Fire Ant Colony Vs. Molten Aluminium

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

So cool.

Ganja · **Joined:** Sep 2009 **Posts:** 1494 **Location:**

First the Florida post, now this. Did you recently join reddit?

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Actually, no.

Florida post came over my FB, my brother sent it to me.

This I saw while looking through my news feed.

**** reddit.

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

Mayumi · **Posted:** Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:07 am

Like that Anthill art Tas,

poehalcho · **Posted:** Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:49 am

ltsune · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 5751 **Location:**

What is really amazing is that the guy is selling those "sculptures" for more than $2.000 on Ebay!

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Cool.. It kind of looks like a Christmas tree. lulz

.curve · **Posted:** Thu Dec 12, 2013 7:43 pm

I remember seeing this a while ago somewhere. Pretty neat idea.

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

just imagine being in NYC and then suddenly molten aluminium just starts flooding everything.

.curve · **Posted:** Thu Dec 12, 2013 7:59 pm

At least it would be a quick death.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

Cool piece of art but not worth the means of how to obtain it in my opinion.....

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

Expected

Tomas Jivanda wrote:

An abstract metal sculpture has become a Youtube sensation after the artist posted a video showing how it had been created - by pouring molten aluminium directly into a fire ant colony mound.

Although the resulting work - an intricately layered and intertwining piece - is quite beautiful, not everyone has been impressed.

“I disabled comments because I'm sick of your bickering,” the anonymous artist wrote on Youtube, where the video has now received over 7 million views.

“Also, I couldn't get YouTube to stop sending me an email every time someone posted “What if I poured aluminium in your house” for the 100th time.”

On the artist’s website there is a further selection of fire ant sculptures, as well as a number of examples created through carpenter ant colonies.

The pieces are sold through eBay.

Fire ants are by no means man's best friend - their stings are extremely painful, even deadly, and the insects are estimated to cost the US economy around $1 billion per year through the damage they can cause.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 03789.html

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Gaigemasta wrote:

molten aluminium directly into a fire ant colony mound.

Damn.. I haven't thought of it that way.

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

Next they'll start pouring thermite down a termite mound.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

Gaigemasta wrote:

Expected

Tomas Jivanda wrote:

An abstract metal sculpture has become a Youtube sensation after the artist posted a video showing how it had been created - by pouring molten aluminium directly into a fire ant colony mound.

Although the resulting work - an intricately layered and intertwining piece - is quite beautiful, not everyone has been impressed.

“I disabled comments because I'm sick of your bickering,” the anonymous artist wrote on Youtube, where the video has now received over 7 million views.

“Also, I couldn't get YouTube to stop sending me an email every time someone posted “What if I poured aluminium in your house” for the 100th time.”

On the artist’s website there is a further selection of fire ant sculptures, as well as a number of examples created through carpenter ant colonies.

The pieces are sold through eBay.

Fire ants are by no means man's best friend - their stings are extremely painful, even deadly, and the insects are estimated to cost the US economy around $1 billion per year through the damage they can cause.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 03789.html

What sort of ecological balance/food chain dependency these fire ants provide that this biased article isn't acknowledging?...

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

BUT THE ANTS, THINK OF THE ANTS!

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

For this day shall be reckoned in Ant history as The Great Searing. It is the first time our kind has seen so much horrific destruction brought about by such a weapon. This day shall live in infamy. Today we shall mourn for those we have lost: soldiers, workers, the queen and all her subjects -- murdered in cold blood. But tomorrow, we shall rise against our enemy and they will feel our wrath!

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Lmao.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

ROFL @inky Well, That Just might come true! xD

I Am Vegeta · **Posted:** Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:36 pm

that's nice and major loling @ petabeta

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