This is a timelapse video of talented and seemingly appropriately named sculptor Leonardo Ugolini sculpting a proportional replica of the Millennium Falcon out of sand (plus BONUS Barad-dûr/Eye Of Sauron and Hogwarts Castle). Very nice. You know I made a sand castle at the beach once, but then some kid
This is an impressively shot and almost hard to believe video of gymnast Oleg Chernyshenko infinitely backflipping his way down a steep sand bank at Cape Kiwanda Beach in Oregon. There’s also an Instagram embed that shows the cameraman (Oleg’s brother) running down the hill beside him at full speed
Presumably in an attempt to raise skin cancer awareness and encourage everyone to remember to wear sunscreen, this is a video from a crane operator who constantly tries to shade a beachgoer from the sun using the shadow of his crane. He even follows him into the water when the
This is a video from a hotel balcony overlooking the ocean in Panama City Beach, Florida where a hammerhead beelines it for a man standing in the water, who a fish briefly used as cover to avoid the shark. It certainly looks scary, but it’s pretty clear the shark was
This is a film believed to have been shot by early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès around the turn of the 20th century of the beaches of Normandy, France that’s been AI enhanced for your viewing pleasure. Some more details while I further zoom and enhance the footage myself looking for
This is short clip of kitesurfer Reno Romeu launching over a peninsula on the coast of Arubinha, Brazil. One second he’s on one side, and a very brief time later, he’s on the other. Obviously, I plan on doing the same thing, except ALL THE WAY OVER THE WIDTH OF
Theis is a video of Sand Drawing Robot 2.0, a robot built by Ivan Miranda that crawls along the beach leaving pre-programmed text in its wake. It “uses 50 mini servos to doodle, two mini tanks to drive, and Arduino Mega controllers for its digital brains.” That’s cool. Obviously, if