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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]
Beach calligraphy
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Sep 2, 2009 05:45 AM
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So these are carved using a long stick? Or are the footprints are erased afterward?
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If this was a legal copy of Photoshop? Sorry, but in this wicked world, I even don't trust myself.
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Thanks for the link!
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Damn prawns, they should all just get off our planet and go home.
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Babelfish translation: "...and thanks for all the plankton."
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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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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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