Pretty sure the bubbling was the molten aluminum reacting with the moisture in the ant hill.. What moisture is in an ant hill you ask? Living tissue. That bubbling you saw was millions of ants insides exploding and reacting with the molten aluminum.
Saimeren *rolls eyes* Visit this man's website, read his entire RUclips profile, and actually learn the facts of physics. The bubbling was due to the liquid infiltrating the many caverns dug underground into different shapes, sizes, and depths filling those pockets. Ants' presence - or lack thereof - would have nothing to do with that part. Plus, there were not millions of ants in that mound. He visits and uses abandoned ant mounds after a lot of monitoring to confirm vacancy.
Really? Because in his first video you can see the ants frantically trying to dig their way out of a smoldering hill and running away. Clearly not abandoned. In his Mushroom casting video he mentions that the Aluminum bubbles because he didn't extract all the moisture from the cast before pouring in the Aluminum.. It's not a far stretch to imagine that it's the ants causing excess moisture.
Saimeren You expect every single ant in the world to not be in the area? There would've been a ton more activity of scurrying ants had that mound been occupied by the colony. You saw a few dozen, so the whole colony must be in there right? It's way more plausible the moisture is natural moisture (rain water, dew, etc) that comes from the ground and the soil, especially when going that deep. You can tell when he digs it out how moist the dirt/soil is. It's not dry sand.
***** This is the first explanation I've seen about the bubbling and you nailed it. I didn't realize at the time I was pouring that it was the trapped air pushing out because it hadn't done that before and it's similar to what happens when the ground is too moist. Only after I saw the cleaned cast did I realize that the tunnels of this cast were much larger in diameter than those of the other casts I've done, and that allowed the aluminum to flow quicker and deeper before hardening. Like you said, the soil is so dense that there's nowhere else for the air to go. So, I started thinking that I've probably done casts where the air doesn't bubble out through the aluminum but gives just enough resistance for it to harden too quickly (or it's already hardened "upstream") and a looser soil would let more air push through. I used that idea to pick the next cast I did in an area where I know the soil is sandy and less dense. The result is the largest, deepest fire ant colony I've done so far and will post that video soon.
I'll see what I can do. Quick calculation: This cast is 10.4 lbs.of aluminum. Gold is about 7 times the density of aluminum. So this cast would weigh about 73 lbs. if it was gold. I see gold on apmex for $1,235 per ounce, 16 oz in one pound....that comes to....$1.4 million. Plus parts and labor, let's round that up to $2 million. Any celebrities, brutal dictators, or super villains that are interested...pm me on FB for inquiries. Oh, and there's a chance I'll trip on a root and spill gold everywhere....probably won't happen this time though. :)
HotBaconStrips Was thinking about that too. But I don't think liquid glass (even if possible) will work as liquid metal. Liquid metals have high density hence they displace sand/mud as they flow into the colony. However liquid glass isn't that dense and if it is poured into a colony it will go down mixing with sand and mud making the cast dirty and irregular..
+Jake B Gold plating would probably look good. I gave one to a friend that used silver spray paint on it that looked ok, I'm sure they have gold paint like that too. Not real gold or silver of course.
Thanks! I'm always working on this stuff and have so many unfinished ideas all going at once. I've also been spending a lot of time on a few casts for special purposes (one in particular for a huge event in March). Also trying to perfect my methods on everything, especially getting better at photography (because my early pics are pretty bad). The cast rotation animation at the end of this video is a great example of something I spent a lot of time on just to make things interesting. Anybody besides me think that's completely awesome, by the way?
tjhooker73(and others): Thanks! It took a lot of effort to make that work. Mainly because my photography skills were lacking and I really wanted to get a solid white background which isn't as easy as you would think. I have it down now, so I should be able to do the spin for all of them now.
NO ANTS WERE HURT IN THE FILMING OF THIS VIDEO. Read the whole description, especially toward the bottom. Anthill Art you are one brave person not putting up in all caps on top :D Do you _like_ being potentially skewered by outraged commentators? Lol.
I did it at night out of convenience at first, night was just when I had time to do it (and still is). I really like how it turns out at night though, so always do it that way now. The background noise is cool for one, but there are many other advantages.
@The Gaming Squadron first off, where would the necessary amount of aluminum needed for the job come from, and where would the ants gain the cognitive ability to not only pour the stuff in or even know how to use the stuff in such manner, not to mention the whole size issue since without a shrink ray none of this would even be possible, do maybe next time you try to use an emotionally charged argument, at least have it make sense
Yeah that does happen a lot. Especially with fire ant colonies. There are probably more failures than successes. Not only tunnels collapsing, but soil moisture causing the aluminum to harden too soon.
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Perhaps, I wouldn't be surprised. As humans we like to think that "first contact" with extraterrestrials would be a moment of mutual discovery. It may very well be the case that we are ant-like to extraterrestrials. They may know everything about us and just don't care to communicate with us even if they could. Think about it, ants have a complex social order, construct complex structures, wage war and even take slaves. To us, however, we have them "figured out" and they are a nuisance. They in turn are completely unaware of us. If you were taking a road trip why would you waste time to stop by the side of the highway and try to talk to ants?
Thanks. I generally know the extent based on previous casts, and start digging a little further out than expected. On the first few casts I made, I had no idea if there would be a tunnel shooting off to the side deeper in the ground but it really doesn't happen and anything like that is usually near the surface, so I poke around with a trowel to find the edge. I did hit aluminum with the shovel way out and deep on one cast, and it turned out to be mole tunnels that took most of the aluminum. See cast #064 on the website www.anthillart.com/castings/064/ ......really awesome and wish I had videoed that cast. (no moles harmed and an abandoned fire ant colony).
I'm always amazed by how many hollow 'mini caves' there are right under the surface, but it never collapses when you're standing there getting ready to pour.
You have two different Laws at play here. You have Boyle's Law which states that the volume of a given amount of gas held at constant temperature varies inversely with the applied pressure when the temperature and mass are constant. Also, Gay Lussac's Law (Amontons's Law) states that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas, when the volume is kept constant. Regarding the case in the above video, the temperature is not constant for Boyle's Law, and for Gay Lussac's law, the volume is not constant. Those factors are important to each. For example, in Gay Lussac's Law, it is possible to increase the temperature of a gas, and have its pressure decline. How so? Well, you would need to increase the volume of the gas simultaneously while increasing the temperature, and your increase in volume must be of a sufficient size to overcome any increase of pressure that is caused by the increase of temperature. However, in this particular case, the constant in Boyle's Law (temperature), and the constant in Gay Lussac's Law (volume) are not constants, but instead both of them are deviating from their original values in the appropriate directions so that they are working together to reinforce each other's behavior rather than being in opposition. With Boyle's law, you have the mass of the liquid Aluminum pouring and running down on top of the air in the tunnels, compressing said air, lowering its volume, and hence increasing its pressure, but we know from the zeroth law of thermodynamics that the temperature of the air is increasing from heat being transferred from the liquid aluminum to the air, and the air's temperature will continue to increase until it reaches thermal equilibrium with the liquid aluminum, it is pushed out of the isolating space of the tunnels, or other variables come into play, but we're keeping things fairly simple for now, so there is no real need to touch upon that aspect. With Gay Lussac's Law. the pressure of a gas will increase directly with an increase of temperature, but our volume is not remaining constant, but it is decreasing, which only contributes to increasing the pressure of the air. Therefore, we have several laws, and their corresponding forces, at work here that is causing the air to be forced out of the ant colony's tunnels in sufficiently strong successive bursts that causes the liquid aluminum to gurgle in such a manner.
***** they have an exceptionally basic one, they can sense pressure and effectively nothing else. the humble cucumber actually has a more advanced nervous system... which is weird when you think about it.
***** Yeah, the cucumber has a decently advanced nervous system, but it's not centralized. it's pretty hard to know what a cucumber's thinking though... probably something along the lines of terrified vegetable-scream while being sliced. cucumbers can probably feel pain though.
Ever considered trying this with an underground wasps nest (or any other underground insect nest)? It would require a lot of precautions, but seems doable.
Why doo you do the castings at night? So that might come out like I'm being rude but I don't really mean to sound that way. I love your videos. I'm just really curious
When people get bored they do strange things.. "Yea, I'm extremely bored I wonder what'd happen if I poured molten aluminum down an ant hill?" This looks like a lot of fun lol
Curious if you've done casts of much larger field ant nests. There's a huge Formica podzolica nest on my lawn with at least a couple dozen entrances within about 2 ft or 60 cm diameter and I often wonder how big and complex it is underground.
Do the ants die instantly when u pour the aluminium in do they all die or do some manage to escape? How or where do they escape to? R there ant bodies in ur cast or do they just burn
Hello there has been a recent study of giant holes appearing where anthills used to be. We have someone who says he saw a giant hole where a anthill used to be.
By this time, most of the ants in the country have heard of the shiny plague of death. The ants are concealing their ant hills, but even so the plague seeks them out brings their colony to the ground. The ants have tried all they could think of. There is no escape.
they basically get vaporized because there body's aren't nearly as strong as humans or animal's because u can just kill them by laying your finger on them
Does your foundry setup heat from the very bottom or from the side? Do you use propane? Sorry to be a bother, just trying to figure out how to heat that much metal at one time without losing heat and screwing it all up. Thanks.
Very nice structure. Do u sell those by chance. Me an some friends i have would b very interested in opportunity to purchase one. U have a website or something
A quote from anthill art.com: Once the video went super-viral (6,000,000 views in a day), I received an enormous amount of requests for purchases. Literally hundreds per day for a while. I was really caught off guard by this and was not exactly sure what to do as far as selling casts in the future. Realistically, I couldn't respond to every message, so I would find the ones that looked most serious about buying and would tell them "I don't have one now but will try to get one for you soon," and take their name and info and put it on a list. At that point I wasn't sure exactly how many I would be able to turn out but though that I could fine tune my methods to do more. That list got fairly long, but manageable, and I put the info into a spreadsheet and organized it based on what people were looking for (size, price, type) and that became "the list" that I always refer to. Things slowed a bit in early 2014 but I would still add a few people to the list every day. One day someone asked me what number they were on the list. I didn't have it setup to count, so I added a counter to the list and was shocked to see that it was over 300 people. Realizing that making that many in a reasonable time wouldn't be possible, I had to stop adding people to the list at that time. It would be impossible at this point to make 300 even over several years. The good news for any one on the list who is waiting is that only every few people I offer casts to even respond and buy. So the situation is slightly better for you than it seems, but it still could take quite a while for you to get an offer. I wish that wasn't the case.
Just a thought, but I wonder how bronze would fair in this art form. I think the sculptures are awesome don't get me wrong, but they kind of look like they're made out of crunched up tin foil sometimes. :D
These are fun to watch, I have to admit the first time I saw one of these I was expecting a mini Pompei with little ants looking like they were screaming and running. Too bad
EWWW IT LOOKED BUBBLY
Dhhshshd Bdhdbdhd d LOL 😂
Huh. Quite satisfying
So what
I'm having trouble telling if this is satire or not
Cool
Little known fact: Those bubbles coming up are the collective screams of thousands of ants.
The colony was abandoned.
KeoN o
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Actually, it is trapped air pushing out of the anthill.
When you boil water, the bubbles are the scream of millions of microscopic lives dwell in it :v
You should do a video that compares casts from different ant colonies, so we can see the similarities and differences in details.
when summer comes around, first thing on the agenda is to melt soda cans and find an ant hill
You just gave me an idea(:
Sounds like fun. And loads of ant bites
Gonna need a hell of a lot of soda cans...
Picax8398 That's what I was thinking lmao.
I think he buys it
This one was my favorite. I loved how it bubbled and the final outcome to boot.
+Abstersroxx So it isn't now...
Pretty sure the bubbling was the molten aluminum reacting with the moisture in the ant hill.. What moisture is in an ant hill you ask? Living tissue. That bubbling you saw was millions of ants insides exploding and reacting with the molten aluminum.
Saimeren *rolls eyes* Visit this man's website, read his entire RUclips profile, and actually learn the facts of physics. The bubbling was due to the liquid infiltrating the many caverns dug underground into different shapes, sizes, and depths filling those pockets. Ants' presence - or lack thereof - would have nothing to do with that part. Plus, there were not millions of ants in that mound. He visits and uses abandoned ant mounds after a lot of monitoring to confirm vacancy.
Really? Because in his first video you can see the ants frantically trying to dig their way out of a smoldering hill and running away. Clearly not abandoned.
In his Mushroom casting video he mentions that the Aluminum bubbles because he didn't extract all the moisture from the cast before pouring in the Aluminum.. It's not a far stretch to imagine that it's the ants causing excess moisture.
Saimeren You expect every single ant in the world to not be in the area? There would've been a ton more activity of scurrying ants had that mound been occupied by the colony. You saw a few dozen, so the whole colony must be in there right?
It's way more plausible the moisture is natural moisture (rain water, dew, etc) that comes from the ground and the soil, especially when going that deep. You can tell when he digs it out how moist the dirt/soil is. It's not dry sand.
Always interesting. I look forward to the explanation on why it 'burped'.
Glad to see someone is reading my long descriptions :)
***** This is the first explanation I've seen about the bubbling and you nailed it. I didn't realize at the time I was pouring that it was the trapped air pushing out because it hadn't done that before and it's similar to what happens when the ground is too moist. Only after I saw the cleaned cast did I realize that the tunnels of this cast were much larger in diameter than those of the other casts I've done, and that allowed the aluminum to flow quicker and deeper before hardening. Like you said, the soil is so dense that there's nowhere else for the air to go. So, I started thinking that I've probably done casts where the air doesn't bubble out through the aluminum but gives just enough resistance for it to harden too quickly (or it's already hardened "upstream") and a looser soil would let more air push through. I used that idea to pick the next cast I did in an area where I know the soil is sandy and less dense. The result is the largest, deepest fire ant colony I've done so far and will post that video soon.
Huh, I guess I assumed that the dirt wouldn't be so packed. Good think I'm not handling molten metal!
The true explanation
Can you do one of the colonies with molten gold! please please please.
I'll see what I can do. Quick calculation: This cast is 10.4 lbs.of aluminum. Gold is about 7 times the density of aluminum. So this cast would weigh about 73 lbs. if it was gold. I see gold on apmex for $1,235 per ounce, 16 oz in one pound....that comes to....$1.4 million. Plus parts and labor, let's round that up to $2 million. Any celebrities, brutal dictators, or super villains that are interested...pm me on FB for inquiries. Oh, and there's a chance I'll trip on a root and spill gold everywhere....probably won't happen this time though. :)
AnthillArt Please do molten glass !! it will be epic :DD but very fragile :D
HotBaconStrips Was thinking about that too. But I don't think liquid glass (even if possible) will work as liquid metal. Liquid metals have high density hence they displace sand/mud as they flow into the colony. However liquid glass isn't that dense and if it is poured into a colony it will go down mixing with sand and mud making the cast dirty and irregular..
Anthill Art what about something with a goldish pigment?
+Jake B Gold plating would probably look good. I gave one to a friend that used silver spray paint on it that looked ok, I'm sure they have gold paint like that too. Not real gold or silver of course.
Me: "I'll just hold it in"
Me 2 seconds later: 0:12
😂😂
Wow, you've been gone for a while! Great to see more beautiful casts done =)
Thanks! I'm always working on this stuff and have so many unfinished ideas all going at once. I've also been spending a lot of time on a few casts for special purposes (one in particular for a huge event in March). Also trying to perfect my methods on everything, especially getting better at photography (because my early pics are pretty bad). The cast rotation animation at the end of this video is a great example of something I spent a lot of time on just to make things interesting. Anybody besides me think that's completely awesome, by the way?
AnthillArt how long does it take to dig the holes
AnthillArt I really like the 3d rotation at the end It is a nice touch :)
AnthillArt I paused a video while it wasn't moving to watch this and I didn't noticed it's rotates. It's cool feature.
tjhooker73(and others): Thanks! It took a lot of effort to make that work. Mainly because my photography skills were lacking and I really wanted to get a solid white background which isn't as easy as you would think. I have it down now, so I should be able to do the spin for all of them now.
NO ANTS WERE HURT IN THE FILMING OF THIS VIDEO.
Read the whole description, especially toward the bottom.
Anthill Art you are one brave person not putting up in all caps on top :D Do you _like_ being potentially skewered by outraged commentators? Lol.
I object. Clearly this is an outrage against our Earth Mother whose sacred soil should never be scorched in this despicable manner!!1
What is your point?...
+Matt Corby r u an abortion survivor ?
@@everetpresley3824 “yes”
Why do you do these videos at night?
I did it at night out of convenience at first, night was just when I had time to do it (and still is). I really like how it turns out at night though, so always do it that way now. The background noise is cool for one, but there are many other advantages.
+Anthill Art Yeah that background noise! :)
+Anthill Art hey do you sell the ant art?? if so how much do you sell it for, price range wise.
+Collin Hunt to have all the ants inside
Lol Adam Silver
INB4 Sensitive people flip their shit over some bugs.
-looks really cool though-
Yeah, how would you feel if your friends and family had boiling aluminum poured on them?
Ik
@The Gaming Squadron first off, where would the necessary amount of aluminum needed for the job come from, and where would the ants gain the cognitive ability to not only pour the stuff in or even know how to use the stuff in such manner, not to mention the whole size issue since without a shrink ray none of this would even be possible, do maybe next time you try to use an emotionally charged argument, at least have it make sense
@@getbackinyourtaco ok look that was a year ago I was a snowflake back then
@@getbackinyourtaco take it as casting your pet dog or cat with boiling aluminium :)
please tell me you aren't done killing ants in the name of education and science...I just found these videos
No..He's killing them for "art".
ofcource they are ants in there!
although why the fuck you feel bad by killing ants?
+Red Ryg Actually world line is right read around the end area of the description
+Red Ryg well ants dig these holes which apple plant roots with carbon dioxide. so yea...
Are you another ant hater?
Is this always a success? Like doesn't the tunnel leading to the colony sometimes collapse, preventing the entry of molten aluminum in it?
Yeah that does happen a lot. Especially with fire ant colonies. There are probably more failures than successes. Not only tunnels collapsing, but soil moisture causing the aluminum to harden too soon.
Kids in Africa could've eaten those ants!
Kids in Africa could have eaten that aluminum
Those kids in africa could've eaten those kids in africa
So this is a HowToBasics vid?
ImThePr3s hahaha these comments ...
Forget it kids in Africa have ebola
Does anybody realize that ants are non sentient? They have no feelings.
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HeatedChocolate Ants hace feelings
Bro, just because they dont have feeling does not mean that they cant feel pain
@@philipbarringer3643 Am Vietnamese. Can confirm that we have no feelings
Ants are technically sentient
I wonder if one day aliens will come here and pour aluminium on our buildings.
You know the anthill was abandoned?
Emory LastNameNoLastName Maybe the aliens would find a city that was abandoned, and they poured molten metals in those buildings o3o Who knows.
Hoxton Wright Poor Detroit.
Emory LastNameNoLastName Hahahahaha, yeah.
Perhaps, I wouldn't be surprised. As humans we like to think that "first contact" with extraterrestrials would be a moment of mutual discovery. It may very well be the case that we are ant-like to extraterrestrials. They may know everything about us and just don't care to communicate with us even if they could. Think about it, ants have a complex social order, construct complex structures, wage war and even take slaves. To us, however, we have them "figured out" and they are a nuisance. They in turn are completely unaware of us. If you were taking a road trip why would you waste time to stop by the side of the highway and try to talk to ants?
Cool as always, but I have a question:
Do you generally know where to start digging or is it a guess?
Thanks. I generally know the extent based on previous casts, and start digging a little further out than expected. On the first few casts I made, I had no idea if there would be a tunnel shooting off to the side deeper in the ground but it really doesn't happen and anything like that is usually near the surface, so I poke around with a trowel to find the edge. I did hit aluminum with the shovel way out and deep on one cast, and it turned out to be mole tunnels that took most of the aluminum. See cast #064 on the website www.anthillart.com/castings/064/ ......really awesome and wish I had videoed that cast. (no moles harmed and an abandoned fire ant colony).
I'm always amazed by how many hollow 'mini caves' there are right under the surface, but it never collapses when you're standing there getting ready to pour.
You have two different Laws at play here. You have Boyle's Law which states that the volume of a given amount of gas held at constant temperature varies inversely with the applied pressure when the temperature and mass are constant. Also, Gay Lussac's Law (Amontons's Law) states that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas, when the volume is kept constant. Regarding the case in the above video, the temperature is not constant for Boyle's Law, and for Gay Lussac's law, the volume is not constant. Those factors are important to each. For example, in Gay Lussac's Law, it is possible to increase the temperature of a gas, and have its pressure decline. How so? Well, you would need to increase the volume of the gas simultaneously while increasing the temperature, and your increase in volume must be of a sufficient size to overcome any increase of pressure that is caused by the increase of temperature. However, in this particular case, the constant in Boyle's Law (temperature), and the constant in Gay Lussac's Law (volume) are not constants, but instead both of them are deviating from their original values in the appropriate directions so that they are working together to reinforce each other's behavior rather than being in opposition. With Boyle's law, you have the mass of the liquid Aluminum pouring and running down on top of the air in the tunnels, compressing said air, lowering its volume, and hence increasing its pressure, but we know from the zeroth law of thermodynamics that the temperature of the air is increasing from heat being transferred from the liquid aluminum to the air, and the air's temperature will continue to increase until it reaches thermal equilibrium with the liquid aluminum, it is pushed out of the isolating space of the tunnels, or other variables come into play, but we're keeping things fairly simple for now, so there is no real need to touch upon that aspect. With Gay Lussac's Law. the pressure of a gas will increase directly with an increase of temperature, but our volume is not remaining constant, but it is decreasing, which only contributes to increasing the pressure of the air. Therefore, we have several laws, and their corresponding forces, at work here that is causing the air to be forced out of the ant colony's tunnels in sufficiently strong successive bursts that causes the liquid aluminum to gurgle in such a manner.
I understood none of that, but thank you
Tldr
These are great. Any reason you do these at night?
Ahhh the ASMR is strong with this one
That is a beautifully spaced colony
Probably my favorite of all the castings ive seen.
May I just say
Field ants are the only ones who have any idea how to build decent nests
Ants: GAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! IT BURRRNNNNSSSSS!!!! -running around screaming-
actually it's more like alive one second and dead the next; there's no pain involved for them.
PromethiumOxide From what I've heard, ants don't even really have pain receptors. Their nervous system isn't advanced enough.
***** they have an exceptionally basic one, they can sense pressure and effectively nothing else. the humble cucumber actually has a more advanced nervous system... which is weird when you think about it.
PromethiumOxide Haha!! The cucumber? XD
***** Yeah, the cucumber has a decently advanced nervous system, but it's not centralized. it's pretty hard to know what a cucumber's thinking though... probably something along the lines of terrified vegetable-scream while being sliced. cucumbers can probably feel pain though.
I guess the intense bubles is the ants trying to get out
Ever considered trying this with an underground wasps nest (or any other underground insect nest)? It would require a lot of precautions, but seems doable.
i don’t know why but these trigger my ASMR. I like that you keep it quiet and don’t add obnoxious music over it.
Anyone else find this sadly entertaining/ satisfying?
Sadly? why would it be sad? there's probably like one or two straggler ants in there. they abandoned the colony.
do you have like a etsy or some shit what do you do with the casting you made
I'm pretty sure he sells them to museums
+Peter Pham yup
+Peter Pham me to
scientist more likely to buy it because they do alot of research in it
Just fyi, there were no ants in this colony, this one was abandoned this is just the tunnels they made. It says so in the description.
Not only are the casts beautiful but they are educational as well. It's cool to see a 3d model of what different ant colonies look like.
At the beginning it was bubbling like a monster science experiment
He does not kill ants he makes sure they have left before he pours aluminum
I swear these are legit volcanic eruptions
Where are the ants trying to run from the molten stuff lol
The dirt is always so soft when you dig xD
That's because the molten aluminium sucked all the moisture out and after that the dirt just crumbles.
Why doo you do the castings at night? So that might come out like I'm being rude but I don't really mean to sound that way. I love your videos. I'm just really curious
0:19: Aluminum bubbles
0:36: Aluminum sound underneath
I don't know WTF a field ant is, but they sure do make cool tunnels!
Imagine an ant was outside the hill and was like, “what in the WORLD JUST HAPPENED TO MY HOMEEEE?!?!”
You better watch out - if the Anteater Union finds out what you're doing, they may start picketing your home and your workplace!
When people get bored they do strange things..
"Yea, I'm extremely bored I wonder what'd happen if I poured molten aluminum down an ant hill?"
This looks like a lot of fun lol
Warning: Many members of this non-endangered species colony may not have survived.
How many cans of aluminum did this take to make it?!
This is really beautiful but can I ask how it is that you transport that much molten metal out to the location of the ant hill?
Thanks. I can't give away all my secrets :) but I melt it close to where I'm going to pour.
most people just use a small furnace and melt soda cans on the spot to make aluminum
Imagine seeing your neighbor doing this in the middle of the night
Just wondering, is there a reason you always do these at night?
Please tell me that it was for sure abandoned. I plan on keeping F. pallidefulva.
do one with molten copper or brass
+700Apache working on it :)
Curious if you've done casts of much larger field ant nests. There's a huge Formica podzolica nest on my lawn with at least a couple dozen entrances within about 2 ft or 60 cm diameter and I often wonder how big and complex it is underground.
Nice vid! But where do you find those anthills?
what do you use to melt your aluminum
Lmao the aluminum looked like it was vomiting
Do the ants die instantly when u pour the aluminium in do they all die or do some manage to escape? How or where do they escape to? R there ant bodies in ur cast or do they just burn
How did you get started on doing this? and will you ever go to other countries to explore the different species?
Why was it bubbling???
I wish I could order these... they're freaking awesome!
Thank you ants for also being inside support.
You served yourself a useful life.
Penguin Gaming Because ants are in abandoned colonies having useful lives
We respect your life's work and every thing you've done ants
Are those big bubbles evaporated sleeping ants?
I love how he keeps track of the number of massacres like a serial killer
Do you dig the anthills at night?
what do you use to connect the anthill to the wooden plaque?
Does this cost a lot to do? This looks pretty fun and the finished product looks amazing
Not sure how i found this channel but i love it.
Hello there has been a recent study of giant holes appearing where anthills used to be. We have someone who says he saw a giant hole where a anthill used to be.
By this time, most of the ants in the country have heard of the shiny plague of death. The ants are concealing their ant hills, but even so the plague seeks them out brings their colony to the ground. The ants have tried all they could think of. There is no escape.
the bubbles were the oxygen in the ants lungs
*This pleases me*
Just out of interest, why do you always cast these at night? Whats the reasoning behind it? :)
Someone should put this in an art gallery
A lot of air and open space in that one. Wow.
Why don't you use this method to try and get rid of all the fire ant colonies right around the world.
yas
Yes! we kill pests and gain beautiful art! Win win!
Are their ever ants in the ant hill before u start
This is a very nice piece
How long does it take you to excavate? I don't expect a list but an average time would be nice.
Why do you always do it at night?
where do you find all these anthills??
do the ants in the colony get fossilized when the aluminum gets pored or do the ants just burn and disintegrate
+Red Ryg actually worldline may be right read the end of the description
+Red Ryg lmfao read the description kid.
+Red Ryg abandoned colony dumbass
they basically get vaporized because there body's aren't nearly as strong as humans or animal's because u can just kill them by laying your finger on them
Thanks guys i didnt read the description. But thank you anyway
Are the casts fragile?
They're mostly solid, but there can be pieces that you could break off if you tried (or dropped it).
do you need a permeant to do this?
whats the hardest part about doing this? and what is the funnest part?
A termite collony should be fantastic arts, also no offense beacause many of those are empty of all occupants
Does your foundry setup heat from the very bottom or from the side? Do you use propane? Sorry to be a bother, just trying to figure out how to heat that much metal at one time without losing heat and screwing it all up. Thanks.
Very nice structure. Do u sell those by chance. Me an some friends i have would b very interested in opportunity to purchase one. U have a website or something
A quote from anthill art.com: Once the video went super-viral (6,000,000 views in a day), I received an enormous amount of requests for purchases. Literally hundreds per day for a while. I was really caught off guard by this and was not exactly sure what to do as far as selling casts in the future. Realistically, I couldn't respond to every message, so I would find the ones that looked most serious about buying and would tell them "I don't have one now but will try to get one for you soon," and take their name and info and put it on a list. At that point I wasn't sure exactly how many I would be able to turn out but though that I could fine tune my methods to do more. That list got fairly long, but manageable, and I put the info into a spreadsheet and organized it based on what people were looking for (size, price, type) and that became "the list" that I always refer to.
Things slowed a bit in early 2014 but I would still add a few people to the list every day. One day someone asked me what number they were on the list. I didn't have it setup to count, so I added a counter to the list and was shocked to see that it was over 300 people. Realizing that making that many in a reasonable time wouldn't be possible, I had to stop adding people to the list at that time. It would be impossible at this point to make 300 even over several years. The good news for any one on the list who is waiting is that only every few people I offer casts to even respond and buy. So the situation is slightly better for you than it seems, but it still could take quite a while for you to get an offer. I wish that wasn't the case.
So far i love this design of ant house the most
water in the ground turning to steam?
that's a very expensive christmas tree
Just a thought, but I wonder how bronze would fair in this art form. I think the sculptures are awesome don't get me wrong, but they kind of look like they're made out of crunched up tin foil sometimes. :D
Imagine what the ants from Ant Bully would do to this guy! XD
These are fun to watch, I have to admit the first time I saw one of these I was expecting a mini Pompei with little ants looking like they were screaming and running. Too bad
Can you cast bee hives, wasps' nests or termite mounds?
where do you get all this molten aluminum from?!?
use a small furnace to melt down soda cans.
are you using water or something eles
How do you get your aluminum to be so perfect?
Is that a fail?
so my nephew loves this channel, but then he saw bugs life.
Are there more and why do u do them at night?
Why did it start to bubble??
Why did it bubble like that?