Quick Pic: Star Wars Sand Sculpture

Star Wars Rebels Sand Sculpture

Photographed by Nussshhhhhh

Video: World's Tallest Sand Castle

"Built For It™ Trials - Sand Castle: Cat® Products Build World's Tallest Sand Castle"

When they’re not stacking Jenga blocks, the guys from CAT are playing on the beach. They recently helped to construct a sand castle which measures over 41 feet tall. Then they tore it down.

"When the world’s your sandbox, you can think big—Guinness World Records big. Watch Cat equipment construct the world’s tallest sand castle in the latest edition of the Built For It trials."

Sculpture: The Old Ticker

"The Old Ticker" Sand Sculpture by Rusty Croft

Sculpture: Angry Birds in Sand

Angry Birds Sand Sculpture by Czech sand artist Jakub Zimacek

Jakub Zimacek created this tribute to everyone's favorite mobile game for the Sandstorm Events "Storyland" show at the Frankston Waterfront in Victoria, Australia.  The event welcomed teams of sculptors from around the world to bring their favorite story book characters to life.  The event is particularly impressive in light of the fact that it required a total of 3,500 tons of sand for all of the entries.

In addition to these Angry Birds (which are characters from a recent Penguin novelization of the game), there were sculptures for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlotte's Web and Where the Wild Things Are.

Performance: Minecraft Steve

"Art With Salt - Minecraft Steve" by Bashir Sultani

Sculpture: Attack on Titan

Japanese publisher Kodansha posted this time-lapsed footage of sand artist Toshihiko Hosaka creating an Attack on Titan sculpture at a beach in Enoshima.  The sculpture took ten days and over eighty tons of sand to create.  It was created to commemorate the release of the manga's eleventh volume, which shipped in Japan on August 9th.

Sculpture: Guy-Olivier Deveau Sand Art

 "Bleeding" photographed at South Padre Island, 2013.
Sand Sculptures by Guy-Olivier Deveau (Iscariath)

Quick Pic: Sand Space Invaders

Sand Space Invaders by Martin Artman

Sculpture: Infinity

"Infinity" by Cleveland-based woodworker Carl Jara

Gold Medal and People's Choice at the Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Competition

Installation: Masterplan

"Masterplan" by Chad Wright

Photographed by Lynn Kloythanomsup of Architectural Black.

Masterplan is a installation by designer and artist Chad Wright inspired by his own experiences growing up in a sprawling suburb of Southern California. The piece is meant to juxtapose the playful childhood experience of building sand castles on the beach with his brother against the grim, modern-day reality of our current real estate collapse. 

Sculpture: Icarus

"Icarus" by SheilabytheSea

Sand sculptures, Sand World Weymouth, March 2013

Sculpture: Time Machine & Metropolis

"Time Machine & Metropolis" by SheilabytheSea

Sand sculptures, Sand World Weymouth, March 2013

Sculpture: Doctor Who Sandcastle

Doctor Who Sandcastle
Created to commemorate the series' 50th Anniversary
Source: AccioSonicStarKids

So, these photos began floating around the web this week.  I managed to find the original source, but she didn't provide much in the way of background details.  I gather these were created as a marketing ploy to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, but other than that, I've got nothing.  Let's just keep our fingers crossed that more viral marketing appears in the near future!

Link Round-Up: March 28, 2013

This Gollum Sand Sculpture was created for a sand-sculpting competition hosted by the British town of Weston-super-Mare.  This year's theme was "Hollywood." Photo by Matt Cardy. Source: AV Club

Ghost Mice are a 'FIRST-WAVE folk-punk band' who sing about playing Dungeons & Dragons as a metaphor for overcoming depression, wanting to be loved like John Hickley loved Jodie Foster and recycling so Cthulhu doesn't invade. They've recorded splits with other folk-punk bands like Andrew Jackson Jihad and Defiance Ohio. Ghost Mice's song Monsters Get Slain is a heartbreaking anthem about healing from a lifetime of depression.

How to make an amber egg with a bug inside it, for your inexplicably Jurassic Park-themed Easter celebration.

Illustrated Anatomy of Popular Disney Characters

Sculpture: Minas Tirith Sandcastle

Minas Tirith Sand Castle

"Into the West" by Joseph Alvernaz

"The first major sand sculpture I did was a replica of Minas Tirith from Return of the King. Made entirely out of sand and water with no reinforcement or adhesives added, save for a single brace added in the top tower since it kept getting broken by birds."

Photography: Sand Drawings

Sand Drawings by Tony Plant

Sculpture: Sand-y Claus

500 Sand-y Claus Statues by Sudarsan Pattnaik

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on the beach of Puri in eastern Indian state Orissa’s Bhubaneswar, where master sand artist Pattnaik, along with 30 padawans, created a record-breaking 500 Santa Clauses out of sand. It may not be the North Pole, but I still wouldn't want to be caught in a Grinch get-up inside shouting distance of this shoreline.

Video: Salt Darth Vader

"Art With Salt - Darth Vader" by BashirSultani

Sculpture: Geometric Sandcastles

Geometric Sandcastles by Calvin Seibert

"I always have these ideas that I want to try but somehow in the attempt to get something done by the end of the day I turn towards my old standby solutions. I need to spend 6 weeks on the beach all at once. As it is I only get a day here and there and go whole years without building anything. If I could manage that I might get somewhere new."

  

Quick Pic: 8-bit Sand Sculpture

8-bit Sand Sculpture by Guy-Olivier Deveau

July 2011 sandcastle competition in Parksville, BC, Canada