{"id":485,"date":"2008-12-08T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=485"},"modified":"2015-12-27T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:45:34","slug":"ice-cold-and-blue-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2008\/12\/ice-cold-and-blue-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cold and Blue &#8212; Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme this week (not that every week has a theme, but the cold, winter-like weather has finally arrived) is &#8220;Ice Cold and Blue&#8221; &#8212; every other day featuring one of these three.<\/p>\n<p>This Ice Festival is an annual event in Harbin, Siberian region of Chinese Manchuria. Temperatures often do not exceed minus 40 degrees. It dates back to 1985 and many teams from around the world participate. Here are some of the incredible creations at this year&#8217;s event. <em>(Note: this came to me via an email, so I do not know who to give the original photo and informational credits to, but thank you. If it weren&#8217;t for the exceptional bitter cold, I would have liked to be there but prefer viewing from the warm comfort of home.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/icefestival.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-486\" title=\"Ice Festival in Harbin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/icefestival.jpg\" alt=\"Ice Festival in Harbin\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/icefestival.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/icefestival-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/ice-palace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-487\" title=\"ice-palace Ice Festival in Harbin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/ice-palace.jpg\" alt=\"ice-palace Ice Festival in Harbin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ice-palace.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ice-palace-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/ice-palace-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-488\" title=\"ice-palace-2 Harbin Ice Festival\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/ice-palace-2.jpg\" alt=\"ice-palace-2 Harbin Ice Festival\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ice-palace-2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ice-palace-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns2_icesculpture.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns_icesculpture.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490\" title=\"chineselanterns2_icesculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns2_icesculpture.jpg\" alt=\"chineselanterns2_icesculpture\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns2_icesculpture.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns2_icesculpture-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-489\" title=\"chineselanterns_icesculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns_icesculpture.jpg\" alt=\"chineselanterns_icesculpture\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns_icesculpture.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chineselanterns_icesculpture-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/bear-ice-sculpture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-498\" title=\"bear-ice-sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/bear-ice-sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"bear-ice-sculpture\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/bear-ice-sculpture.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/bear-ice-sculpture-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At night the site turns into a neon-lit winter wonderland as if it were translucent Bright-Light Legos. There is even a Great Wall slide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/harbin-at-night.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-491\" title=\"harbin-at-night\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/harbin-at-night.jpg\" alt=\"harbin-at-night\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/harbin-at-night.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/harbin-at-night-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/greatwall_ice-sculpture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-492 aligncenter\" title=\"greatwall_ice-sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/greatwall_ice-sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"greatwall_ice-sculpture\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/greatwall_ice-sculpture.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/greatwall_ice-sculpture-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/harbin-ice-and-snow-world.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"harbin-ice-and-snow-world\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/harbin-ice-and-snow-world.jpg\" alt=\"harbin-ice-and-snow-world\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/harbin-ice-and-snow-world.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/harbin-ice-and-snow-world-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can&#8217;t even imagine the amount of patience required to complete this. Little patience, particularly as I get older, and Raynauds would easily prevented me from even trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme this week (not that every week has a theme, but the cold, winter-like weather has finally arrived) is &#8220;Ice Cold and Blue&#8221; &#8212; every other day featuring one of these three. This Ice Festival is an annual event in Harbin, Siberian region of Chinese Manchuria. Temperatures often do not exceed minus 40 degrees. It dates back to 1985 and many teams from around the world participate. Here are some of the incredible creations at this year&#8217;s event. (Note: this came to me via an email, so I do not know who to give the original photo and informational credits to, but thank you. If it weren&#8217;t for the exceptional bitter cold, I would have liked to be there but prefer viewing from the warm comfort of home.) At night the site turns into a neon-lit winter wonderland as if it were translucent Bright-Light Legos. There is even a Great Wall slide. I can&#8217;t even imagine the amount of patience required to complete this. Little patience, particularly as I get older, and Raynauds would easily prevented me from even trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,100],"tags":[372,374,373],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-sculpture","tag-harbin-ice-festival","tag-ice-sculpture","tag-siberia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ice Cold and Blue -- Ice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ice Cold and Blue -- Ice sculpture on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2008\/12\/ice-cold-and-blue-ice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ice Cold and Blue -- Ice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ice Cold and Blue -- Ice sculpture on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2008\/12\/ice-cold-and-blue-ice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-12-08T13:11:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-28T02:45:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/icefestival.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2008\\\/12\\\/ice-cold-and-blue-ice\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2008\\\/12\\\/ice-cold-and-blue-ice\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Ice Cold and Blue &#8212; 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