paintings, writing, and explorations in sound
It's going to be a hot Canada Day in Dawson – forecasts call for 25º C – and it would be an amazing day to be out on the Arctic Ocean if I was just a little bit closer to that locale. But cooling can happen through the mind, right? A contemplation of ice hummocking, a specific… Continue reading phenom: hummock, bummock + floeberg
Gordon Halloran probably makes the biggest ice paintings in the world. Last Thursday several media outlets announced that Halloran will be making a wall of ice about 125 feet long and 13 feet high for the entrance to the 2010 Olympics' Richmond, B.C. ice arena, the O Zone. (Here's the Vancouver Sun's article, for… Continue reading ice painting for the Vancouver Olympics
Another moment where ice and percussion spontaneously coexist: Vancouver artist Julianne Claire submits this spontaneously filmed short video Ice Ice, 2008; legs - Mark Dahl. Julianne writes: "A late night walk down Hastings Street. Trying to find winter rhythms where we can, where movement is determined by the forecast, the mold breaks, and steps are returned."
portrait of a 14" x 6" ice drum, melting as it waits to be played/broken/played until too broken to be played meg walker, ink on paper, 10" x 8", feb 09, vancouver b.c.
It wasn’t the flood waters that destroyed three dozen homes and buildings in Eagle, Alaska. It was the ice. One cubic foot of ice weighs an astounding 60 pounds, a formidable force once it starts moving. Even now huge pieces of grimy ice remain everywhere, creating a mud bog as they slowly continue to melt… Continue reading ice in news: Dawson work crews assist ice-crushed Eagle, AK
. Clap for the Zamboni (an ice-tale memory for The Ice Cubicle's latticework of files, from Vancouver writer Luella Iwasiuk) Each year, as Christmas would grow closer, my parents would deposit my siblings and me at the Prince George coliseum ice rink so they could “meet with Santa to discuss our presents” – in other… Continue reading ice tale: Clap for the Zamboni
ice among us. continuous complex sounds. a minute's worth of found ice music coming from a piece of jumble ice on the yukon river shore near dawson city, yukon, late may 2009.
Lance Blomgren's Operation Northern Shield (ONS) is a speculative research project investigating the possibility of new settlements in the Canadian arctic. Inspired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s well-publicized obsession with Canadian sovereignty in the far north—not to mention its wealth of resources and economic potential—ONS depicts a world where ice is both material and idea, building material… Continue reading ice in lit: Operation Northern Shield (excerpt)
Martin Mittelstaedt writes in today's Globe and Mail about the not-so-surprising news that scientists who research the effects of climate change in the Arctic are dramatically adding to carbon emissions themselves. "Arctic researchers leave 'tremendous' footprint," he headlines it. University of Calgary caribou researcher and postdoctoral fellow Ryan Brook has published his emission tallies in… Continue reading ice in news: Arctic researchers and carbon emissions
With the exception of remote luxury ice-hotels and a few contemporary winter festivals, large-scale, humanly constructed ice architecture has become increasingly rare. This is either a shame or simply a reflection of our increasingly pragmatic culture, depending on your perspective. But from 1883-1889, anyone living in or traveling to Montreal could enjoy the incredible Ice… Continue reading Ice Palaces in Montreal, 1883-89
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