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Anthill Art
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Casting ant colonies and with molten aluminum and other related stuff occasionally. As seen on the Science Channel and elsewhere. Multiple casts are in museums, donated to educators or being used in scientific research.
Casting an Ant Colony in a Stump with Molten Aluminum (Anthill Art Cast #121)
An amazing aluminum cast is made of an ant colony built on the side of a large tree stump. This is the possibly the craziest cast I’ve ever attempted and definitely the most challenging. This is a field ant colony (species Formica pallidefulva) with a single entrance tunnel right up against a large oak stump. Around 22 lb of aluminum was melted and it ended up taking around 10 lb to fill the colony. I didn’t know how exactly how to go about getting the cast out but I knew 1) I can cut wood and 2) I can dig dirt. So, how hard can it be? Turns out, it can be really hard.
I started to dig and cut initially, before deciding that doing that was going to be too difficult. Then I tried burning f...
I started to dig and cut initially, before deciding that doing that was going to be too difficult. Then I tried burning f...
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Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 3: Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Colony Casting (Cast #119)
Просмотров 90 тыс.2 года назад
Part three of the three fire ant colony aluminum casting session. You may notice in some of the other videos, dirt is piled over the colony. This helps to prevent the aluminum from bursting through the side of the colony. You may have also noticed that this wasn’t done for the last few casts and they turned out alright. Well, it finally happened on this cast; the aluminum burst through the hill...
Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 2: Casting in the Daylight for a Change (Cast #118)
Просмотров 59 тыс.2 года назад
Part two of the three fire ant colony aluminum casting session. This one produced lots of smoke during the cast which made it difficult for me to see. Like a true professional I persevered and finished the cast with perfection (other than spilling a little bit of aluminum). It turned out pretty nice! Part 3 coming soon. This is Anthill Art Cast #118 and reached a depth of 12” (30 cm) and weighe...
Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 1: Big Colonies Hidden Under Small Hills (Cast #117)
Просмотров 79 тыс.2 года назад
In this video series I cast a cluster of three fire ant colonies with aluminum. This is the first cast of the three. I had expected these to be fairly small and was surprised by the size of all of them, especially this first one. To dig their colonies, the ants remove dirt while digging underground tunnels and use that dirt to build the surface mound. In general, larger fire ant colonies have l...
Aluminum Fire Ant Colony Cast - Powder Coated with Cast Iron Color (Cast #109)
Просмотров 38 тыс.2 года назад
I melted about 24.6 lb of aluminum to cast this large fire ant colony; however, something went wrong and only about 4 lb went in before the aluminum backed up into the pour hole. I usually refer to these failed or partial casts and it can happen for multiple reasons. In this case, it hadn’t rained in quite a while and I think that the tunnel walls had become dry and crumbly, allowing dirt to fa...
Casting an Ant Colony on a Log with Aluminum (Cast #116)
Просмотров 59 тыс.2 года назад
This fire ant colony was built partially around a dead log that was lying on the ground with about half of it buried below the natural ground surface. I had melted 31.1 lb for a larger cast nearby and had a decent amount leftover so I decided to use the excess to cast this smaller but potentially more interesting colony. The resulting cast has a very noticeable cylindrical cut-out area where th...
Casting a Carpenter Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #110)
Просмотров 86 тыс.2 года назад
Casting a subterranean carpenter ant colony with molten aluminum. I haven’t done many casts of the colonies of this species and have only posted one video of these back in 2014. I started out planning to cast a fire ant colony and then using the leftover aluminum to cast this carpenter ant colony. The fire ant colony cast failed and I was left with way more aluminum than was needed for this col...
Casting a Fungus Farming Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #107)
Просмотров 222 тыс.3 года назад
In this video, a cast is made of a fungus farming ant colony (Trachymyrmex septentrionalis) using an aluminum alloy. If you’ve seen my other videos, you may have noticed that each species of ant has a very distinct colony structure. Fire ant colonies have a dense network of tunnels with many small chambers whereas carpenter ants usually have a single tunnel leading to just a few large flat cham...
Timelapse: Fire Ant Hill on a Log in the Rain, Collapsing and Being Rebuilt
Просмотров 57 тыс.3 года назад
A timelapse of a fire ant hill on a log being collapsed by rain and then being rebuilt by the ants, twice. The playback speed varies throughout the video but it’s somewhere in the ballpark of a few 100x normal speed. The audio is normal speed recordings I made during the timelapse. This is an interesting fire ant colony, being built directly on top of a large rotten log. I don’t see them built ...
Fire Ant Hill Casting with Aluminum (Cast #070)
Просмотров 212 тыс.3 года назад
This is an older fire ant colony casting video that was never posted. More colony casting videos were planned for late last year but the weather would not cooperate when I had time. I'll definitely be doing colony casts this year plus a few more ideas I've been working on. Captions were added to the video to answer two common questions: 1) Why does the hill look like you just piled up dirt? The...
Casting an Aluminum Snowman with the Lost Foam Method (Aluminuman)
Просмотров 33 тыс.3 года назад
An aluminum snowman is made using a snowman shaped piece of styrofoam. The styrofoam is packed in casting sand (Petrobond) to create a mold. When poured into the mold, the molten aluminum vaporizes the styrofoam and fills the mold. This is known as lost foam casting. Holes are then drilled and tapped to attach common hardware such as screws and bolts to make the features. It’s a little weird, I...
Casting a Pumpkin with Molten Bronze
Просмотров 51 тыс.3 года назад
A foam pumpkin is hollowed out, carved into a jack-o'-lantern, then cast with molten bronze. The foam pumpkin is encased in casting plaster (investment). Once hardened, the plaster is placed in a kiln to burn out the foam, creating a void for the bronze to flow into. I don't have much experience doing this type of casting so it came out a little rough. Turned out pretty cool though, despite the...
Casting a Yellowjacket Nest with Molten Aluminum
Просмотров 3,1 млн3 года назад
Pouring molten aluminum into an under ground yellowjacket (wasp) nest. I’ve been waiting to make this video for a long time but I haven’t seen one in my yard, and in a suitable place to pour aluminum, since I posted my first video. Yellowjackets are a very aggressive wasp that build large nests in the ground and deliver many painful stings to anyone who disturbs them. I have experienced this my...
Timelapse: Fire Ant Colony Rebuilding After a Storm
Просмотров 398 тыс.3 года назад
This is a timelapse taken over 15 hours of a fire ant colony before, during, and after a heavy rain storm. There was about an hour and a half of very heavy rain which collapsed the anthill. When the rain stopped, the ants poured out and spent many hours rebuilding the hill bigger and better. I setup my DSLR camera to take pictures with an intervalometer just in time before the rain started. I’v...
Inside a Fire Ant Colony (3D Model of a Real Ant Colony)
Просмотров 227 тыс.4 года назад
Navigating the tunnels and chambers of an actual fire ant colony. This is a 3d scanned model of an aluminum cast of a fire ant colony. In the video you'll first see an animation simulation of running horizontally across the hill of the colony from one end to the other (0:38). Next, the simulation stats at near the original ground surface and travels to the bottom of the colony (1:57). I spent a...
Pouring Molten Aluminum Into a Fish Skull
Просмотров 427 тыс.7 лет назад
Pouring Molten Aluminum Into a Fish Skull
Pouring Molten Aluminum Into a Large Seashell
Просмотров 464 тыс.7 лет назад
Pouring Molten Aluminum Into a Large Seashell
Mushroom Casting with Zinc and Aluminum (First Attempt)
Просмотров 637 тыс.7 лет назад
Mushroom Casting with Zinc and Aluminum (First Attempt)
Five Fire Ant Colony Casting Session Part 3: Casts 4 & 5
Просмотров 17 млн7 лет назад
Five Fire Ant Colony Casting Session Part 3: Casts 4 & 5
Five Fire Ant Colony Casting Session Part 2: Cast 3
Просмотров 2,1 млн7 лет назад
Five Fire Ant Colony Casting Session Part 2: Cast 3
Five Fire Ant Colony Casting Session Part 1: Casts 1 & 2
Просмотров 3,3 млн7 лет назад
Five Fire Ant Colony Casting Session Part 1: Casts 1 & 2
Early Attempts at Mushroom Casting with Aluminum
Просмотров 278 тыс.8 лет назад
Early Attempts at Mushroom Casting with Aluminum
Casting a Mushroom with Molten Aluminum (Cast #091)
Просмотров 1,2 млн8 лет назад
Casting a Mushroom with Molten Aluminum (Cast #091)
Largest Aluminum Fire Ant Colony Cast So Far (Cast #072)
Просмотров 8 млн9 лет назад
Largest Aluminum Fire Ant Colony Cast So Far (Cast #072)
Casting a Field Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #071)
Просмотров 632 тыс.9 лет назад
Casting a Field Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #071)
Casting an Aphaenogaster Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #066)
Просмотров 6 млн9 лет назад
Casting an Aphaenogaster Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #066)
Casting Another Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #061)
Просмотров 837 тыс.10 лет назад
Casting Another Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #061)
Casting a Winter Ant Colony with Molten Zinc (Cast #058)
Просмотров 5 млн10 лет назад
Casting a Winter Ant Colony with Molten Zinc (Cast #058)
Good god that looked like a lot of work but damn it make for a pretty piece!
LEAVE THE YEALLOW JACKETS ALONE!!
so that's what happened to my uncle's wife
The combo of wood and aluminum is super cool!
Molten yellow brass for ant hole.
I never recall a colony of ants (not termites) deep beneath a stump.
Wow i liked the caves the ants made Very cool to see a skeleton of a ant home
How many ants do you think are captured in there
Have you got any splinters while you’re cutting out the wood?
Dude at the Corner of 0:41 , you summoned the flaming worms
Imagine suddenly becoming melted into rock watching you r family suffer the same fate while you can do nothing but watch
Fire ant:*bites me when I was four* Me now(at age 9): guess what *pours moulten lava and gold* now your in hell- *other bug*:AW HELL NAWRRRRRR SHOO-
*@Antscanada has left the universe*
This I what I wanted to do when I was 5
Sure looked like a beaver was in there fighting to comeout and camera jumped to later scene
So you kill living beings for art
Doesn't it kill the ants smh
Quarter way though and almost positive this has to be the dumbest things ever for an outcome
He didn’t think this through with the tres stump being a tree and all
Monster 😢
What a sculpture! You could sell those!
3 years ago: OMG this is so fun Now, after I started growing ants: YOU MONSTER
and does everyone give a shit that he poured aluminum on an ant colony alive? no? you guys are shit
very cool video! good job!
I hate fire ants, good job bro
2:46 kitty?
anthill art: "Casting a blackhole with molten aluminum"
The fire ants: We come here to raid what was your nest, before being molten
1:44 おっ、何だか形的にChristmasTree🎄みたいだネ*
Killer of small creature of god 😢
This is the Hiroshima of the ant race
If we're being more historically accurate, this would be more like the eruption of Pompeii
Those are not smoke.. Its all burning Soul of this ant clan
Always reminds me of Beetlejuice sculptures
I've always had a question about these anthill casting projects. There is always a nice little convenient "funnel" at the top where the molten aluminum is poured. I'm not much of an entomologist, but do the ants just naturally do that for the caster?
Does anyone make any money from these aluminium casts. Be awesome to have one in your living room.
one question…were their live ants in it. If so ….bet you don’t answer.
he hasnt been active in a year so obviously he wouldnt answer your question
Just casually performing Armageddon on the ants
If you guys can’t read the description these are red imported fire ants which are invasive this guy probably saved a ton of native ants
La estupidez humana llega hasta límites insospechados.🤦🤦🤦
Watching these videos just makes me sad, and I don't know why cause I'm not an ant lover.
Those ants are now cooked (aka popcorn)
Barefoot print would be better, but this is cool.
Yes! No mercy for those bastards! They almost sent me to a hospital once. Nasty bites!
It's inhumane, why would they do that?
Can you ever see casts of the ants or hornets themselves or just the structure of the burrows?
Fun Fact: this is how full metal jacket bullets are made
Mataste a menos del 0,25% de la población de hormigas en la tierra, así que no te sientas mal 😂
How much would you sell that for
Could you have done it in brass? More color appropriate?
I’m going to show this to a vegan 😂