First the Ice Desk, Now the Sand Desk

Raliegh, NC station WRAL has an answer to their winter ice desk that it built last winter: The Sand Desk!

 

While the ice desk was not their idea (they showed one from a D.C. area station on air, and their General Manager loved the idea), the sand desk seems to be the only one of its kind.

 

"As many of you head to the coast for the Fourth of July weekend, we at WRAL are bringing the beach to us. Why stay inside on these great summer days when we can be outside and still bring you the news and weather? That’s where the WRAL Sand Desk comes in. It’s a news desk made completely out of sand!" a story on WRAL.com states.

 

WRAL lead designer Bill Burch and local sand sculpture artist Ed Moore collaborated on the design.

 

The desk features two, three-foot pelicans, a “Peli-prompter,” wooden texture, waves, dolphins and a hidden shark. The desk was constructed using six tons of special sand and water. The packing part of the build, moving the sand into pre-built boxes and packing it down with water, took three men five hours.

 

Once the sand was packed, the boxes were removed and the carving of the sculpture took two men 18 hours over two days. The final product is totally made of sand, took 50 man-hours to make and measures about eight feet wide, three feet deep and 42 inches high. It’s expected to last up to a month.

 

The station also took to both Facebook and Twitter, opening accounts on both for the Sand Desk.

 

You can Follow the Sand Desk on Twitter & Like the Sand Desk on Facebook.

 

You can view the video on WRAL.com here.