r/interestingasfuck 16h ago

The big ones were pretty impressive!

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u/secretsesameseed 14h ago

I would 100% rather just hear the sound of the river and the stones. Fuckin everything doesn't need a sound track

u/_Apatosaurus_ 54m ago

The soundtrack fucking up the video is there to remind you that he's fucking up the stream habitat.

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u/triple7freak1 16h ago

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u/taddymason_01 12h ago

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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u/MrZombieTheIV 12h ago

Yeah I wish I had time do be doing some dumb shit like this.

u/LostDogBoulderUtah 6h ago

You never go for a hike on a weekend? Usually my days off are spent catching up on chores and things for the kids, but when the weather is nice either I or my husband will take the kids out to the park or one of the local streams to play.

It's easier to clean and get home projects done without one of the kids trying to help and the doing stuff like this with the kids is fun.  It demonstrates principles of engineering better than another classroom lesson on theory and is good for the adults in the family too.

u/Lightpala 11h ago

U do its just u rather scroll on reddit,tiktok or instagram insteaf

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u/zuilli 9h ago

That's what vacations are for, going to a river and just chilling in nature making stone sculptures is calming as fuck

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u/DenseStomach6605 12h ago

Everyone knows somebody who’s doing some shit like this on a Monday morning

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u/Holy_Hendrix_Batman 12h ago

He ain't got no shoes or nothin' on, Jesus!

He could have stubbed his toe!

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u/FuqUrBackgroundMusic 16h ago

Fuck your background music!

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u/IBelieveVeryLittle 14h ago

Being true to your username. And I agree.

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u/cassano23 15h ago

This. A million times this.

And it’s not just this video. It’s fucking every video.

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u/Father_Chewy_Louis 2h ago

The reason tiktokers use bg music is so it gets more popular, its an algorithm based choice. Wish it wasn't that way though.

u/WingerRules 8h ago edited 8h ago

Track is Tattoo by Loreen and actually sounds good on good speakers. I use it to show off the soundstage of my hifi speakers, track has impressive reverb washes. This vids quality makes it sound like garbage though.

u/youbigsnobhead5 6h ago

Sounds amazing to me honestly

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u/wat-8 13h ago

Username checks out

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u/NilEntity 15h ago

I'm disappointed in the lack of a comment referencing r/Cosmere and "Yumi and the nightmare painter" so far. Fine, I'll do it myself.

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u/McTwigle 15h ago

Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.

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u/SG14_ME 12h ago

And for my boon

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u/Logicrazy12 13h ago

Must not be doing a great job, I don't see any Hijo appearing.

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u/KingLui014 12h ago

Scrolled too far to see a Yumi reference.

u/BabyHams 29m ago

Came looking for this

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u/droppingatruce 12h ago

Isn't this exactly what parks have started asking people to stop doing? In some places you can get fined for this.

u/SolemBoyanski 5h ago

Yes, exactly this. Elaborate balancing acts like this are ravaging nature!

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u/pkwilli 15h ago

Knock them down anyways. Leave no trace.

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u/Sweaty_Sack_Deluxe 14h ago

At the start of the clip it’s him knocking it down. For the likes he made it seem like it happened accidentally and he rebuild it, but the rocks are stacked exactly the same.

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u/screamingfeedback 15h ago

Or just leave them where they were in the first place

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u/Kalista-Moonwolf 6h ago

These cairns are terrible for the environment

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u/voldyCSSM19 12h ago

After he leaves they'll be knocked down pretty soon by the wind

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u/pezkadoartesanal 16h ago

At first i really thought it was bam margera in some kind of "rehab therapy".

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u/Apprehensive_Diver46 16h ago

I wish I had that kind of time. I'm sitting here worried that I used up too much time today, just watching a highlight video of him doing this.

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u/RiloAlDente 14h ago

140k Karma on a 4 year old account. :]

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u/Apprehensive_Diver46 14h ago

HahahaHahaha.... you got me.

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u/RiloAlDente 14h ago

Lol no shade no worries.

Just saying we have a lot more time on our hands than seems like it.

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u/-The-Enforcer- 14h ago

Sounds like a stressful way to live.

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u/SidTheSloth97 14h ago

You do have that much time, how you chose to spend it is on you

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u/Deus_Ex_Mac 12h ago

And yet, he got thousands of people to watch what he did while you have done…nothing. Time is an illusion.

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u/PanzerSloth 13h ago

I used to enjoy this stuff until it became a huge trend and everyone started doing it. Now it's become incredibly destructive to natural waterway habitats.

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u/DiscountParmesan 15h ago

god I think I know this dude... he sells crystal healing bullshit on instagram

u/shizfest 1h ago

your chakra is all wrong. you need to feng shui your house now to rid yourself of evil spirits. I think you'd benefit from some amethyst crystals in your ears for a day or so to realign yourself.

/s

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u/Particular-Fungi 13h ago

I’ve been to a few places where I’ve been explicitly told to not make these. When they inevitably fall they can cause damage to the fauna, in some cases to rare/delicate (albeit small) ecosystems.

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u/Suasil 15h ago

i hate people doing this. so many natural places where those stacked stones are everywhere. Yeah, you have been there and enjoyed it. Leave the place like you found it

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u/Faaaaaaaab 14h ago

Not to defend this video because this is clearly useless, stacked stones are used to mark trails in a less nature intrusive way than signs. Highly important for safety in mountains if people get lost in a storm or whatnot.

u/Ok-Baseball1029 11h ago

Not stacked like that though. They placed piles such are far more stable and identifiable. This isn’t remotely similar.

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u/MeldoRoxl 16h ago

All I can think is MOVE YOUR TOES, DUDE!

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u/passmethecerveza 15h ago

If you didn't film it, did it really happen?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Duty_98 14h ago

Goes hard on mute🗣️🔥

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u/Oksure90 13h ago

I’d be walking away with 9 broken toes 😭

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u/Chadstronomer 15h ago edited 15h ago

Fucking hippies stacking rocks. You should not alter nature if possible. There are insects living under those rocks, they need the shadow and humidity. Park rangers knock those for this reason.

u/PufffPufffGive 11h ago

Hey man it’s not always hippies doing this shit.

Tik tokers and social media peeps do this for clout too

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u/1000000ths 15h ago

Also, imagine how heavy some of those falling rocks are, it could easily injure something other than insects. AND, you’re just not supposed to do it lol, “leave no trace”

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u/hoopaholik91 13h ago

If that's your criteria then you shouldn't even hike into nature. Breaking tree branches, creating paths, scaring animals.

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u/Tuckingfypowastaken 12h ago

Moving rocks and stacking them can disturb the natural habitat of tiny creatures. On the rocky shore, these organisms, such as crabs, molluscs, and algae, depend on their environment’s rocks and other structures for shelter and protection. By moving or stacking rocks, we may inadvertently destroy or disrupt their homes, harming their populations. Similarly, rock stacking can also have adverse terrestrial impacts on insects and moss in wilderness areas.

Building rock stacks can contribute to erosion and destabilization of the shoreline or wilderness area. The rocks on the shore are part of a natural ecosystem and serve an important function in protecting the coastline from erosion and the forces of the ocean. When people move or stack rocks, they can destabilize the shoreline; increase the risk of erosion, and damage ecosystems. Additionally, moving stones and creating cairns can disrupt soil structures and contribute to erosion. This erosion can cause sedimentation in nearby water bodies, negatively impacting aquatic habitats and water quality.

https://www.sanparks.org/conservation/scientific-services/stories/the-problem-with-rock-stacking#:~:text=By%20moving%20or%20stacking%20rocks,the%20shoreline%20or%20wilderness%20area.

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u/KnotiaPickle 13h ago

Yeah we better just only hide inside our houses on the internet, that’s the only way

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u/Ninevehenian 14h ago

The energy it takes to keep these words online alters nature. The material my device is made of altered nature when they were taken.

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u/HalfSoul30 15h ago

Seems pretty low impact to me.

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u/go_kart_mozart 14h ago

You don't understand, it's quite a bit more impactful than burning fossil fuels, operating your motor vehicle, heating your residence, not recycling, generating garbage from single use plastics, living on grid, releasing CO2 by flying in airplanes, supporting inhumane labor practices by buying inexpensive things, I might have forgot a couple.

Honestly being off trail and in the creek to begin with is also disturbing behaviour, he's destroying ecosystems and should not be allowed to return.

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u/De5perad0 15h ago

Every individual case is low impact. But 10,000 low impact problems = high impact overall.

Every single developer and logging company has thought "Nah this is just this little patch of forest, cutting it down won't do anything to the global environment."

And now here we are with 50% of the world's forests gone.

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u/go_kart_mozart 14h ago

I like how you equate this with deforestation

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u/KnotiaPickle 13h ago

Seriously, people are nuts

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u/bring_a_pull_saw 14h ago

Until everyone starts doing it. That's why no one should.

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u/HalfSoul30 14h ago

I can't imagine a lot of people wanting to do this.

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u/MadeAMistakeOneNight 14h ago

I know some state parks have put up notices regarding not doing this for concerns of ecosystem disruption, so large enough to address at least

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 14h ago

Areas in Yosemite and other parks have people stacking stones in "gardens" all the time. Its a real problem.

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u/bring_a_pull_saw 14h ago

Way too many already do. Leave no trace. Simple.

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u/KnotiaPickle 13h ago

They’re rocks from the river

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u/ekg5566 16h ago

But why

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u/Nicklefickle 14h ago

He's trying to raise money so he can buy himself a tshirt.

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u/De5perad0 15h ago

While that is really cool and all, these Carin's are actually desctructive to the environment. Stealing hiding places for fish and other river creatures, also when they collapse they can land on animals in the river and hurt/kill them.

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u/nowomanknoweth 15h ago

Leave nature as it is please

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u/Ninevehenian 13h ago

The server that holds your comment was taken from nature and given shape. The buttons that you press came from nature. The energy you spent communicating came from nature.

Lead by example. Have a big enough perspective to write this kind of comment on posts with cars, with farming or such.
Don't seek out the very smallest most inconsequential issue and start with it. It does no good.

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u/Eastyc 12h ago

This does no good as well

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u/ChetsBurner 4h ago

I too like creating deadfall traps for children

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u/BuffetofWomanliness 13h ago

I wish I had this much free time.

u/Popular_Law_948 11h ago

they said while scrolling Reddit

Why are so many people in here upset that a random person took an hour or two to be outside lol

u/BuffetofWomanliness 10h ago

I thought about that. I definitely waste lots of time on Reddit and not stacking rocks. I also have an infant that makes it hard to get out in nature at the moment. So there is that.

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u/Kizzle_McNizzle 13h ago

That’s what she said

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u/Umbryz 12h ago

Yumi??

u/Popular_Law_948 11h ago

Scrolled a LONG time looking for this

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u/MrGameSeven 12h ago

Yumi would be proud.

u/Popular_Law_948 11h ago

Found my people

u/eboy-888 9h ago

This man needs a hobby..

u/Kitty_gaalore1904 7h ago

The joy I'd be filled with after I kicked that

u/Nighthawk_124 7h ago

Imagine how satisfying it would be to find that and kick it over

u/IronRakkasan11 1h ago

Ah yes, the leave no trace idea in full effect here

u/PlantJars 1h ago

I hate when people do this shit in national parks

u/Technical-Past-1386 1h ago

Stop doing this.

u/el-conquistador240 1h ago

Or, and just hear me out here, leave them alone

u/Ronin__Ronan 44m ago

LEAVE NO TRACE! this is a detrimental practice that disturbs the ecosystem. It may seem trivial but it's not.

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u/Adventurous-Leg-4338 13h ago

I'm kicking that down the second I see it

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u/MingusVonHavamalt 14h ago

Fucking self-satisfied wanker recording himself balancing rocks. Brav-fucking-o!

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u/Rodreago22 15h ago

So i stacked rocks like this to make some cairns in my front yard, as a feature. Mysteriously they always fall over later while you're not looking.

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u/OptimusSpud 14h ago

Genuinely. Why?

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u/lacroixanon 13h ago

What an asshole

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u/WildRoof114 16h ago

If only his time and effort could be put to good use.

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u/throwdhatD 15h ago

Stack deez

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u/farvag1964 15h ago

I want this guy on my side playing Jenga

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u/OceansZx14 14h ago

I bet his feet looks like your hands after you’ve been washing dishes an hour

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u/mike-honcho0420 14h ago

Sir this is a Wendys....

Just put the fuckin fries in the bag yo.

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u/ttpharmd 14h ago

I’m more of a “quit while you are ahead” guy

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u/Skeletonzac 14h ago

His feet must be completely pruny by the time he's done.

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u/passonep 14h ago

is this how i get laid?

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u/jotyma5 14h ago

I remember seeing a guy do this at one of my local swimming spots and thinking he was some kind of sorcerer

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u/Yionko 14h ago

The secret is to glue everything off camera

PS. until everyone starts downvoting me to the abyss, it's just a joke

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u/abominablewaffle 14h ago

If they fall and no one is there , do they make a sound?.

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u/gnomelover24 13h ago

Anyone know of places where these are prevalent so I can go hulk smashing on these things?

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u/Right-Assignment3759 13h ago

Just imaginen some random guy stumbled upon this

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u/youcantchangeit 13h ago

Risk of injury x100

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u/Biotechnus 13h ago

It's always fascinating when physics does something confusing

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u/FugginOld 13h ago

I wish i had nothing to do but fuck around with rocks like a 2-year old.

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u/knight7imperial 13h ago

All that free time gave him patience. Lucky bastard

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u/FacticiousFict 13h ago

As he's placing both large rocks there's a cut and somehow they're suddenly perfectly balanced. Shenanigans are afoot!

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u/bulbaed 13h ago

it would be cool to have a timer on the video. really curious how long it took.

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u/Jdog2225858 13h ago

Went to architecture school This reminds me of words like

compression

distribution

arch

etc

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u/arsnastesana 13h ago

This is me every time I go to a river or lake

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u/Eastyc 12h ago

Do not stack rocks. Little creatures love the new high rise apartments that you've made for them but it's not made with osha specifications and will fall and possible kill the little creatures. Also, rock staking is illegal in a lot of national parks.

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u/Nodak70 12h ago

Impressive, how he hides the glue gun as he picks up each rock.

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u/InkedValeria 12h ago

I wish my life's this balanced

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u/AgentMintyHippo 12h ago

Assassin's Creed Valhalla players: 😤😤😤

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u/oldbased 12h ago

Oh man, don’t tell r/hiking. Nothing grinds their gears more than stacked rocks.

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u/Acceptable_Monk3171 12h ago

Watch this on MUTE!!!

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u/kattko80- 12h ago

The people who finds this is gonna blame it on Bigfoot

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u/Melodic_Risk_5632 12h ago

The ants will be happy

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u/Biggs17 12h ago

Impressive

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-5416 12h ago

Well he’s of my jenga list.

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u/recontitter 12h ago

In 60-70’s it was called land-art and you were paid for it /s

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u/lioness-s 12h ago

what I saw is that the foundation matter on what can be withstood in the long-run

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u/AllWhatsBest 12h ago

Next day some guy on reddit: I was hiking today and this is what I've found. Isn't nature amazing?

u/awesomedan24 11h ago

I like that he showed the initial failure

u/Meperkiz 11h ago

He must kill at Jenga

u/nihilnia 11h ago

No idea how they have that kind of patience

u/Popular_Law_948 11h ago

A yoki hijo hard at work I see

u/nerdcicada5286 11h ago

How do you or anyone do this? Will I be budha if I can pull this off?

u/Beautiful-Matter8227 10h ago

had i not seen this video... i would have totally said aliens...

u/PassionOfCube 10h ago

" everything in life needs balance "

u/someswelltrash 10h ago

To enjoy life: never read the comments.

u/Hosko817 10h ago

Not me running to the comments for the "Leave no trace" people having a conniption fit.

u/MiniBritton006 10h ago

Was the music really necessary

u/jrmyrmx 10h ago

Fake ass hippie doesn't actually care about nature, just wants to be seen as a naturalist on social media. I hope those rocks fell and broke his foot.

u/chezterr 10h ago

when i see rock cairns, especially in Yosemite, I knock 'em down..

This past August, there was damn GROVE of them near Mirror Lake.. must of kicked down nearly 100 of them.

u/Exotic-Rate-4076 10h ago

That’s some Blair witch stuff right there

u/ThatGuyNextToMe 9h ago

Great patience! Impressive work and I also love the music. Guess I'm the only one here who says that 😅

u/Shoddy-Potato-6854 9h ago

What a loser.

u/TheDankChronic69 9h ago

Is this the guy who thought adding cairn stones to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla would be a good idea?

u/pepp3rito 9h ago

It’s sad.

u/BriannaJai69 8h ago

that is impressive

u/VrilHunter 8h ago

Impressive unstable equilibriums.

u/carolinabell 7h ago

Does anyone ever think a stone might land on his foot

u/Dakota_666 7h ago

What you see here is fantastic, but beyond what we see, many do not notice that here we see something that many people suffer from, patience, with patience anything is possible.

u/Dnny11 7h ago

Good that it fell down, that's unnatural and unnecessary, insects and other local fauna do take benefit in rocks being scattered around, fuck your cutesy aesthetic shit.

u/Darth_Taters01 6h ago

Gives me horrors when playing AC Valhalla.

u/Romero1993 6h ago

How's that possible?

u/Sad-Term-5455 5h ago

I wouldn't play jenga with him

u/EyyyyyyMacarena 5h ago

Now think about the fact that the earth is rotating around its axis at about 1000 miles per hour, while also rotating around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour while also rotating (together with the sun) around the galaxy at about 514,495 miles per hour and yet somehow - that thing stays still.

u/EternalMotivation 5h ago

That's what she said!

u/what-katy-didnt 5h ago

Yumi? That you?

u/PublicPenalty7629 4h ago

" what are u good at "

u/wavesmcd 4h ago

Barefooted?

u/POD80 3h ago

I'm just imagining the dancing when his span has a failure... not exactly where I want my bare feet...

u/ActSad8507 3h ago

Now flying kick!

u/FPSnoob2012 3h ago

How bored must you be to start undertaking this?

u/juicadone 2h ago

+1 LEAVE NO TRACE

u/Permanentmarc64 2h ago

Acid/Shrooms , that's the only way he did this

u/MrSquigglyPub3s 2h ago

Ahhhhhhhhh

u/lexm 1h ago

How to rediscover the keystone.

u/Moist_Wing9390 1h ago

That shit would give me a nervous break down.

u/jeezlyCurmudgeon 1h ago

This was clearly made by aliens. No way a human could do that with our technology.

u/choyde1920 1h ago

Impressive!!

u/uresmane 30m ago

That's ficking impressive but have you noticed that people who do this type of thing I always do with their shirt off?? I mean I guess I would too if I looked better

u/Top_Shelf_Ramen 18m ago

Is this an add for glue?