paintings, writing, and explorations in sound
after a two year pause, keeping The Ice Cubicle archived so all these images & interviews were not lost, there are still moments now & again when i see something that needs to be added to this collection. this blog was originally a year-long project, but took a bit longer, running from may ’09 to… Continue reading ice = rebirth
The wait is over. It's been more of a melt-off than a break-up this spring 2010, but the Yukon River is running again. The ice broke its grip at 3:12 a.m. this morning, according to Joyce Cayley, speaking on CFYT Radio on behalf of IODE. The annual Ice Guessing Contest is over. But what's the… Continue reading dawson ice guessing contest: it’s all over
Almost as good as a helicopter: the website http://www.mammothmapping.com provides fodder for spring break-up obsession with photos taken from the Sunnydale Lookout, south and west of Dawson City. In other words, from the "other" side of the Yukon River, providing views currently unavailable to any of us in town unless we hire air transportation. Here's… Continue reading almost as good as a helicopter
To give you (and myself) a pause from the tension of waiting for the Yukon River to break, I'd like to direct you a recent post on Manuela's blog Every Day Life in the Northern Yukon Wilderness. Manuela chronicles the flow of Yukon life dozens of kilometres away from any town. Manuela's posts are always… Continue reading another yukon river view: caribou crossings
Today, again I walked along the Yukon from town to the Yukon-Klondike confluence and all the way to the bridge that goes over the Klondike. All clear (well, silty) running water at the bridge. And a moment of stillness at the confluence. 1 point goes to spring fever for keeping everything under control and managing… Continue reading spring fever 2: ice 2 – momentary truce
At last!! Yesterday part of the Klondike River began breaking, which means the Yukon River has a whole segment of activity now too, where the two rivers meet. I can't tell you how amazing it feels to see running water, water in movement, again. These few moments were shot on my camera around 6:00 tonight,… Continue reading spring fever 1: ice 1 – first signs of river thaw
What is a pingo? An ice-cored hill that only exists where permafrost exists, because permafrost is what pushes the ice upwards like a giant pimple. There are about 5,000 of these in the world, and 25% of them - 1350, to be precise - exist in the Mackenzie Delta on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. I love… Continue reading phenom: pingos of the far north
they're everywhere, icicles, and this formation is the most complex one I've seen yet. in a rare anti-gravity feat, icicles attempt imitation of coral or of cumulus. caught rising from a heat vent at the Nova Hotel, Inuvik, last weekend.
A piece of news about an iceberg, in an article that isn't about climate change for once. I like knowing that this massive, dense thing has been floating around for a decade - for 9 years as part of a bigger berg, and now for about a year on its independent own. I like knowing… Continue reading 10-yr-old iceberg floats near Oz
The properties of garbage pail plastic: not so stretchy. The properties of water turning to ice: a phase change that releases lots of energy, and needs to expand. I know that. A friend recently promised to teach me how to use a chainsaw on a block of ice. Though the promise was made "under the… Continue reading ice 1, plastic 0
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