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Every Year People Flock in Marvelment to Enjoy the birth of 'Sand City' PIC

haha.nu — Remarkable pictures from the 2007 Sand City competition, held in Antalya, a tourist town in Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. These creations have always just blow me away.

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  • PeTeRZz, on 10/10/2007, -7/+5Part of me wants it to rain
    • lex0429, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1id rather have a giant wave but ill settle for some rain
  • LeafInTheWind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8How do they get so much detail into the sand!? I can barely make a bucket of sand stay upright
    • Emzoo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0They do the exact same thing near me, it's so cool!
      • jjremy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ok, so that comment, in absolutely no way, answered the question presented.
    • isamuelson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It's actually not that difficult. You basically mix sand and water to form what is called "glop". You just start piling that up and you use different sculpting tools to start sculpting the sand. You can use spoons, forks (with the middle prongs removed) and other items. I was given a set of sand sculpting tools for Christmas once and I can't do anything as elaborate as what you see in these pictures, but after practice, you can get a lot accomplished. My best sculpture at this point is a turtle. I started with sand castles and buildings and then this past summer attempt an animal. That took about 3 hours to do and it wasn't that big. It just takes a LOT of imagination and patience. Here's a link to the tools I have: http://www.sandtools.com/tools.html. They're pretty inexpensive ($13) and you get a lot of different tools that allow you to do just about anything you see in this story. Every summer we go to Lakeside Ohio and I usually do something on the beach. This summer I got my 7 year old nephew so into it that when he and his family went on a vacation in New England, he won first place twice for two different sculptures he did. His first was a Sphinx and some pyramids. The next was a lion, complete with a mane and everything. So, if a 7-year-old can do it, just about anyone can!
  • Dralite, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Prince Ali, fabuous he, Ali-a-Buah-Buah....
  • swoopdog, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Sand Castles rock my world!
  • berktt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Wow that is a ***** shame... I actually live in Antalya yet I have never seen this place before.
  • DiggMasterJ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I bet they got sand in places sand should never be.
  • edru, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8is that last one spreading its "lips"?
  • ChefAnubis, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1is it just me or did anyone else got the urge to pee all over those statues.
  • cklol, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11And then it started raining.
  • JohnnyHotballs, on 10/10/2007, -13/+0no wonder we call them "sand *****"
    • mburk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I get the part about sand, but why again do we call them that?
    • berktt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1thats funny... never seen a black man in turkey, ever.
    • Trublmakr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Please don't say "we". You represent all ignorant douchebags but that's as far as it goes.
  • ElbridgeGerry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Marvelment?
  • dakilla91, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Impressive stuff. Kudos to the artists.
  • PetroSan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1cool, but the sand sculptures at the Neptune's Festival [september] in VA Beach are just as good if not better every year.
  • rxzhang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6TOP 40 best Sand Sculptures (40 pics)
    http://www.linkinn.com/_TOP_40_best_Sand_Sculptures_40_pics
  • Fr00sh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Woah, that's amazing!
  • tuntcickle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0where are the sand *****?
  • morchibby, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Marvelment?


    Edit: Damn, missed ElbridgeGerry`s comment.
  • KolosoK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I want a hose.
  • Petzke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Why is the sculpture in the second to last picture spreading his vagina?

    Wow, I've got to stop watching so much porn.
  • chicoer2001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Some Brazilian sand sculptures
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexsegre/171334106/in/photostream/
  • antalyanakliye, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0http://www.antalyanakliye.com/
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