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Mr. Bloom
12-23-2007, 05:18 AM
I know your chosen medium is sand and that you use good sand, packed well.

Snow seems to me that it's a more unpredictable medium...how do they do this?

http://gobreck.com/page.php?pname=winter/events/annual/breckenridge-snow-sculpture-winners
Tuckervill
12-23-2007, 01:33 PM
My guess is they use a little water and well-below freezing temperatures?

Karen
Brandi
12-23-2007, 04:30 PM
I have a sand friend who also does ice so I will ask her for you and get back to you.Merry christmas!
Kathi
12-23-2007, 05:53 PM
They start with 20 ton, 12-foot-tall blocks of snow and carve them down using their hands and permitted hand tools.
Tri Girl
12-23-2007, 06:07 PM
Wow! :eek: Very cool art!!
Kathi
12-23-2007, 06:24 PM
Teams come from all around the world to participate in this competition.

The bicycle is call "Velo-City". In this sculpture "velo-City" takes the form of quickness of motion generated through on cyclist or the aerodynamic flow created by a wedge of drafting cyclists. It was sculpted by a team from New Hampshire.

USA Today named this event one of the top 10 ways to celebrate winter because of the way Breck celebrates the perfect powder called "white gold".

Snow is beautiful in its own right but being transformed into beautiful works of art makes it an awesome sight.
IFjane
12-23-2007, 07:05 PM
I agree, Kathi - and there is no better place to celebrate winter than Breckenridge.
Brandi
12-24-2007, 06:43 AM
We tried snow scupture once a long time ago! It was fricken cold. And being from California (born and raised) we were not versed in the art of staying dry and warm while doing this. Our Ice sculpting friends later explained all the little details on it and we had done everything wrong. Like you need rotating gloves at least 10 pairs to change into as the snow melts on your hands. I believe thier tools are similar to ours in sand but I believe they use things that help scrap it more.
Anyway...it is to cold for me. Our Canadian sand sculptures do it every winter and love it. But then again they were raised in the stuff. I preferr shorts and sandles!
Brandi
12-24-2007, 06:43 AM
I agree, Kathi - and there is no better place to celebrate winter than Breckenridge.

I have freinds celebrating christmas there right now!
Mr. Bloom
12-24-2007, 11:33 AM
It was fricken cold. And being from California (born and raised) we were not versed in the art of staying dry and warm while doing this.

Oh yeah, I guess it's not a good idea to just turn the heater up;)