sophisticated sand art: jim denevan

so basically this guy makes drawings in the sand with sticks, which would sound simple or even dull if they didn't look like this:

while these photos don't even begin to do denevan's work justice, they do illustrate the grandeur of the art seeing as there is, in fact, a tiny person situated in the middle of the designs. supposedly he works up to 7 hours and walks as far as 30 miles to make his work sans any sort of measuring tool. after his pieces are done and photographed, they end up disappearing shortly after as the water washes up on shore. sad? yes. but awesome? totally.

http://www.jimdenevan.com/