Snow Sculpture from the Vermont State Snow Sculpting Champions

So things are getting back to normal after out big national win. We got a bit of press here at home and even got TEAM VERMONT day declared by the mayor! Woohoo!

I have been in touch with the organizers of the Italian Alps competition and they say they won’t know the theme until probably a month before the competition – so that is pretty alarming. A- we never worked within a theme – B- we usually think things out a couple months in advance. But ah well – that’s the way the canolli rolls I suppose!

Doing a lot of work – some site build outs – did a nice theme makeover for this Vermont Advertising Agency  that I thought was pretty cool looking – and then the LocalvoreToday.com project has been taking up some time too – links to that soon! Still under wraps! See you soon!

So Alex, Brooke and I are headed back to Lake Geneva Wisconsin to compete in the US National Snow Sculpting Competition in late January of next year. We had a lot of good ideas, but this ‘vortex’ I had been talking about for a while now, translated by Brooke, was the clear winner. We wondered extensively about what to put inside the vortex – there was budhha, a figure, a word sculpture, a tiny tiny tiny village, an “In case of emergency break glass” box made of ice with who knows what inside, a classic snowman, a vase of flowers, etc. We were toying around with a peace sign, or maybe a hand in the peace sign shape, but then Alyssa suggested a puzzle piece, and it just clicked. Finding Inner Peace is a puzzle, of sorts, for everyone, in their own way. So the three of us will have to find ours in the furious three and half day sculpting marathon coming up in January. We hope you like it.

It will be about 12 feet tall. That puzzle piece will be about six feet tall.

Will the people get it? Will the other sculptors get it? Who knows!

Will we get?

Hopefully!

Here are some pics of the snow sculpture we did. I wasn’t even going to enter this year but I called Brooke just to check and he was stoked, so he got me all stoked. Then I went down to meet him and talk about designs, as we had talked about robots on the phone, robots are always awesome, but when I got to his place he had a sketch in his notebook of this molecule-looking shape and I was like – Let’s make a snow sculpture of that! and he was all – Okay! So that’s how these big snow decisions get made sometimes.

I am really glad we ended up doing this snow sculpture event, because it was a great time, weather was good and the people in the competition were fun, but also making an abstract snow sculpture sparked a whole bunch of ideas that I feel really happy having in my head right now.

So here are some pics! Thanks to our sponsors! Woohoo!

With the model - stage 1.7!