Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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Musashi
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I know about the worlds smallest fiddle. I can only assume this thing is being readied for the apocalypse.
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AKA Gyoza
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Lakov_Sanite
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Well, how else are we going to challenge the devil to a fiddle contest?
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Korachia
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I know about the worlds smallest fiddle. I can only assume this thing is being readied for the apocalypse.
Yeah, now we only need to find the smallest fat lady that can sing, to accompany the apocalypse and we're golden. |
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Korachia
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Just saw this on wikipedia:  How could that not end in a mess? |
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IainC
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Sandcastle of awesomeness spoilered for size
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NiX
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Jesus, that's amazing.
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K9
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Link doesn't work for me
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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K9
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OK, that's awesome
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Cyrrex
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I cannot even fathom how someone even approaches such a task. Human beings are occasionally very amazing.
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Ironwood
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Link didn't work for me either.
Now I've seen it, I'll add my own Holy Fuck.
That's some impressive stuff. More so due to the transient nature of the art. Not sure I would put myself through that with sand...
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Mrbloodworth
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That cant be just water and sand.
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Signe
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It's not. Did you look at the pictures? There's a wooden frame. I think that was the sand sculpture exhibition in Venice. My sister sent me pics of that one. She's an artist who is actually capable of doing stuff like that. There were sculptures at these sorts of exhibitions that were even more complex and interesting than this one. I'm with the group that likes to look but doesn't want to become that intimate with sand. Not that I'd make much more than a mess anyway.
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Samwise
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It looked to me like the wooden frame was just to allow them to reach the top of the sand pile without disturbing it when they were sculpting that bit, and they disassembled the frame as they worked their way down the mountain. I think the final structure is indeed just wet sand. Very impressive.
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LK
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Impressive but fragile.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Signe
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I didn't mean they made a wooden model of the actual sculpture, just that it's sat on a wooden frame. There's sand inside the wooden layers. They use these huge blocks of compacted special sand and then do their sculpting. It doesn't seem super fragile while they're making them, but I'm sure a good swat with a big foot could do some damage. They don't do it this way all the time, but that's how they do it for that festival. I saw a video of it being done, though not that exact one, and I don't know where to find it now. Look HERE to avoid my crappy descriptions. Sorry. |
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Merusk
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They used to do 2 of these every year at one of the local malls. A summer one and a Christmas one. They were always damned impressive, taking about 2-3 weeks to complete.. but the fuckers left sand EVERYWHERE. It was indeed just water and sand, and they'd mist it once in a while to keep it together. By the end of the display time the stuff at the top would have started crumbling/ wearing away just due to the natural air movement. They're pretty impressive up close.
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Musashi
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I thought they 'misted' with hairspray to help hold it together. I don't know anything about these guys specifically, but I know that dudes I've seen do sand sculptures on the beach do use hairspray. I don't think it would hold together after the sand dried otherwise.
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pxib
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Ironwood
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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K9
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Oh I just got that.
Fantastic
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Holy shit. That is, indeed, awesome. In fact, that's something that I'd buy and put on my wall.
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Sky
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What a waste of time. Just have a bird shit on the canvas and sell it for six figures, ffs.
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Mrbloodworth
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What a waste of time. Just have a bird shit on the canvas and sell it for six figures, ffs.
True that. |
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Nebu
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What a waste of time. Just have a bird shit on the canvas and sell it for six figures, ffs.
It's skill appreciation. Some people pay to listen to guitar wankery. Some pay for photorealistic art. I personally don't like either, but can appreciate the skill and dedication it takes to produce. |
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NiX
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What a waste of time. Just have a bird shit on the canvas and sell it for six figures, ffs.
Almost time to put you in a home it seems. |
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Teleku
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I think some of you fell into the sarchasm.
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Draegan
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I don't get the awesome.
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Trippy
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Supposedly that's hand drawn.
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pxib
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I don't get the awesome.
Look at the guy's DeviantArt gallery. He's been doing this for decades. Based on the focal blur I assume he's painting from photographs, but he's obsessively accurate about it and for all I know he can do this stuff from life now. He refers to his work as "neopostmodernultracontemporarysuperhyperrealism". |
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Yes, I think we all get that. At least, I hope so. That's what made it particularly good for me, anyway.
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schild
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IMO, it's a waste of talent. He's obviously got an amazing amount of it (maybe more than every painter I've ever met) and yet he's wasting it on boring as hell compositions while squandering his creativity (if he has any). Looking through those 3 DA pages, it doesn't point towards him being a creative genius though.
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pxib
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Looking through those 3 DA pages, it doesn't point towards him being a creative genius though.
Sure. This kind of painting is more craft than art. I imagine, like most hobbyists, he's doing it for fun rather than because anybody else cares. |
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