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A story of frozen speed, submitted by a person with an intriguing freezer experience. Amy Reiswig is a researcher, writer and editor who abandoned her freezing home town of Montreal for temperate coastal life in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Freeze. As a verb or imperative, “freeze” ultimately means that something (or someone) gets slowed down, stopped.… Continue reading frozen: icon of hyper flight
For the final celebration of last week's International Freezer Appreciation Day: Rachel Wiegers, Dawson's belle, tells the story of buying, emptying, and moving a freezer in preparation for the winter. Wearing fur-lined high heels from the thrift store in Mayo, just because that's Rachel-style. Much thanks to James Wood for helping lift, and for driving… Continue reading IFAD final: Rachel’s Yukon freezer expertise
Here's a gentle, even downright sweet, segue between last week's celebrations of International Freezer Appreciation Day and the final IFAD post that will go up on Wednesday. Summer is already winding down up here in Dawson, so I was particularly envious of this summer-lush photo from a blog called Ceres Secrets: Musings from a seasonal… Continue reading violet ice cubes
Freezers. What to say, we're grateful they exist. Love 'em, love their contents, love the ease of it all. In fact, a note from Carolyn Hanbury, in La Mortola, Italia, described how she loved her deep freeze enough to haul it on a long journey: My husband and I packed up everything in the removal… Continue reading IFAD #4: straightup freezer appreciation
In fact, the more I looked at the conversations and pix generated by the idea of International Freezer Appreciation Day, the less certain I become about guessing the contents of anyone's home coldbox. from filmmaker and bon vivant Nadine Lucas and her sweetheart Steve Bailey (Victoria, BC), evidence of "late night sleep deprived humidity delirium"… Continue reading IFAD #3: unusual freezer inhabitants
I suppose domestic freezers are intended for preservation of edibles, but IFAD contributors demonstrate there are plenty of good uses for the cold-making technology - even after the freezer's congealing powers have ceased. Maureen Abbott, a Dawson City fine art painter, notes that freezing her palette - and sometimes even a canvas-in-progress - extends the… Continue reading IFAD #2: multipurposed freezers
In the process of gathering celebratory materials for IFAD (International Freezer Appreciation Day) it came to my attention that there is a whole body of freezer literature out there. Here are the examples I learned about - three deep. The closing tale is The Rules of Freezer Wars, a fiction that Toronto writer Pasha Malla… Continue reading International Freezer Appreciation Day (IFAD) #1: the freezer literatures
(In honour of Tim Burton's new Alice in Wonderland film opening soon...ish, as in, March 2010) One of the most esoteric, poetic descriptions ever invented for a foamy beverage with allegedly unique capacity to transform from ice state to hot liquid. I'm afraid to ask what colour it might be. Perhaps a pseudo-latte shade of… Continue reading drink me: US Patent Application 20090104316
On a busy week with a sculpture to make, 2 articles to write, and images to prep for International Freezer Appreciation Day, I'm taking the liberty of posting this educational segment about polynyas from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre. Just to note first, though, that polynyi (alternate plural) occur in both the… Continue reading phenom: polynyas
Sometimes the news media give us moments of whimsy and delight. Last December 22, the weather blog for KOMO News (Seattle, Washington) posted these two photos of an "Old Man Winter" icicle, submitted by a Jeremy Olden from Lake Stevens. Comments in response to the post quickly turned skeptical about the "naturalness" of this face,… Continue reading icicle face + exclamations
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