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, 05:18 AM #1
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Hey Brandi - How do they do this?
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12-23-2007, 01:33 PM #2
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My guess is they use a little water and well-below freezing temperatures?
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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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