Behold: the Zarooq SandRacer 500GT – a Paris-Dakar bothering 6,2l, V8, 525bhp offroader, of which only 35 will be made.
Yours for a ground-clearing €392,500+.
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Oh Sandy
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The magnificent sand sculptures Of Toshihiko Hosaka (pic2), who’s been refining his granular oeuvre for two decades. Aside from a hardening spray applied to protect the finished sculptures from erosion by the wind and sun, the only material he uses is sand.
Earlier this month, Hosaka’s three-days-in-the-making tribute to 16th century Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto (top pic above) won first prize at the Furlong International Sand Sculpture Art Festival in Taiwan.
On Thin Ice (På Tynn Is) is not your average skateboarding video. To wit:
Ice, driftwood, foamy waves and … skateboards? Four skaters head north to the cold Norwegian coast, applying their urban skills to a wild canvas of beach flotsam, frozen sand and pastel skies. The result is a beautiful mashup — biting winds and short days, ollies and a frozen miniramp.
A teaser short for a longer feature available here.
SAND – second album for post-rock solo project
What you may need to know…
01. Keen observers of post-rock/instrumental ongoings may recall North Atlantic Oscillation, an Irish/English/Scottish outfit based in Edinburgh, releasing thru KScope, that came in for serious critical acclaim in the early part of the decade.
02. They’re fronted by Dublin/Limrock man Sam Healy, whose solo project SAND surfaced with a self-titled full-length in 2013, taking NAO’s soundscaping in a more introspective direction.
03. Streaming above is Seldom-Used Furniture, taken from SAND’s newly-released sophomore effort, A Sleeper, Just Awake.
04. The album is available now on CD and digital. Meanwhile, fans of Healy’s mothership will be happy to learn that a compilation of the band’s tunes is also up for pre-order at present via the band’s site.
VERDICT: Arriving at a mad intersection of post-rock, prog, psychedelia and taking on inflections of jazz, SAND plays with the various boundaries and lines between them all, to glorious effect.
Zen O’Clock
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A clock by London based designers Studio Ayaskan based on the design of a Japanese Zen garden: in this case, raked in the am, smooth in the pm.
South Donegal about an hour ago.
She’s flooded.
(Thanks Joey)
Sundry bizarre and fabulous entries to last weekend’s International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach in Boston.
Here’s the winner, obviously.
Beachaus
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The geometrically precise, Bauhaus/Gehry inspired ‘sand castles’ of sculptor Calvin Seibert on the strands of Hawaii.
More of his work here.
Pat Dowling writes:
“The sands of time wait for no man..Doolough beach Co.Mayo [yesterday]
Inspired by 3D pavement art, New Zealand artists Jamie Harkins, Lucia Lupf, David Rendu, and Constanza Nightingale muck about on the beaches of Mount Maunganui.
More here.
