also check: http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Dan-Amazing-rock-Balancing

Kind of like Andy Goldsworthy.

It's amazing what some people can do with *nature

Adding video to channels (Nature) - requested by BreaksTheEarth.

Of course it's art, and since when are danger and art mutually exclusive?! PS: Only a safety hazard if you set up camp under one...and then you probably deserve to have your head crushed by a rock.

I've done this around Vancouver — it's fun.  These are some really good ones.

Either fake CGI, or there is a rod down the middle, obviously. Neither way would be difficult, and both defeat the wind blowing them over.

"Cairn" is the term for these rock piles. You see them often when hiking. Sometimes they are trail markers; often they are just something someone did while taking a breather. They rarely display such an extreme balancing act as this.

>> ^ForgedReality:
Either fake CGI, or there is a rod down the middle, obviously. Neither way would be difficult, and both defeat the wind blowing them over.


Wow, way to be incredibly skeptical and also completely wrong!

yay hometown!

ah...aH...AH...ACHOOOOO! Whoops, sorry.

>> ^Jaace:
>> ^ForgedReality:
Either fake CGI, or there is a rod down the middle, obviously. Neither way would be difficult, and both defeat the wind blowing them over.

Wow, way to be incredibly skeptical and also completely wrong!



so u think this is real? see the gulls? how many minutes do u think it would take before one landed on this 'balancing act' and toppled it over. there is not a chance this is real - there is a strong chance u are gullible.

^ It IS REAL. Check the video kulpims referred to in the FIRST comment of the thread. There you can see him stacking the rocks, no rods, glue or tricks.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Dan-Amazing-rock-Balancing

It's unbelievable, but still real

>> ^Jaace:
>> ^ForgedReality:
Either fake CGI, or there is a rod down the middle, obviously. Neither way would be difficult, and both defeat the wind blowing them over.

Wow, way to be incredibly skeptical and also completely wrong!


Ok I saw the link and I believe...

Two words:

Gorilla. Glue.

It's fake, he does it like derren brown did the national lottery prediction.

See he's using a 16-way split screen with 16 guys holding the rocks but each image overlaps to cover where the hands are. The only difficult bit was how he managed to get the randomised waves in each of the 16 segments to sync up to make a natural looking sea/lake.

Nice try bill dan, but you gotta get up pretty early in the morning to slip a 16-way split screen and wave synchronisation past me. Amateur.

so the trick i heard about doing this is to pack the top of each rock with a bit of sand, then after the next rock is placed, blow away the sand. only the loose sand will blow away and the supporting sand will be hidden enough that it cant be seen. To me, that's not fake, it's just a neat technique combined with also amazing balancing skills.

they may or may not be doing the sand trick in this video, but either way it's not fake and it's great!

you skeptics are completely wrong. my uncle was here a month ago and he spent 2 hours building a five foot tall one just as elaborate as in the video. It takes patience, and time and the one thing my uncle told me about them when you finish " they are meant to be destroyed " so yes people actually take the time to build these, take a picture and then walk away.

>> ^Jaace:
>> ^ForgedReality:
Either fake CGI, or there is a rod down the middle, obviously. Neither way would be difficult, and both defeat the wind blowing them over.

Wow, way to be incredibly skeptical and also completely wrong!


That was before I saw the youtube videos of him actually setting them up. Fuck the original sifter for not sifting that instead, since it was 1,000 times more interesting and insightful. >:[

If I was into creationism I would probably believe this

My name is Bill Dan - check out more of My work here [ 30+ videos ] - http://youtube.com/bebalance - and more images - short video clips to see here [ http://flickr.com/photos/rocker ]

^ Sorry, kinda jumped the gun on calling this spam.

>> ^billbalance:
My name is Bill Dan - check out more of My work here [ 30+ videos ] - http://youtube.com/bebalance - and more images - short video clips to see here [ http://flickr.com/photos/rocker ]

Great work! Before I saw you making them I never imagined structures like that were possible.