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My guess is they use a little water and well-below freezing temperatures?
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12-23-2007, 05:18 AM #1
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Hey Brandi - How do they do this?
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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?
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12-23-2007, 01:33 PM #2
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12-23-2007, 04:30 PM #3
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I have a sand friend who also does ice so I will ask her for you and get back to you.Merry christmas!
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12-23-2007, 05:53 PM #4
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They start with 20 ton, 12-foot-tall blocks of snow and carve them down using their hands and permitted hand tools.
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12-23-2007, 06:07 PM #5
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Wow!
Very cool art!!
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12-23-2007, 06:24 PM #6
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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.
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12-23-2007, 07:05 PM #7
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I agree, Kathi - and there is no better place to celebrate winter than Breckenridge.
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12-24-2007, 06:43 AM #8
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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!Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
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12-24-2007, 06:43 AM #9
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I have freinds celebrating christmas there right now!
Originally Posted by IFjane
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
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12-24-2007, 11:33 AM #10
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Oh yeah, I guess it's not a good idea to just turn the heater up Originally Posted by Brandi
If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
