paintings, writing, and explorations in sound
red pony alert a semi-fiction by yours truly Forget that I’ve been sneezing and blowing my nose all day. I’m going out for a run so I can sleep properly. If you’re not looking for gold, the roads around Dawson don’t lead to many dramas. I jog out of town at least twice a week,… Continue reading red pony alert
What started as an art gallery project in 2006 took on very public dimensions in 2008 when collaborative artist team Ligorano/Reese staged ice sculptures of the word “Democracy” during the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and St. Paul, as well as in New York City. Initially, the DEMOCRACY ice was linked to audio clips… Continue reading Ligorano/Reese: democracy disappeared
According to Hal Clement, our multicoloured planet Earth is a life-threatening, ice-cold zone for creatures who typically inhabit conditions where sulphur is liquid. Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced life. Yet the expedition had… Continue reading Hal Clement: Iceworld, 1953
Dawson City has been a magnet for filmmakers at least since the Dawson City International Short Film Festival started a decade ago. One of the Dawsonites committed to all things cineastic is the smart, unassuming and committed-to-ballcap filmmaker Dan Sokolowski. The director of the said DCISFF since 2007, Sokolowski himself makes animations that are sometimes… Continue reading ice animation: Dan Sokolowski
This weekend, I was surprised to discover that the Dawson City Music Festival was virtually ice-free! My guess as to why: the weather wasn't too hot; all booze was either beer in cans or wine poured out for you (no cocktails!) which meant no glasses with ice cubes; and the small site doesn't allow for… Continue reading ice-free music fest
Friday, August 7 will be the first ever International Freezer Appreciation Day, according to The Ice Cubicle - and we want you to help make it happen. International Freezer Appreciation Day is a newly-invented celebration of the mechanism that brings us cool refreshment in the summer (ice cream, ice cubes) and suspended tastes of summer… Continue reading announcing: International Freezer Appreciation Day, August 7
puffy, light softness and air-filled interior pores, that's what ice envies shot by me near Whitehorse, Dec 08
November and December 2008. Through some stroke of luck, Vancouver artist Nicole Dextras and I were both artists-in-residence in Dawson City, Yukon, through the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC). We hadn't met previously, so I was delighted to discover that Dextras makes eco-sensitive ephemeral artworks, and that many… Continue reading Nicole Dextras: ice typographies
From a road trip Dec 08: bonfires along the Klondike Highway between Dawson City and Whitehorse prove that deep-cold temperatures still can't kill a fire when the fire has enough fuel. The ice on the car windows before we left chilled my fingers and I wasn't expecting to see massive flames anywhere along the frozen… Continue reading fire beats ice + snow
When a trio of California gray whales was trapped by ice formations near Barrow, Alaska, in late 1988, the Anchorage Daily News tracked their wellbeing from at least Oct. 13 - 29. With temperatures dropping and new ice forming daily, the whales' breathing holes shrank rapidly. People were concerned and tried to find ways… Continue reading whales, chainsaws + ice, Alaska ’88
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