the beach and the laundry room. It’s possible to melt pure white-silica beach sand into glass, but only at temperatures of 3,000 to 3,500°F. Washing soda, lime or borax (a traditional laundry aid) added to the sand disrupts the quartz-crystal structure of silica and reduces the required temperature to a more practical, though still dangerous, 2,000°F, which I achieved with a backyard grill and a vacuum cleaner. Glass is thought to have been discovered around 7,000 years ago by Phoenician merchants when cooking fires were built over sand that, by chance, had some of these substances mixed in.

Go to LINK to see slideshow and to see the video.

Ilana Yahav - Sand Animation Artist

http://www.sandfantasy.com/ Via: Youtube

Hellraiser’s Pinhead Sand Sculpture and Other Amazing Sand Art

Web Urbanist blog has a neat post about 10 sand artists and their amazing artwork. This one above is a sand sculpture of Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies by Latvian artist Helena Bangert.

Link, Via: Neatorama

This Is Sand

This is Sand is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen to digital sand that can be used as building material for cosmic landscapes or mandalas.

Press or double click the mouse button to drop sand. Press C to pick a color. E to erase the drawing. LINK

Sand Sculpture video

“Pollution and beach development are destroying marine life this quickly”. A cool way to deliver message, provided as a sand sculpture by Surfrider Foundation. LINK: Youtube

Sand Art - Ilana Yahav - "Let's Get Together"

llana has such a graceful way of showing her tallent and the standard of her art is excellent. LINK

"Sand Drawings"

A lot of talent and creativity. A must watch. Interesting how they go from one Sand Drawing right into another without ever really clearing the screen totally.