paintings, writing, and explorations in sound
Remember that time last summer when you were rushing to a friend's barbeque and realized you were out of ice? Chances are you didn't have enough in your own freezer to pack a cooler full enough to chill your pop/beer/white wine, so you stopped at a gas station or grocery store and bought a back… Continue reading conspiracy charges in ice cube trade
by Craig Carpenter It's said that every seven years rabbits have their year and propagate at alarming rates. The day I decided to sacrifice the fat one hopping about my front doorstep, it was one among thousands dotting the northern meadow outside my cabin at Head Acres, the cabin community 30 km north of Whitehorse.… Continue reading craig carpenter’s yukon freezer bunny
Hope you don't mind, the Ice Cubicle took a little jaunt south (to Vancouver and environs) to breathe some ocean-side air. But now I'm back in Dawson and appreciating the first sips of winter. There aren't any glaciers within walking distance from here, but there are some up the Dempster Highway so I'll hope to… Continue reading athabasca glacier: rapid retreat
About 10% of the world's fresh water is stored in the Greeland ice sheet: a cap of freshwater ice that covers more than 50,000 km² of inland Greenland's landmass. If the Greenland ice sheet melts completely, predictions are that the release of that 10% of water will raise our planet's sea level about 7 metres.… Continue reading Greenland ice sheet: sensitive + melting fast
Just 2 days ago we were walking around in t-shirts, wondering if it was going to get cold before the end of September. This morning, the answer: Now we're talking. Still seeing the Yukon River flow by (freeze-up won't happen til early November, typically). And the puddles are still releasing their thermal-protection layers of ice… Continue reading frozen puddles: so it begins
(February 2010 update: Arctica is now set to launch on Friday, February 12, online and in a little studio in Whitehorse too, if you're nearby) Just before I moved to Dawson in April, a writer friend in Vancouver e-introduced me to an editor/writer in Whitehorse who was putting together an editorial team to plan an… Continue reading Arctica: circumpolar online mag seeks subs
The Ice Cubicle is delighted to report that WIRED magazine published a whole set of gorgeous NASA photos of glaciers online this week (Monday Sept. 21). Stunning Views of Glaciers From Space is a visually incredible, helpfully annotated batch of images. Dates ranging from 2001 (a false-color photo of the Erebus Ice Tongue in Antarctica,… Continue reading NASA on glaciers
I haven't seen the stage version of La Face Cachée de la Lune, a play written by Robert Lepage and first performed at Le Theatre du Trident in Quebec in 2000. But last night I had a great time watching the 2003 film version, in English subtitles. The title translates as The Dark Side of… Continue reading ice diplomat: Lepage’s Dark Side of the Moon
look gr*eat and spee,d *up your metabolis+m I looked at spam tonight because we discussed online security today. Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. It's true I looked at spam tonight after we… Continue reading canine fluent ice
when icebergs collapse, we humans gasp and exclaim. and not only in Canada. West Greenland: Twillingate, Newfoundland: Point Armour, Labrador: well, actually this footage is silent, but you might add your own sound track while watching it: footage of an ice bridge in Argentina collapsing, with musical mellowness added on top after the fact: and… Continue reading iceberg collapse = human noise
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