Blue ice blocks anxiously lined up to be chainsawed into a christmas penguin.
After being rough cut with a chainsaw, the pieces are fit together and then water poured over them to freeze them together. The temperature is only 12 degrees, so the "glue" sets up pretty quick.
Then they bring out the tools are start hacking away. This amount of carving takes place in about 2 minutes.Heres a little video of the carving process.
All else is on the move. The Candy House is getting really tall, the Nativity is well on its way, and the Train as well.... Here are some pictures..
Candy House.......See the guy on the Scaffolding...the highest point is 18'-0"
Ice lighting...here you see the base course of ice for the slide walls. There is a long trough cut into the ice into which they place LED lights. These lights will illuminate the slide walls from the inside. The curious fact is that the lights cant touch the ice, as the heat from the lights melts the ice...so they take the used chopsticks from lunch and set them into the ice and the hang the lights off of them so they dont actually touch the ice...
Enough for today...Zai Jian (zy-jien)...(goodbye in Chinese) here is picture of me and Mr. Lee..hes the art Director from the HCC side of things...I will send out the penguin birth announcement on the next posting..Stay tuned
2 comments:
Hi LB! Very nice blog! Love the way you have it laid out and I very much enjoy the title. You're lookin' svelt in your yellow safety hat, my friend! Hope all is going well for you in freezerland and that you're not too lonesome yet...I'll check back in soon.
-mjm
Larry Brown,
Great blog! I'm so glad you are back with us. The team would not be the same without you. I look forward to seeing you soon and thank-you for your talent and dedication to make all of this happen. Have some donut bread pudding for me. (Normalites rule!)
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