3/17/2005: Massive ice sculpture in Alaska... collapses

[glatt]

That's got to be some water bill leaving those hoses running all winter...

It's too bad it collapsed. I was following this thing, and hadn't checked in in a few weeks. I'm sad, kind of like when Old Man of the Mountain in NH collapsed.

[lookout123]

that is absolutely awesome. i hope nobody was standing close when it fell.

in july the guy will be out in his yard and find a pile of bones of some poor soul who was admiring the artwork.

[BigV]

From the story: "Reeves expects to have accumulated around 80,000 tons of ice..."

It crushed itself.

You can see evidence of just how heavy and hard the ice was pressed, by looking at the brilliant blue parts in the wreckage of the last photo. That's the same blue you see in glaciers due to the extreme pressure compressing the ice. The reason for glaciers' blue color is that the density of the ice is so compressed that the ice crystals' forms are such that they absorb all the other colors of the light spectrum.

A vertical conical baby glacier.

Originally Posted by glatt

That's got to be some water bill leaving those hoses running all winter...

It's too bad it collapsed. I was following this thing, and hadn't checked in in a few weeks. I'm sad, kind of like when Old Man of the Mountain in NH collapsed.

I guess the water was free since he paid $200 to $300 per month in electricity pumping it out of the ground.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by BigV

From the story: "Reeves expects to have accumulated around 80,000 tons of ice..."

It crushed itself.

You can see evidence of just how heavy and hard the ice was pressed, by looking at the brilliant blue parts in the wreckage of the last photo. That's the same blue you see in glaciers due to the extreme pressure compressing the ice. The reason for glaciers' blue color is that the density of the ice is so compressed that the ice crystals' forms are such that they absorb all the other colors of the light spectrum.

A vertical conical baby glacier.


I guess the water was free since he paid $200 to $300 per month in electricity pumping it out of the ground.

I think I recall him spraying dye on it. Was any of the dye blue?

And if it was $200-$300/month, that's over a grand for the sculpure in water alone.

[lookout123]

that's over a grand for the sculpure in water alone

yeah, but he has now been featured in the cellar... how can you put a price on that?

[glatt]

I'm glad he did it. It's extremely cool.

[Buckethead]

Originally Posted by BigV

From the story: "Reeves expects to have accumulated around 80,000 tons of ice..."

It crushed itself.

You can see evidence of just how heavy and hard the ice was pressed, by looking at the brilliant blue parts in the wreckage of the last photo. That's the same blue you see in glaciers due to the extreme pressure compressing the ice.

Actually, that was blue dye (in the ice tower, not the glaciers).