Freezing Man

[mattbell]

Portland was inundated with massive amounts of snow today.  The normally busy city was far emptier than usual, leaving us with an enormous landscape of urban infrastructure to play in.  After going downtown and finding that nearly all the major stores were closed, we decided to engage in our own entertainment by creating random quick art out of the snow. 



Staircases make a nice blank canvas:



Lights at the foot of the walkway let us make snow jack-o-lanterns:





Traffic cones make for premade snowcones:





The shelter structure in the center of Pioneer Square collapsed under the weight of the snow, leaving a tangled mess of insufficiently strong metal and canvas.  I'm thinking to myself... so I'm in this harsh environment with white dust on the ground and in the air, working hard to practice self-reliance, making art everywhere, looking at collapsed temporary camp structures, talking with people who are so bundled up you can barely recognize them... this all seems so familiar!

Oh, I think I've got it:

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Yeah, that's it.

Comments

[mary-wroth.livejournal.com]

I like the traffic cone snow cone THINGS. :)

PRETTY!

I wish we had gotten that much snow here.

[flamingnerd.livejournal.com]

:) that's some great impromptu art. The stop sign is my favourite.

[serolynne.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[djdigit.livejournal.com]

That's awesome and really clever! I particularly like the snow jack-o-lanterns :)

[neoteny.livejournal.com]

Clearly, it's Burning Man every day of the year... Nicely done! :)

[pyrokitten-mew.livejournal.com]

judging from your photos, i think we would make good travel partners. i suspect we like similar kinds of stuff.

[cortneyofeden.livejournal.com]

That looks like so much fun! Well done!

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

thanks!