furniture :: made from ice

Spring, where are you?! Just when I thought there was hope for some green and Spring, it snowed today. Then I happened across this cool (and I mean cool) furniture and snow doesn't seem so bad. Especially when you make furniture with it. Introducing Ice & Snow Furniture Raised From Lake Mendota...

This icy furniture was made by sustainable Artist/Designer Hongtao Zhou, a University of Wisconsin-Madison art student, who created it on and from frozen Lake Mendota near the UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace shoreline. Visitors partake in the fun stopping to take pictures, eat ice cream in snow bowls and try out the cold ice chairs. It makes what seems like an unbearably long winter seem a little JUST COOL!

music :: the coolest music you'll ever hear

Where else but in a land of ice and snow would an amazing concept like "ice music" come from?

All Ice Records is a Norwegian independent record company that was started in 2005. It's musicians / ice sculptors carve their instruments from blocks of ice they find lying around and then hold concerts at such events as Icefestival at Geilo, Norway.

The resonating sound is an interesting one - like hollow, haunting windchimes . Check out more about this interesting music in the video below that tells the story of the Geilo Ice Music Festival and the extraordinary artists that make it happen. In seven days ice is transformed into a stage and musical instruments are created: a guitar, didgeridoo, Norwegian horns, Brazilian Udus and Guiros. The festival culminates in an outdoor, mountaintop concert under the first full moon of the new year.

I don't know about you, but I'm off to put on a sweater. Its cold in here!
Ice music - its naturally JUST COOL.