When I saw some of the pictures in this article, I was bowled over, shouting obscenities because of the sheer disbelief I was in. The things he does, I feel like most (even talented artists) would be a little strained to do something by hand, considering that they can see the whole canvas at once. This guy seems to have none of those luxuries. It's simply stunning. Please behold.

Simon Beck Snow Art

wow.

I wonder if this guy also does crop circles?!

You know that's really funny cause I laughed at first when I read what you wrote, but it does raise an interesting point. I would like to say that I don't believe that this guy does crop circles, however if a man is capable of achieving such mathematically artistic feats in the snow with such poor perspective in not too much time at all, then it challenges the notion that people might not be capable enough of creating similar designs in crop fields in relatively little time. When I was looking at the snow photos (and you can see more on his facebook page linked at the bottom of the article - he does one hell of a European castle in the snow) I remember exclaiming "it's impossible! It's Just impossible!" but the matter of fact is he did do it, so when we stand with our jaws agape at crop circles, it should be taken into account that there are people out there who could have a capacity for the execution of such activities.

woww

Impressive!

I as well shouted obscenities. "Holy fuckballs!!" were my words.

This makes me so happy.

plus you have to take into account crop circles have been following human culture, not leading it.

a perfect example is fractal math, which hit it big in the math world in the 80s (though it benoit mandelbrot had been working with it in the 70s, it didn't catch on till later), and started popping up in crop circles the 90s. before that it was just circles and lines, mostly.

but yea, this is just one man trudging through snow. an entire team of people would cut down the time needed to accomplish such a feat considerably.

still no less amazing to see, though.

That is incredible! I gotta learn how to do that, since my area is covered with snow for 5-6 months out of the year which leaves me with no outside activities!

well, I guess he's not bad, but check out this out for some real skills




I was a talented child

Sweeeet, but 3rdI has something special there.

So first we have the guy doing the impossible in the snow, and now we have someone else take an interesting approach in the temporary medium of sand.

These both impress me, the snow guy and the sand guy--I'm a fan of land art and am familiar with both of them.

Of one was good at geometry, good with a compass...how much of leap would it be to create some of this in large form? The flower of life is a fairly easy example. If you can draw it with nothing but a compass, then you go outside with a stake and a string, draw it big. IDK, it sounds like I'm down playing how awesome this is, but I'm actually rather impressed. The snow guys' work is all geometrical, but more complex than then the flower of life--and the sand guys' stuff, a lot of it is more free-form than that. Definitely some serious skill and patience and vision are involved here.

I'm reminded of both crop circles and the nasca lines.

i like the mandlebrot fractal under the ski lift

Yes, I noticed that too.