Thursday, January 22, 2009

Coolest newsdesk ever?

Eastern Michigan's Channel 5 is doing something different to celebrate their area's snow-sculpting competition. They had a newsdesk and set made completely out of snow! Here's an excerpt from the article at WNEM.com:

An actual made-to-scale anchor desk carved in snow? It’s true. A seven-member crew from Mid-Michigan has been working since Monday constructing the frozen WNEM TV5 furniture piece for the Annual Zehnder’s Snowfest in Frankenmuth. Sculptor Sam Licavoli II said it took the team roughly 70 hours to sculpt the 10 feet tall by 20 feet long by 10 feet deep block of snow.

Click here to see video from their morning show. Maybe we can do this for our snow sculpting competition next year!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

And now here's the weather with shivering Pete!

Garrett said...

Why again was our snow sculpting competition cancelled this year? I mean it isnt for a lack of snow I dont think which is the normal excuse.

tony said...

Actually our snow sculpting isnt cancelled, it was just postponed for one week because of last weeks frigid temps. They said the ice machines do not work properly when it is frigid. The sculpting is january 28th-31st I believe.