Team Sandtastic

One of the most interesting thing we seen while visiting the Tampa RV Super Show was the fantastic Sand sculpture that Team Sandtastic did for the show... It was the entire United States with icons on it from many of the 50 states... The United States is built on a tilt and in the back you will see how they portrayed it being sirred up like a mine might be. It was headed up by the very talented Mark Mason and his team... and it took them 7 days to complete the entire project.

Mark Mason started sculpting sand 24 years ago, competing in the Sand-Blast, a sand sculpture contest held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he grew up. The past 16 years professional sand & snow sculpture has been his primary occupation, taking his team to many Caribbean islands, Hawaii, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, the MidEast and all throughout the United States creating projects that cause extensive media coverage & foot traffic for our clients. Shopping centers, conventions, fairs, festivals, and theme parks have been our staple clients... but throughout the years there have also been some singularly unique sculptures such as a castle and sand sculpted platform used as the site for a couple's wedding and one where 200 guests had dinner "inside" it's walls.
He won the title "World Champion" by coming in first place in the World Championship Sand Sculpture Competition held in British Columbia, Canada.
Titles also held by Mark and his team are: First Places at The American Sand Sculpting Festival, The Myrtle Beach Open, The Southeast US Championships, and others.
In July of 1998, for Georgia Stone Mountain Park, Team Sandtastic created the tallest sand castle ever hand built in under 100 man hours and holds that current Guiness World Record. It stands at 28 feet 7 and 1/4 inch. Here are a few photos of some of the display he did for the RV Show.

This is a close up of Florida

Here is the back of the sculpture and Steve who was working on it

If you would like to see other sculptures done by Tean Sandtastic visit their web site @
http://www.teamsandtastic.com/

Until Later