"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."
From the Cliff House, the usual view of volleyball nets and fog gave way to a large, crop-circle-like gathering on Ocean Beach where volunteers used rakes to create sprawling, geometric sand art. Spirals, peace signs, and sunrays covered the shore, centered around a simple message: "Be Kind." Beachgoers moved through the designs, aware that the works were temporary. A perceptive 10-year-old volunteer, Kavi Amador, directed visitors to his father, sand artist Andrés Amador. Amador, a former environmental science student and Peace Corps volunteer who once worked in IT "hating every second of it," downplayed the impermanence of the pieces.
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