Brutalist Sandcastles
Nov. 20th, 2016 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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deputychairman:
lucyaudley:
erisis:
mostlysignssomeportents:
Calvin Seibert makes modernist sandscastles on Coney Island. At Little Atoms, Caroline Christie interviewed him about his remarkable creations.
I like making things and tend to work with whatever is at hand. Building sandcastles at a beach to me is a very natural thing to be doing. As a child, I saw photographs of the French ski resort of Flaine. I was very taken by the brutalist buildings, designed by Marcel Breuer. Since then I have always gone out of my way to see brutalist architecture and when I build sandcastles I have them in mind.
Technique:
A five-gallon paint bucket is essential. Paint buckets are particularly rigid and have a nice sharp edge for digging with. Then it is used for carrying water. Lots and lots of water. The tools are all made of plastic. I have a couple that are nothing more than a small rectangle of 1/8-inch plastic with a beveled edge and then a couple of trowels of different sizes.
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A couple years ago I had to come to rather startling terms with the fact that Brutalism is my favourite kind of architecture. I just find something so beautiful and horrible and inspiring about it.
@deputychairman !!!
I know what my kids are building next summer “no darling you can’t put shells and pretty stones on it, it’s BRUTALIST, ok?”
my dude is OBSESSED with brutalism and sent me the link to this guy’s Flickr gallery. I am pleased to see this being so popular.There are a lot of Brutalist public buildings in this state…
deputychairman:
lucyaudley:
erisis:
mostlysignssomeportents:
Calvin Seibert makes modernist sandscastles on Coney Island. At Little Atoms, Caroline Christie interviewed him about his remarkable creations.
I like making things and tend to work with whatever is at hand. Building sandcastles at a beach to me is a very natural thing to be doing. As a child, I saw photographs of the French ski resort of Flaine. I was very taken by the brutalist buildings, designed by Marcel Breuer. Since then I have always gone out of my way to see brutalist architecture and when I build sandcastles I have them in mind.
Technique:
A five-gallon paint bucket is essential. Paint buckets are particularly rigid and have a nice sharp edge for digging with. Then it is used for carrying water. Lots and lots of water. The tools are all made of plastic. I have a couple that are nothing more than a small rectangle of 1/8-inch plastic with a beveled edge and then a couple of trowels of different sizes.
http://ift.tt/2f2Lfc4
A couple years ago I had to come to rather startling terms with the fact that Brutalism is my favourite kind of architecture. I just find something so beautiful and horrible and inspiring about it.
@deputychairman !!!
I know what my kids are building next summer “no darling you can’t put shells and pretty stones on it, it’s BRUTALIST, ok?”
my dude is OBSESSED with brutalism and sent me the link to this guy’s Flickr gallery. I am pleased to see this being so popular.There are a lot of Brutalist public buildings in this state…
