Beach calligraphy

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2009/09/02 @ 6:00 am
Category Art & Design, Energy, Makers, Photography & Video

Andrew van der Merwe cuts letter-forms into the beaches near Cape Town, South Africa, and takes lovely photos of the results. [via Dude Craft]

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7 Responses to Beach calligraphy

jeff-o on September 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am said:

So these are carved using a long stick? Or are the footprints are erased afterward?

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- Stefan Hermann on September 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 am said:
  
  If this was a legal copy of Photoshop? Sorry, but in this wicked world, I even don’t trust myself.
  
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Paul Overton on September 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 am said:

Thanks for the link!

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Colecoman1982 on September 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm said:

Damn prawns, they should all just get off our planet and go home.

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Les on September 2nd, 2009 at 2:09 pm said:

Babelfish translation: “…and thanks for all the plankton.”

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Andrew van der Merwe on September 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 am said:

I learned a new word the other day: asemic. I’ve been messing around with all these weird and wonderful African writing systems in my beach calligraphy for quite while, inventing my own stuff from it, and it turns out there’s a whole special category for it in art. Look it up – asemic – serious stuff, or not.

&rew, beach scriber

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Andrew van der Merwe on September 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am said:

Looks like my first attempt to comment got snagged on a URL I stuck in there. Just as well as I made a stupid sour comment. Adjusted version:

Hi, guys.
Sorry, can’t resist diving in here.

Photoshopped? Tsk! It reminds me of another comment I occasionally get about my usual on-paper calligraphy: “What font is that?” Then if I tell them I just wrote it, they want to know why I didn’t just use a font. Plebs. If you want to be sure this is genuine, check out the Burster project on Behance. You can see some of the process.

Long stick? I left sticks behind about 6 years ago. The instruments I now use cut the sand out. I then chuck it behind me or into a bucket and cart it off the scene.

Footprints? That’s the easy part. I levitate. The hard part is getting the calligraphy right.

“… and thanks for the … “? hee hee. If you really wan to know what it says, read the source code of the image.

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