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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://maldivescomplete.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Maldives Complete Blog : ambience, art</title><link>http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/tags/ambience/art/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: ambience, art</description><dc:language /><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 (Build: 30912.2823)</generator><item><title>Best of the Maldives: Sandcastles - Kuredu</title><link>http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/2012/03/27/best-of-the-maldives-sandcastles-kuredu.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:30:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e914d764-9751-423e-9063-3cf0ed63ff9a:34385</guid><dc:creator>Maldives Complete</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=34385</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/2012/03/27/best-of-the-maldives-sandcastles-kuredu.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maldivescomplete.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/maldivescomplete/Kuredu_2D00_sandcastle_2D00_1_5F00_4A842D07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image:none;border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;padding-top:0px;" title="Kuredu sandcastle 1" border="0" alt="Kuredu sandcastle 1" src="http://maldivescomplete.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/maldivescomplete/Kuredu_2D00_sandcastle_2D00_1_5F00_thumb_5F00_50616151.jpg" width="399" height="302" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;If you need a visit from &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/2012/03/25/best-of-the-maldives-spa-hours-niyama.aspx"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Mr. Sandman&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;, then &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://maldivescomplete.com/maldivesv/Profiles/Profile%20rm4b.aspx?resort=51"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Kuredu&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt; has its very own. But he has nothing to do with sleeping. Unless it is a sculpture of a sleeping lady with a horse (?) like the photo above. A whole collection of sand scuptures were created on Kuredu by on of their chefs at the Far East restaurant named Dej. His other works (which you can see on Kuredu’s&lt;font color="#0000a0"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/2012/03/16/best-of-maldives-online-facebook-input-kuredu.aspx"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0"&gt;Facebook gallery&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0"&gt;) include&lt;/font&gt;…&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=164142237039384&amp;amp;set=o.6341451442&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Old Sand Man&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=163378620449079&amp;amp;set=o.6341451442&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Lady&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=163365130450428&amp;amp;set=o.6341451442&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Camel&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=166682540118687&amp;amp;set=o.6341451442&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Dragon&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=166682180118723&amp;amp;set=o.6341451442&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Crab lady&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;The executions are not just masterful, but the subjects are creative concoctions in their own right. The pieces reminded me of my younger days growing up by the beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts which held celebrated &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bostoncentral.com/events/seasonalfun/p1022.php"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;annual sand castle making contest&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;. Below is a snap from the Lori and I assistned our artist friends George Karalias and Peter Manos put together a team to build the climactic scene from the ‘&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51qNBFBVtUE"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;Grinch That Stole Christmas’&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#0000a0" face="Segoe UI"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maldivescomplete.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/maldivescomplete/Crane_2D00_sandcastle_2D00_3_5F00_71E32191.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image:none;border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;padding-top:0px;" title="Crane sandcastle 3" border="0" alt="Crane sandcastle 3" src="http://maldivescomplete.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/maldivescomplete/Crane_2D00_sandcastle_2D00_3_5F00_thumb_5F00_32A788A5.jpg" width="404" height="267" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://maldivescomplete.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34385" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/tags/best+of/default.aspx">best of</category><category domain="http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/tags/Kuredu/default.aspx">Kuredu</category><category domain="http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/tags/ambience/default.aspx">ambience</category><category domain="http://maldivescomplete.com/blogs/maldivescomplete/archive/tags/art/default.aspx">art</category></item></channel></rss>