Timelapse of Sand Sculpture Masterpiece

Master sand-carver John Gowdy re-creates the beheading of Anne Boleyn. LINK: Youtube

Michael Jackson Remembered As Creepy Sand Family

Hey, what MJ tributes haven’t been done yet? Playing his music videos 24/7 on MTV offshoots we didn’t know existed, club DJs throwing in constant 9-song MJ blocks over the past month… nah, everything’s taken. LINK

OH WAIT – what about sand??

Stop Motion Sand Sculpture

These pieces at El Segundo and Manhattan Beach here in Los Angeles.

The time-lapse sculptures typically take around 2 hours. The stop motion ones usually take 6-7 hours.

The music is LTJ Bukem "Breezeblock Mix". LINK: Youtube

Sand sculptures

A sand castle is a type of sand sculpture resembling a miniature building, often a castle. The two basic building ingredients, sand and water, available in abundance on a sandy beach, so most sand play takes place there, or in a sandpit. Tidal beaches generally have sand that limits height and structure because of the shape of the sand grains. Good sand sculpture sand is somewhat dirty, having silt and clay that helps lock the irregular shaped sand grains together.

A variant on the sandcastle is the drip castle, made by mixing the sand with water and dripping it from a fist held above. Some refer to the technique as “dribbling.” When the slurry of sand and water lands on existing sand structures. LINK

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