Comments on: I am a stranger in your land, a wandering man, call me Sand.

I am a stranger in your land, a wandering man, call me Sand.

homunculus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:06:25 -0800

This is Sand "is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand that can be used as building material for cosmic landscapes, Clemens-style sand paintings, mandalas and so on." [Via The Presurfer]

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:11:48 -0800

Just wait until the lolcats discover it and it becomes unusable.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:18:51 -0800

It was cool until firefox crashed.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:30 -0800

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:36 -0800

Nice, clean and minimal, but you can't make things blow up in this version.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:42 -0800

Sorting the gallery by most viewed turns up more variety. I like this one best.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:23:53 -0800

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:24:11 -0800

I mean, See Also

By: greenie2600

greenie2600 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:24:58 -0800

Neat idea, and well executed. I had no problems in Firefox 2. I always like things like this, but the interest rarely lasts more than two minutes or so. I remember being in awe of the old Praystation stuff, though.

By: Aquaman

Aquaman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:25:13 -0800

Oooooooooollllllllllllddddddddd. The one with all the pyro materials is the best.

By: sour cream

sour cream — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:32:34 -0800

This is crashingmybrowser.

By: davemee

davemee — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:33:30 -0800

Cute, but I hope the artists (who seem to be using this as part of a final-year show) acknowledge the works they're plagiarising. The site makes no reference to the long list of sand simulation toys (such as the couple that DU mentions above) that came before. So maybe, a B for implementation, a C for bullshit, and a D- for integrity?

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:46:04 -0800

And see also Metafilter: We're really into sand

By: greenie2600

greenie2600 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:09:26 -0800

Oh man, I just spent an hour playing with this. I'd love to see that fleshed out into a full game with sound effects and pretty graphics and so forth.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:50:24 -0800

Should I be upset that there were zero sets of footprints?

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:08:09 -0800

Except for the head-tilt and degree of mouth being open, most of the resemble is make-believe. Cookie Monster and James Earl Jones? Please...and Cookie is a much better actor to boot. but Janice and Versace was spot on, 8 on the Bizarro scale.

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:08:41 -0800

damn, wong thread

By: fiercecupcake

fiercecupcake — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:15:20 -0800

Like such as sand.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:15:51 -0800

That was pretty neat. But it needs more bristle worms.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:23:52 -0800

Cute, but I hope the artists (who seem to be using this as part of a final-year show) acknowledge the works they're plagiarising. Plagiarizing? You are aware that these are all based on a physical things, right? I mean it is actually possible for people to come up with similar ideas on their own.

By: PercussivePaul

PercussivePaul — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:59:21 -0800

"Just like the actual sand gets its colour from its origins, the sand used on thisissand.com covers the RGB palette natural to digital environments. Also the sounds of the falling sand on thisissand.com resemble a real life phenomenon: singing sand is discovered in about 35 desert locations around the world where the wind triggers a low-pitch sound in the natural sand. Instead of nature's frequencies the digital sand generates white noise, which is a random signal with a flat power density. It is considered analogous to white light which contains all frequencies - like the RGB sand on thisissand.com. This project is trying WAY too hard.

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:06:51 -0800

In case any one was curious, Andrew Clemens, a native Iowan, created some fine sand bottles They really are quite extraordinary.

By: greenie2600

greenie2600 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:05:55 -0800

Trying way too hard is what art school is all about.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:24:56 -0800

Cute, but I hope the artists (who seem to be using this as part of a final-year show) acknowledge the works they're plagiarising. I had a falling-sand program on my Amstrad CPC back in about...1989, 1990? The concept is stupidly simple. Obvious even. No need for acknowledgment.