While I haven’t had the need to even get the blankets out of storage yet we have been busy dreaming up ideas and trying to plan what events we are going to try to go to.
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!
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!
Here is our final piece. We didn’t win the event- Mexico did- but it sure was a great time out here.
Sorry for the lack of updates! Very busy! Here are some pics- write you own captions!!
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!
Woke up feeling great – gonna go to the Blue Moose for breakfast!
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!!
We are at the airport. Everyone is having a great time.
Ok – it’s Halloween and that means we have almost firmed up all our plans for 2011 – Halloween might mean something else for you all.
One thing is this – we need some money. It has become known to us over the years that our tools suck. The best tools we have are one I have “borrowed” from other teams. I have known this for a while, and just tried to get by with what we have, but it really doesn’t seem to be the best interest of making the best sculptures. We really do struggle with the bad tools every year – the thing is that framing chisels and the other chisels everyone else has are seriously expensive. We usually just get by – everyone on the team being artists and usually I spend a lot that I don’t have… well – you get the idea. We want to buy some new tools. We need money for airfare. We have some serious expenditures – grid boxes – clay – lumber for the frames – my snowboard bag ripped because I carry saws in it so I need to buy a new one to carry the saws I guess… and did you know they charge for luggage? We have a good 150 lbs of tools….
Alex got us some sort of 501(c)3 umbrella through his arts organization, so we sent some letters out – Kombi has always been great about sending us gear, and now Switchback Brewing gave us some funding… but we still need some more.
So I made this donate button on paypal – Maybe you can help? I will send you something!
Thanks -
Michael
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