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- gadgetuk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+73I just love the womans comment just after it collapses...
"Oh, it had more weight on that side".
Well GREAT! Thanks very much for your helpful input. It's a teeny bit late but hey, I'm sure it'll be useful in the future. *slap* - johnvbrennan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50What makes it really painful is that
a) it collapses so spectacularly
b) it happens when he cuts away the very last upright prop/support
Class eh! - time2go, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48NNNaaA...OoooowWW...Aaaaa...UuuuuuhhhHH....oooooOOOooo....
–I've never heard so many hearts being crushed at the same time. Atleast the guy didn't get hurt though...thank God. - Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49Ah.. that's got to suck..
- suomi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41I suspect that maybe of cold comfort.
- Wookie92, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36i truly feel sorry for the guy
- LizardOfOz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Why does everyone on the internet *always* think everything is staged?
- ScottAG, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Why didn't he just leave the pillars there? It looked fine to me... Sometimes artists just don't know when enough is enough.
- lunghd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Any lawyer could have warned him that the minute you stop supporting large, frigid women trouble will result. Nice sculpture though.
- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -13/+42***** hilarious!
At-least this way his sculpture will live on over the Internet as people re-live its final moments on blogs around the world. Otherwise only a handful of people in some town would have ever seen it anyway. - Bluntzilla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31That's what my first thought was,
the guy is lucky that big ass chunk didn't land on him or it would've been a whole different video... - Skyfire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28That, my friend, is a lot of information that I didn't want to know.
- skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27"Which brings me to my next point, why even bother? I mean, sure, it turns out beautiful, but if it's doomed to be destroyed from the very beginning, why not sculpt something more... Lasting?"
Sort of a metaphor for life, eh? Fragile yet beautiful and doomed to destruction from the beginning. - ericcc, on 10/12/2007, -13/+38@ cheneythedick
Please stop replying to the first post just to get your post near the top damnit. If your post doesnt follow up on something previously said it isn't a reply. - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24You could get them. They would just melt a tad faster.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30Damn, that's a shame. Poor guy. It looked really impressive before that happened.
- suomi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30In mmmooo post, joke makes no sense.
- joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20So sad, we don't get those in Australia very often :( it is such a pitty.
- apu95, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14If it was an accident, I'm glad the guy took it with so much class. He just brushed it off and waved to the public :).
- nuvem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Where the heck have you guys been? You don't watch the Simpsons? Family Guy? King of the Hill? Futurama?
Begin your edumacation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff - returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Cause anything but the best is just crap.
- TheCheeta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13*rimshot*
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Um, why does a simple expression of empathy for the artist, and of praise for his work before the disaster happened, get dugg down? I mean, really. Why?
- tehJR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Those people watching were just heartbroken too.
- xenoputtss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11it was very impressive looking before teh pillars were removed, and im sure thinking that he is thinking the same thing. But it would of been hugely impressive without those pillars.
I wonder if someone could photoshop that last scene before the sculpture broke, to remove the pillar. - umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Large ice sculputres are made of many blocks of ice. The 'fracture' you see is where two such blocks join.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I liked the spectators at the end. "It was a beautiful piece!" - that's gonna make him feel better.
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12@lizardofoz
Because many of them are. This one, however, looks genuine. - atsidor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Phenomenal ice sculpting. Bad engineering.
- sketchstudios, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7hypedrome
um dude, I DID listen to the audio, very carefully in fact and the fact is, because it broke at the end, that is what went wrong. Even right after a lady says "OOH Noo... What a way to mess up!"
come on man, did YOU even listen to the audio? - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Isn't it strange the way that some articles on Digg seem to have a mass digg-down in the comments, such as this one? And yet, those that have been dugg down have deserved it.
As for the video, I actually jumped slightly when it broke. I thought that guy was underneath and even moreso, when I didn't see any movement until a few seconds later. While I'm sure he creates many of these throughout the year and he's very talented, he must have worked for at least the best part of a day (or more) creating this and to have it break right before your eyes and at the very last moment must instill a little bit of sadness in the artist. - MehYam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's a double blessing. His sculpture is getting a lot more fame and longevity because it collapsed. And again, dude should be thankful he wasn't under the giant ice head when it decided to break off.
I watched it muted, but the way he walks away speaks volumes. Classic. - Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4True, i was expecting it just to tip over or something, not explode like it did. That was awsome, too bad for the guy tho.
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Link to the good part (unashamedly replying to first comment):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3178919661538567765#01m45s - elitebox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's what happens when you don't have engineers on the job.
- xenoputtss, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I guess you don't know anything about ice or even ice structures.
This doesn't look staged at all. He is working with an unflexible medium that has a specific time frame of existance. Cracks appear in ice constantly. He probably cut something a little to thin, and the weight settled, makeing some cracks in the nice (he probably patched those cracks with water or something afterwards) - guregu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3MSNBC read your comment on the air while covering this story. I think the show is called, "The Most."
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5True, I'm aware of that, and it annoys me when I see that type of comment in, say, a political thread that is discussing a complex issue, or a technical thread in which there is much more that could be said about the subject rather than a simplistic "cool!" or whatever.
But in this particular case, there isn't really much further that I (and I would guess, you) could take the conversation.
Ah well, anyway, it's not really a huge deal. - dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Look at it this way... now thousands of us got to see what the sculpture looked like because of its dramatic collapse. We probaly would have otherwise payed no attention to it.
Maybe this has turned out to be the greatest number of people to see any single one of this artist's sculptures! - WoahPuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah, i remember seeing this a while back and when everyone started clapping, i thought they were clapping because it fell in really awesome way...kinda like "whoa! that was sweet...but too bad"
nice icon... - radial, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3that was a beautiful sculpture
- rejectpenguin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Its funny how the audience is so shocked that many of them begin to clap after witnessing a masterpiece being destroyed.
- thoand, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That sucked
"the guy is lucky that big ass chunk didn't land on him or it would've been a whole different video..."
It would also been another video if the guy had tried walking silently into the woods - frogpelt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why didn't he just leave the supports?
- sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is too!
Ok... not really. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that has to suck, russian's seem very amused by the removal of supports. and much less so by a massive peice of ice breaking apart.
but at least they have vodka
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http://www.i-o-n.blogspot.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Unlucky, it looked prety amazing aswell. It wudda melted by morning anyways :P
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4It's widely accepted on Digg that if your comments are simply "Cool", "Oh my god!", "What a shame" or any other such obvious remarks that your digg for the article is enough to get these words across without making a comment. That's why you got dugg down.
- danvuquoc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Guess it's better it broke now rather than when some kid goes up to lick it later :)
- baronvonrolo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2That's just straight up brilliant.
It's the totality of the destruction that makes it so funny, every single part of it was destroyed, it wasn't at all salvageable. Shame, but it wasn't ever going to last -
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