Impossible-solutions

This blog will be moved to a new location during 2016. I have to make space on this domain for the next upcoming piece of art. Stay tuned! Picture was taken by Manu Keggenhoff

Pictures of the Trophy

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Picture of the nice trophy will come soon. I stowed mine already in the luggage. Tomorrow we fly back to Germany.

During the fireworks which was part of the Whitehorse “Rendezvous” people gave “Be one” a break and we could make some videos. Right after the firework the crowd came back and all wanted to be one with the sculpture.

1st – Team Yukon

2nd Team Alaska

3rd Team Germany

 

Snow sculptors at “shoe in the door” session. We learned that if someone puts a shoe in the door of a hotel room it means that the room is open for some drinks. Here you can see some of the carvers from Sweden, Korea, Japan Canada

“Be one” and fireworks.

“Be one” was a like a magnet for the visitors. In the night the sculpture showed the full potential. People queued in front of our sculpture, everybody wanted to interact with “Be one”.

Picture was taken by Manu Keggenhoff

The challenge is over and when reflecting on the week it was an exciting journey. There were so many variables in the game, the temperature, the time needed to build the sculpture, the time we had left to do missing coding for the interaction and the artificial snow with lots of voids. Lothar’s design turned out to be the right answer to all of that. The design was perfect for the environmental situation. “Be one” was the only sculpture with a sun roof and so the temperature was not so much a problem for us. Finally the interaction also worked as planned.

We are proud to say that we created a piece of art combining high class snow sculpting with “Maker culture art“. Adding interaction to the sculpture is a magnet for visitors and might open a new chapter in snow carving. “Be one” is the worldwide first interactive snow sculpture and we are happy that Whitehorse gave us the opportunity for this. Let’s see if this innovative combination inspires others to do something similar in the future.

Watch this nice documentary from aptn, a Canadian News Channel

We are very proud to tell that we won 3rd place at the Whitehorse Snow Sculpting Challenge 2016. There were very strong competitors. 2nd place goes to Alaska. 1st place to Team Yukon.