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RSS FeedsStone stackers defy gravity at European championships
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22 april 2019 03:52:59

 
Stone stackers defy gravity at European championships
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Expertly balancing one rock on top of another at the European Stone Stacking Championships, competitors combine skill and artistic creativity to come up with gravity-defying constructions. Now in its third year, the event takes place in the Scottish coastal town of Dunbar, east of the capital Edinburgh. Saturday`s competition down on the Eye Cave Beach was all about quantity: the most stones balanced vertically in 30 minutes. Sunday`s battle put the emphasis on artistic merit: creating anything from stones or found objects within three hours. The winner receives a trip to the Llano Earth Art Festival in Texas where the 2020 World Rock Stacking Championships will be held. `Stone stacking is one of the most ancient art forms. It may go back to the beginning of mankind,` organiser James Craig Page told AFP. `However, it was brought to the attention of the public


 
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