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Commodores Club of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce hosts its 52nd Annual Sandcastle Contest: Supporting the Community

Sandcastle Sculptors
Sandcastle Sculptors

On October 6, 2013 the 52nd Annual Sandcastle Contest was held in Corona del Mar.  This event is put together every year by the Chamber of Commerce.  From young to old to professional sand sculptors like us, there was high participation from the community!

Spooky sand sculptures lined the shore for this years theme “Haunted Castles”.  Everything from witches to graveyards decorated the beach, even a few pumpkins and some ironic White House structures noting “now this is scary”.

Unfortunately, we were unable to attend this year due to prior commitments, but the event seemed to go off without a hitch and the designs were creative and well done.  We wanted to show recognition to the contest and the participants within the community since we couldn’t be there in person.  Hopefully we can make it out next year!  If you want more information on the contest winners and photos of the entrants, click here for their Facebook page.

With summer coming to an end, you may want to pack a bag and head up to Northern California where they are preparing for the 30th Annual Leap Sandcastle Contest at Ocean Beach.   This year’s theme “Masterpieces of Sand” is bound to bring out the creativity in the sculptures.  The event was originally scheduled in October but was rescheduled to November 9, 2013.  For more information or to enter the contest click here.

Archisand is excited for all of the upcoming events planned, and will be posting pictures of the upcoming, exciting projects we are working on.

So if you are looking to have your own sandcastle design made for a special event, or market your company keep Archisand in mind for all of your sand needs!

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Dana Point Festival of Whales, Sand Castle

Archisand is making our first appearance at the Dana Point Festival of Whales!

The Dana Point Festival of Whales draws over 100,000 visitors in the first two weeks of March every year. The whales are already here and in numbers larger than in recent memory. This year Archisand  led a large group of community volunteers to construct an amazing Festival of Whales sand sculpture at Baby Beach, Dana Point Harbor, California.
The Sculpture was amazing. Check out the time lapse video. The color LED lighting was so cool! Click HERE or use this link to view the video!
http://youtu.be/Fp4NIu_FkyY

To see photos from the event click HERE or on the photo below.

  Visit the Festival of Whales website for more details.
We are also proud to benefit The Bridge Teen Recovery program through our sponsorship. The Bridge Teen Recovery helps Teens, one family at a time. The bridge will had a booth set up at Baby Beach to share information about how they are helping teens in south Orange County. They will had a booth at the “Whale of A Block Party”on Saturday March 3rd.

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Biggest Loser Start & Finish Line in Sand

The Biggest Loser has Archisand create a cool sand sculpture of the start and finish line for a tough challenge.
The program aired this week on NBC. Click HERE or the photo below to see images of the making of the sand sculpture.

To see a cool video including some time lapse footage click HERE or on the link below.

Archisand also crated 50 Mazda 5 cars in sand for an earlier Biggest Loser challenge.
The Challenge went all the way as the contestants had to find keys concealed with in the car sand castles. An Amazing result…
see the blog post and video for that episode which aired in 2011.
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Archisand at the Dana Point Festival of Whales Sandsculpture

Archisand is making our first appearance at the Dana Point Festival of Whales!

The Dana Point Festival of Whales draws over 100,000 visitors in the first two weeks of March every year. The whales are already here and in numbers larger than in recent memory. This year Archisand will lead a large group of community volunteers to construct an amazing Festival of Whales sand sculpture at Baby Beach, Dana Point Harbor.
  Archisand will be working hard on the sand sculpture Saturday, March 3rd and Sunday, March 4th, all day, both days. Archisand will also be conducting free workshops on how to build sand sculptures. The Annual Festival of the Whale sand castle competition will be held Sunday, March 4th and is open to the public. Visit the Festival of Whales website for more details. We will illuminate the Whale Sand Sculpture at night with colorful LED lighting! It will be a must see event! 
Please come see us at Baby Beach – Dana Point Harbor!
Come by and volunteer it is a great day in the sand!
We are also proud to benefit The Bridge Teen Recovery program through our sponsorship. The Bridge Teen Recovery helps Teens, one family at a time. The bridge will have a booth set up at Baby Beach to share information about how they are helping teens in south Orange County. They will also have a booth at the “Whale of A Block Party”on Saturday March 3rd, from 10 am to 5 pm.

The sculpture theme will be centered around the Whale and other sea life. 

Below is the preliminary concept sketch for the Sand Sculpture:

We can’t wait to see you at the Dana Point Festival of Whales! Be sure to keep up with us on Facebook and Twitter for all the event details, photos, and videos, and check out the Dana Point Facebook page for more fun and information.

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Archisand to Travel to Christ Church NZ – Sandcastle Competition

Archisand is in major prep mode in advance of the Inaugral New Zealand Sandcastle competiton in Christchurch NZ.
January 21, 2012
Here is the information you need to know for the Christchurch Event:

Archisand will travel to Christchurch NZ to compete in their first Annual competition. This is an open to the public event. Come visit the way cool sand sculptures that will adorn the beach at New Brighton Beach. Archisand was awarded this trip as a result of finishing in the top two places at the US Open Sandcastle Competition in 2010.

Archisand will build the event Logo in sand on Friday January 20th2012.
Saturday January 21st is the Professional contest day. Contestants have a 6 meter sq plot to build their sculptures in. They have 6 hours to finish, and have  up to 6 team members.
Sunday January 22nd is the Open amature competition. Archisand team mates Greg LeBon and Ko Tanaka will be assisting by judging this event.
Christchurch NZ New Brighton Beach has been recovering from major earthquakes  since March 2011. The event was postponed from March 2011 to January 2012 as a result of the major earthquake.To this day the region is getting major aftershocks.

We are now working on our design. A hint on some of the ideas…
“Clowning Around”
We are now developing concept sketches that use this theme. We should have something that we can publish in about a week. So stay tuned!

Click here to add the NZ Sand Castle event as a Friend on Facebook!

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Alex & Olga Amazing Engagement Sandcastle

Alex proposed to Olga and got his YES!
Archisand helped by creating a way cool sand castle complete with hearts and rose peddles. Eva is the Princess, Olga the Queen. See the photos and video to watch the moment of joy.
To see images from the day click HERE or on the photo below:
Click HERE or use this link to see a way cool video of the days events:
Visit the Datevitation website and Blog to see more on this cool event!
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