VermontSnows.com Blog » Snow Sculpting http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog Snow Sculpture from the Vermont State Snow Sculpting Champions Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:40:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kickstarter for new tools! http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/12/kickstarter-for-new-tools/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/12/kickstarter-for-new-tools/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:41:56 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/?p=229

Check out this video we made to try and raise money for tools on Kickstarter – we are 65% there so far – and would love your help.

If you can help out financially, that is great! If not, maybe you can spread this kickstarter link around to your networks that would be wonderful!

Here is the kink to the kickstarter!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1037253806/snow-sculpting-tools-for-team-vermont

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/12/kickstarter-for-new-tools/feed/ 0 2012 – application sent – plane tix purchased http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/10/2012-application-sent-plane-tix-purchased/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/10/2012-application-sent-plane-tix-purchased/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:37:07 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/?p=211 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!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/10/2012-application-sent-plane-tix-purchased/feed/ 0 Woo hoo! http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/woo-hoo/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/woo-hoo/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:35:38 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/woo-hoo/ Here is our final piece. We didn’t win the event- Mexico did- but it sure was a great time out here.

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/woo-hoo/feed/ 0 Day three or four http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/day-three-or-four/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/day-three-or-four/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:21:14 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/day-three-or-four/ Sorry for the lack of updates! Very busy! Here are some pics- write you own captions!!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/day-three-or-four/feed/ 0 Condo time http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/condo-time/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/condo-time/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:25:39 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/condo-time/ Hanging in the condo getting the model tight and prepping tools. Trying to make some time for a swim. Gonna meet the other teams at the Gold Duster tonight at 8 for an unofficial howdy do!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/condo-time/feed/ 0 Travel Day http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/travel-day/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/travel-day/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:32:51 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/travel-day/ Today is turning out to be a great travel day! We had a little bit of a day leaving the bitter cold of Burlington, but we met Leslie in Chicago right on schedule and are right now winging our way to Denver. The car service in Denver already called me because our flight number was incorrect but now that is all straightened out.
As we were headed to the gate in Burlington I saw the TSA going through our bag full of chisels and knives and scrapers. Hopefully they all made it through. Taking tools on planes is weird. Not to mention the clay model. I put big signs in the luggage this year saying “VT state snow sculpting team. caution. Sharp tools” and maybe that helped with the clarity. We’ll see!!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/travel-day/feed/ 0 Civil Twilight. http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/civil-twilight/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/civil-twilight/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:07:20 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/civil-twilight/ We are at the airport. Everyone is having a great time.

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/01/civil-twilight/feed/ 0 Woi hoo!!!!!! http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/woi-hoo/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/woi-hoo/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:15:16 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/woi-hoo/ exhausted! Up all night! And all done!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/woi-hoo/feed/ 0 Model pretty much finalized! http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/model-pretty-much-finalized/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/model-pretty-much-finalized/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:53:05 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/model-pretty-much-finalized/ Here it is! Worked on it all day long, cept for the hot tub time!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/model-pretty-much-finalized/feed/ 0 And so it begins! http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/and-so-it-begins/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/and-so-it-begins/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:10:21 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/and-so-it-begins/ chilis!! this is where it starts! ohare and inspiratios.

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2010/02/and-so-it-begins/feed/ 0