May 15, 2008
Sand sofa
The world's biggest sofa made from sand
Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art
Unrelated: Leonidas sings Pink Floyd (YTMND)
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January 14, 2008
All Hail The Giant Sand Heads
Republican Sand Castle Heads taken in front of the location of The Republican debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on January 10, 2008
The sand art of Russian sculptor Zadunyuk
How to fill those Sand Art Bottles
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October 01, 2007
The Sand Castle
The Sand Castle is the story of the Sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand
(Clip above by Sandartist)
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July 24, 2007
Sand Squid
From The Netherlands, the art of Stijger collective
Goaaal by Gianni Schimarini. (From Not Cot)
The work of Meridith Corson & Dan'l Doubleday
The World's Tallest Sandcastle and Other Sand sculpture Marvels
Art by Montserrat Cuesta
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April 14, 2007
Sand Blasters
Sand Blasters 2007: The Extreme Sand Sculpting Championship. (YouTube)
Face Sculptures in Zhengzhou
Sultans of Sand. (Thank you, Rich)
More from The World Championships of Sand Sculpture Competition at Harrison Hot Springs
The British seaside tradition of building sandcastles on the beach with bucket and spade has long been overtaken by a new art form in various parts of the world - sand sculptures. With the right sand consistency and a few simple tools, the possibilities of building spectacular sculptures are endless
No time to blog tonight either. Sorry
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December 29, 2006
Fate of Saddam
Sand People, a photograph that I help propagate on the interwebs 2 years ago, made it to a Fark photoshop contest recently
A Master Sand Sculptor
Biblical stories sand sculptures
Students join sand sculpture artists to create a giant Santa Claus sculpture on the Puri golden beach, in the Indian state of Orissa on the eve of Christmas, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006
Photo above from same story: Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik gives finishing touches to a sand sculpture titled Fate Of Saddam at the Puri beach Bhubaneswar
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September 25, 2006
Belgium sand sculptures
Matt Kaliner’s different sand castles and how to make a sand castle the Matt way. A Sandman
Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge, Belgium
The Art of sand sculpture by Paul Hoggard & Remy Geerts
Building Sandcastles on Worth 1000
B3TA's Tribute to 9/11
Sandpainting is the art of painting ritual paintings for religious or healing ceremonies. It is also referred to as drypainting. Sandpainting is practiced by Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, by Tibetan monks, by Australian Aborigines, and some are known to be made by Latin Americans on certain Christian holy days
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June 16, 2006
More Summer Sand
Explore Andres Amador’s Harmony in Pattern
Rake art from a kite
“Team Sandtastic” of Sarasota, Florida is now competing in rock stacking & rock balancing as well as sand & ice sculpting
Re-post: At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or Shiny mud balls. How to build a perfect, shiny dorodango (In Japanese mostly, but with lots of pictures)
Sand sculptures, as recorded by Jonathan Stewart
2006 Championships of Sand Sculpture Competitions at Harrison Hot Springs and at Brighton & Hove
Myrtle Beach Claims To Have World's Largest Sandcastle
Falling Sand Game, Chirag Mehta’s Java applet
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March 17, 2006
Sand and water
Official rules of The Harrison Hot Springs 2006 World Championships of Sand Sculpture Competition & Exhibition. Sculptor's Choice Awards from previous years
Ilana Yahav is a sand animation artist. Using only her fingers, Ilana draws with sand on glass table. Watch the clips
Re-post: Coin Operated Enigma, from Kirk Rademaker’s Sand Machines
Falling soldiers at Arlington West, Santa Barbara
David Bradley Billings’s Sand Sculptures, Snow Sculptures and Pumpkin Carvings. (Thank you, David)
Sandscapes Sand Sculpture Photo Archive
2005 Neptune Festival and Sand Sculptures
Moon Sand, a new product from SpinMaster
Sandman sculpture above by John Gowdy. Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Sand Sculptures Galleries and Ice Sculptures Galleries Here
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July 30, 2005
Sand World
It’s time for somebody to develop a website (or a blog) that will show the step-by-step construction of elaborate sand sculptures in details. I’m certain it will become an immediate internet hit. Until then:
HellRaiser. (From ”Unoriginal”)
World Sand Sculpture Festival Brighton 2005, by sculpture grrrl. All her flickr sand sculptures sets. All of them
Mythos Europa. (From Ursi’s blog)
Man charged in sandcastle destruction at the fifth annual Sand Sculpture Contest at Hampton Beach
Sand Sculptures Festival in Haifa (June 2005)
Camera Cellphone made out of sand
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May 23, 2005
More sand
Pixar & Disney sand sculpture show in Australia
New, expanded galleries from the impressive artists at Sandsational
Natural sand art from Western Australia and world heritage area, Fraser Island, Queensland
Al Sharpton sculpture by Art in Cleveland
Cropless Crop Circles. Large designs have been appearing on San Francisco's ocean beach tidal flats at low tides
A funny short that sums it up: GorillaSuit's Everybody at the beach. (From Wikipedia about "Giavasan")
Wikipedia about sand painting
Dora Dallwitz’s Rope Story installation
Formula for perfect sandcastle unveiled
I am on a short vacation this week. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Grow-a-Brain’s Extensive Sand Sculptures Galleries and Ice Sculptures Galleries Here
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October 31, 2004
Hummus heads
Sand sculptor Rich Varano uses a plastic spoon to mold busts of Bush, left, and Kerry from 300 pounds of hummus at the Kosher fest trade show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York
Re-post: The International Sand Collectors Society
Grow-a-Brain’s Sand Sculptures Collection used to be among our most popular links when we first blogged it. Here are some new entries:
A close-up of artist Rod Becklund
Rusty Croft’s amazing sand sculptures and ice sculptures
Neptune Festival, Virginia Beach
Sandsong by G. Augustine Lynas
Sand Scuplture at Dublin Castle
Interview with sculptor John Gruber
Un-related: Press the red button to hear how much I like you
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July 28, 2004
One Grain
Kinetic Sand Sculptures by Helmut Baur
Among the most popular things to buy in Jordan are the decorated sand bottles , sometimes with the most intricate designs. The inventor of the sand bottles as art was Andrew Clemens (1857-1894. Sorry, a Tripod site)
Disney Sand Sculptures. (Probably in Orlando, or such place)
The Amazing Wild West Festival of the “Nederlands Zandsculpturenfestival”
Sudarsan's Indian Sand Art
Arch for Arch Sake by Amazin' Walter
Not so artsy - Drip Castles
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June 06, 2004
D-Day!
Footprints in the sand
I dreamed that I was walking down the beach with the Goddess. And I looked back and saw footprints in the sand. But sometimes there were two pairs of footprints and sometimes there was only one. And the times there was only one set of footprints, those were my times of greatest trouble. So I asked the Goddess,
"Why in my greatest need did you abandon me?"
She replied, "I never left you. Those were the times we both hopped on one foot."
And I was really embarrassed for bothering Her with such a stupid question...
(From "DRT News")
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May 11, 2004
Time to go to the Beach
Easter Jesus Sand Sculpture at night - ”Thy will be done”… More figures with beards
From “Worth 1000” Bizarre Architecture Photoshop contest
This mandala sand painting is a gift to New York City from the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery to commemorate the tragic events of September 11 and to honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Venezuelan artist, sculptor Jose Luis Gonzalez, turns sand into art
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April 03, 2004
Wow -Peace Mandalas
Combining street painting, Tibetan sand Mandala Construction & the longing to instill the symbolic meaning of the rainbow into viewers’ hearts & minds, artist Dean Edward Mulroy have been creating stone mandalas throughout Scotland, England and Ireland. His artworks evoke the best of street painters & production of anonymous monks.
I noted earlier today on the many Mandala resources available on the web. Look below for the many links about sand Mandalas & sculptures
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Even More Amazing Sand Sculptures
The sand sculptures collection that we published in February proved to be very popular. Here are more links. If you find any unique sites about the subject, please send them over.
"The Jewel in the Lotus" - Another photo series of Tibetan Sand Mandalas found on “Boing Boing” this morning. An extensive source for information about great mandala sites is here. See our archives below for some amazing sites about the construction of Tibetan Mandalas.
Thurgood Marshall Sand Sculpture, Wanna Play? and Pushing Chevron Sand Sculpture from Elwin Designs
FDNY “Never Forget” Sand Sculpture from “Sandsational”
On Todd Vander Pluym website, you can see a sand sculpture the size of a football field
Nude sand sculpture's censored Rio
Survive This from the Galveston AIA Sand Sculpture Contest - June 2, 2001
Greg Grady , sand sculpturer
"The Simpsons" in Sand from "Sand Wizard"
Inaxi from Holland
From Steven Petruzates Studios
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March 09, 2004
Do not attempt to eat those - they are made of sand!
In any field there are niche markets created. Below are more specific sand sculptures;
Randy Hofman’s Christian-themed Sand Sculptures
Glossary of sand sculpturing terms and "Things to ask before hiring a sand sculptor", from “ShadeTree Studios”.
Interactive tabletop sculptures , a modern twist on the classic hourglass
Pictures From 2003 ASIA TALLEST (some phallic details…)
More of “Sandy Feet” Still life sculptures. To the left, a detail of Picasso’s “Dream”,translated into sand. Below, “The sneeze”…
Sensuous life-sized images of sand mermaids
Amazin' Walter from South Padre Island, Texas
If you’d like a linkage, you’ll be better off by using the Main Sand Sculpting collection .
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February 23, 2004
Yes, Bernie at “Deep Fun” reminded me that there’s yet another world of sand sculpting that we included in the old “Grow-a-Brain” -Tibetian Mandala art. What goes into the Construction of a Sand Mandala ? (7/27/03) And a paper model of the Guhyasamaja 3D Mandala project (12/26/03). See overhead view of same here
More sand sculpting from “Mutant Eggplant”
(See more of the old Spirituality links here)
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February 22, 2004
I had no idea that the world of professional sand sculpting is so elaborate. I think everybody should know about it. So here you go:
Benjamin Probanza's "Sand Dreams"
Making Waves and Algarve, Portugal. Both from Kirk Rademaker, sandcastler, builder of sand machines)
"Gone With The Wind" by "Sandscapes", 12 World Sand Sculpture Championship Titles
Infamous 9-11 Plane Crash sand sculpture
Sand Jesus. From Spain: Mary & Jesus
Larry Nelson's 02F-2 and 02F-17 ("What Hatches from the Sandragon's Egg?"). (From Sand Hands)
From the International Sand Sculpture Scheveningen 2002. From Scheveningen 2003
Table Top Sand Sculptures (From Team Sandtastic) - from 15 to 200+ Tons.
Ephemeral Dirt Sculpture Erected by an Indian Beggar
"Walk-thru" sculptures, (From "The Sand Sculpture Company")
Still Life from Sandy Feet
Harrisand World Championships, September 7-12, 2004.
Russian Association of snow, Ice & Sand Sculptors.
"Sandman" Scott B. Dosch on Venice Beach 1996
Zeebruge '04 (I guess that until July 16, it's just a beautiful photo). Architectural Color Changers in Belgium. 13 Aug. 2001
2003 Sand Sculpting Competition Winners at Hampton Beach. Solo winners 96
How to Build a Sand Sculpture (for kids)
Steve Machell, Sandologist of Byron Bay
"A dog's Life". (From Damon Farmer)
Couple on the Bridge.(From Harrison Lake Sand Sculpture Competition 2003)
Natural Sand Sculpture, and another
Scrapbook of exceptional creations that were designed to disappear. Old Photograph and postcard views of ice palaces & castles, butter & sand sculptures and large cakes , from Folk Art of the early 20th Century
Our earth as Art. Artists that use earth as art: Robert Smithson, Christo, Stan Herd, Alice Mckay Barnett. Also, Jim Denevan, beach artist
Bonded Sand Sculpture by Bill Mack
Wall Sculptures from Barry Swires
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