VermontSnows.com Blog 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 Day 2 – US Nationals 2012 http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2012/02/day-2-us-nationals-2012/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2012/02/day-2-us-nationals-2012/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:40:31 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/?p=236 Day 2 Sculpting – Slept till lunch – carved all afternoon – on way to dinner – Alex has photos soon! Slushy but workable conditions!! The shape is getting realized to what degree we can make it. The snow cylinder was about a foot less then we thought it would be due to meltage!

So – less then ideal – but we are forging ahead. Check out the Facebook page for pics!!!

There is also this live webcam - I hear you gotta refresh the page a bunch to get it to work.

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2012/02/day-2-us-nationals-2012/feed/ 0 We’re Here – We are ready to rock it. http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2012/02/were-here-we-are-ready-to-rock-it/ http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2012/02/were-here-we-are-ready-to-rock-it/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:25:22 +0000 michael http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/?p=233 Met the other teams last night in the beautiful Bella Vista Suites Vista room – much like Brigadoon where a town reveals itself once a year, we see the teams from all over the US we have met many times before, and add some new teams to the mix.

The weather is downright warm. It will probably play a big part in everyones piece. But what can you do about the weather?

Live webcam!!!

http://walworthcountytoday.com/weblogs/video-today/2010/feb/03/lake-geneva-area-realty-winterfest-web-cam/

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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

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From his website – “It reveals not only how these enormous sculptures are created but what drives these artists to endure such harsh conditions to create this extreme art form.”

Click the pic to go to his site!

Snow Carvers Documentary
Best part? We are in it. We speak and everything!

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]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/12/new-snow-sculpting-pins/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!

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AND – check out this awesome trailer for this documentary that our new friend Peter shot as part of last year’s competition. It catches the grandeur and the marathon like nature of the event so well!

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All Done!

In Progess!

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!

]]> http://www.vermontsnows.com/blog/2011/03/vermont-state-snow-sculpting-competition-2011/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!!

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