A Man Takes A Single Rake to The Beach. And When You Zoom Out And See It…

[arcane1]

Mind BLOWN.

If you live in San Francisco, California, then you may be lucky enough to come across the art of Andres Amador. He doesn’t paint or sculpt. He prefers a medium that is temporary but absolutely beautiful: a sandy beach at low tide. He uses a rake to create works of art that can be bigger than 100,000 sq. ft.

He spends hours creating these intricate masterpieces, knowing that the tide will soon come in and wash away his work forever.







Many more images here:

http://www.viralnova.com/beach-art/

[Lars39]

1. Those are wonderful to see.

Thanks for posting!

[jsr]

2. Wow.

[lob1]

3. Crop circles without the crops.

[longship]

5. Crop circles? Do you know what that means?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. That's the point. Crop circles are also human artifacts. nt

[arcane1]

23. I don't expect to see many crop circle enthusiasts in this thread

Perhaps I should've just posted a few of the zoomed-out photos, with the subject line "Mysterious Patterns Appear on Beach".

That would have been pretty evil of me

[Octafish]

24. Really. They're so stupid.

Everyone knows only really smart or talented people could do that.

[arthritisR_US]

4. The beauty of the creative mind :) nt

[Warpy]

6. Nice, puts me to shame

All I ever did was "ban the bomb." I was 12 and the beach was near a military base and they liked to fly low over it to gawp at all the women in bathing suits.

[cui bono]

9. I made a few really bad sand castles with moats.

I have no idea what the "message" was when viewed from overhead.

[nobodyspecial]

7. Makes me wish I was Jessica

[Control-Z]

8. Seriously, right?

Lucky woman.

[cui bono]

10. As long as it's not this Jessica:

http://www.letsscarejessicatodeath.net/

[Fantastic Anarchist]

18. I was going to show my fiance ...

... then decided not to. This guy puts me to shame.

[redqueen]

11. Wow.

Beautiful

[JimDandy]

12. The beauty of the ephemeral. n/t

[leeroysphitz]

13. Impressive. n/t

[rocktivity]

14. What? Is trespassing on people's fields

and trampling their crops not good enough for him?


rocktivity

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. lovely

[PoliticAverse]

17. What, no castles?!... n/t

[idendoit]

19. It's a marvel that these can be done.....

...in a couple of hours.

[Reter]

20. How is that even possible?

How can he do it without seeing it from up above? How are they so perfect?

[arcane1]

21. Practice, practice, practice!

[Democracyinkind]

26. Simply speaking... Math/Geometry...

... Combined with the ability to translate it / scale it into reality. And, I presume, a lot of training. Although we had this one guy in school wo supposedly was able to do something akin to this without ever trying.

[kwassa]

22. Via photography, his work becomes permanent.

[Jefferson23]

25. Extraordinary. Talk about a day at the beach...just beautiful. n/t