"The vantage point from the Cliff House is typically pretty banal, showing endless volleyball nets and some fog. But the vibe last Saturday was crop circle. 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."
"Stepping carefully to avoid ruining anyone's life's work, I made my way over to Amador. " Sorry... " I utilized all my body language capacity to express how bad I felt for stepping on a meticulously-crafted sand drawing of sun rays as I approached him. "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that," he shrugged off my concern for the permanence of the artwork."
From the Cliff House view, the usually banal Ocean Beach transformed into a crop-circle-like gathering where people used rakes to produce expansive, organized sand art. Spirals, peace signs, and sunrays formed sprawling geometric patterns across coarse, unkempt sand, centered around a simple message: Be Kind. Beachgoers navigated the designs while acknowledging their temporary nature. A 10-year-old volunteer, KaviAmador, greeted and guided visitors to his father, Andrés Amador. Amador blends San Franciscan hippie sensibilities with a tech background: he studied Environmental Science, served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador, and later worked in a national bank IT department he recalled hating.
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