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Sand art is the practice of modelling sand into an artistic form, such as a sand brushing, sand sculpture, sandpainting, or sand bottles. A sand castle is a type of sand sculpture resembling a miniature building, often a castle. The two basic building ingredients, sand and water, are available in abundance on a sandy beach, so most sand play takes place there, or in a sandpit. Tidal beaches generally have sand that limits height and structure because of the shape of the sand grains...

This amazing installation by Bruce Munro is made of 600.000 CDs. Bruce Munro invites you to send them to his studio, to be used for his next project. He needs 1 million CDs to make his new installation, 'CD Sea'. A glittering 'inland sea' illuminated by natural light reflected by the CDs, it will be the first of a number of self-funded 'eco' installations using recycled materials, at Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire...

Dan LuVisi is a digital concept artist working in the film, video game and comic book industry. At the young age of 3, inspiration struck him in form of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and he hasn't stopped drawing since. His talent received recognition while he was still in high school and he was hired by German Acony Games during these years, prompting him to decide against college and instead, immediately follow his obvious calling...

Thomas Allen's color photographs, also at Toale, are witty and laugh-outloud funny. In contrast to Martin's oeuvre, they have the depth of a penny. Even so, they're so clever and beautifully printed, they're hard not to love. Allen takes dime-store novels, slices out pieces of their illustrated covers, and bends those slivers into three-dimensional action. For instance, "Stacked" has a woman wearing only a blanket and a come-hither look reclining atop a stack of paperbacks...

These cool paper sculptures are by Tucson, Arizona based artist Nick Georgiou. Georgiou’s work is inspired by “the death of the printed word/world, economic collapse, political and environmental uncertainty. Georgiou states: “Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 21st century. Whatever we used to read off paper, we’re now reading off digital screens. Our way of interacting with text is changing...