Barack Obama’s giant sand sculpture took shape on the Barcelona beach

A Cuban born American artist named Jorge Rodriquez-Gerada, along with the volunteers, has made a really big head portrait of Barack Obama from sand and gravel at Barcelona-Spain beachfront.

The sculpture is about 445 feet long by 264 feet wide (139.28 by 82.67 meters) covering 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of the beachfront. The artist hopefully wants the artwork to be photographed by Google Earth. This giant sculpture has been created using 500 tons of sand, gravel and white, brown and black pebbles costing more than $13,000.













The artist informed The Daily Telegraph “I'm not campaigning for him (Barack Obama); I'm using his icon to represent the strength of expectation from people across the world who believe that a change in global politics is needed.”

As reported by the Associated Press, “This Obama portrait isn't the only outsized sand creation this election season. In India, an artist created a sand sculpture of both Obama and rival John McCain, with a U.S. flag and a likeness of the Capitol.”

Some tricks with the name Obama :

(1) The name ‘Obama’ is a serious business
Go to the eBay USA website. In the search bar, type ‘obama’ as shown in the image. Check out some auto generated suggestions. You can realize that the above statement is deserved to be right.












(2) 'Obama' is a grammatical error in Microsoft Word 2003
Although this trick is just a simple fun, it can create some humor. I am using Microsoft Word 2003 (Part of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003) and this trick works fine in it. I am not sure about the other versions of Microsoft Office.

Open a blank word document and type the word ‘Obama’ and leave a space. You’ll immediately notice a red line below the word stating a grammatical error. Now right click the word and see the first suggestion from the word dictionary. It’s ‘Osama’.