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The Year in Sand: 2002: 02M-11
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The Year in Sand: 2002. An overview, with images and stories, of my sand sculptures in 2002. It was a busy year, with old ideas coming to new shapes, and new ideas following them. People wander the damp narrow brick street under myriads of colored lights. Shop fronts are glowing and fake frost decorates their windows. Even in a place where one has to drive an hour to find snow, it's associated with holidays. I'll be right there! A couple of cats come out, and then become alert. Here it is.". Unfortunatel...
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The Year in Sand: 2002: Multiple Returns: 02M-1
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The Year in Sand: 2002. An overview, with images and stories, of my sand sculptures in 2002. It was a busy year, with old ideas coming to new shapes, and new ideas following them. The Architect and the Ringer. Hi Who are you with? Great You're in plot #3, over there.". Thanks. Is there anything in the rules about using only sand within the plot? OK I'll go get the rest of my equipment.". Two eager surfers, pausing on their way to the waves. I was hired to do the job.". Oh, a ringer! June 30. That's a...
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The Year in Sand 2007: Wind and Light (07F-2)
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The Year in Sand 2007. Wind and Light (07F-2). Friday, there was just enough time between low tide and sunset to get a sculpture off. I'd have to be quick. I checked the sand Thursday after work and while the fine sand layer is thinner it's still there. The only question involved wind. Usually after a storm there's wind. I got lucky. About an hour before sunset the wind died down and shifted to the west. The day ended cool, calm, and with very nice light. 1765 by Larry @. January 21, 2007 10:54 AM.
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The Year in Sand 2008: 08P-2
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The Year in Sand 2008. 2008 by Larry @. Comments: Post a Comment. The Year in Sand 2008. Santa Monica, California, United States. View my complete profile. The Year in Sand 2008.
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The Year in Sand 2007: Not Ready for the Storm
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The Year in Sand 2007. Not Ready for the Storm. They said it would rain Saturday. I thought perhaps I should sculpt on Friday but real life intruded. There were errands to run and the closest I got to sculpting was to detour by way of the beach to sample the sand. It's always moving around. Surprisingly there was a thick layer of fine sand, which pretty much dictated things for Saturday. The idea was derived from previous sculptures. I wanted a more curving and integrated look for this one, so I shap...
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The Year in Sand 2007: Learning the Mass: 07P-10
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The Year in Sand 2007. Learning the Mass: 07P-10. Rising from the Past, Changed. 25 years ago I had an idea but not skill. It was all I could do then to make a simple catenary arch ten inches tall. In the following month I made more arches, all of them affected by not knowing what I was doing. Title: too many to list. Location: Venice Breakwater, south side. Start: about 1315; construction time approx 3.5 hours. Height: about 3.5 feet. Base: 3X1.5 feet roughly. Photo volunteer: By Rich. It's kind of disc...
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The Year in Sand 2007: Intuition! (07P-9)
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The Year in Sand 2007. 1765 by Larry @. Comments: Post a Comment. The Year in Sand 2007. Santa Monica, California, United States. View my complete profile. The Year in Sand 2007. This is a sculpture-by-sculpture view of the year. The ideal is that each sculpture is better than the last, but the design process being what it is, this is not guaranteed.
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The Year in Sand 2007: Fog, Wind, Spray: 07F-6
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The Year in Sand 2007. Fog, Wind, Spray: 07F-6. Spring is interesting. Inland it might be 80 degrees while we shiver on the beach. Better cool than hot for sand sculpture. I got lucky on this one. The fine sand came back, in a thick bed beneath a few inches of coarse overburden. All I had to do was remove that. Much better than the backbreaking work of "cream-skimming.". 1765 by Larry @. Some very beautiful work there. I hope to be able to see something like it when I go to California this Summer.
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The Year in Sand 2007: Blown Away! (07F-9)
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The Year in Sand 2007. The next day seemed better. Until I got to the beach. Well, maybe it's calmer than yesterday. The sea didn't seem quite so wind-excited. Still, there was a layer of flying sand over the beach, and my borrow pit filled with blown-in sand as I built a sculpture atop the stump of the previous effort. Build number: 07F-9 (lifetime start #319). Title: "Wind Made Visible". Location: Venice Breakwater, on the flat. Start: approx 1215; construction time wind-limited to about 3.5 hours.
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The Year in Sand 2007: Losing the Bottom (07F-3)
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The Year in Sand 2007. Losing the Bottom (07F-3). Sorry, guys, I can't resist this.". OK We turn at Tower 20, anyway.". Would that count for the weekend's sculpture? The sculpture's initial idea was derived from the previous day's relief experiments. I wanted to make the side of the sculpture undulate around a space. I carved that part and then the rest just pretty much happened. You can see that initial space in the upper right of the image below. Freed from the heavy engineering constraints of tall scu...
