"A mass of people congregated on the beach with rakes in hand, creating some of the best and most organized sand art I've ever seen. It looked like TikTok-famous 2024 aliens had ditched the cornfields in 2025 to gentrify Ocean Beach - upgrading the coarse, unkempt sand with sprawling geometric patterns. Spirals, peace signs, and sunrays stretched across the shore, anchored by a simple message: "Be Kind." Beachgoers wove through the designs, careful but inevitably disruptive, because this was art meant to be temporary."
"As I walked down to the beach I was greeted by a 10-year-old with the presence of an established 40-somethings man - a level of maturity that I have yet to see in the tech bro culture that runs this city. "Can I help you, are you here for the event?" asked KaviAmador. I told the young usher that I was looking for the person in charge and he pointed to his father, Andrés Amador."
A large group of volunteers gathered at Ocean Beach to create expansive, organized sand art using rakes, producing spirals, peace signs, and sunrays across the shore. The works were anchored by a prominent "Be Kind" message and designed to be temporary, inviting careful public interaction while remaining inevitably disruptive. A 10-year-old volunteer, Kavi Amador, greeted visitors and pointed to his father, Andrés Amador, as the lead organizer. Andrés Amador embodies a San Franciscan hippie archetype who studied Environmental Science, served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador, and once worked in a bank IT department "hating every second of it."
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