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3-Minute Tour of the 2012 Art Shanty Projects

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:45 pm Thu, Feb 2, 2012

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[Video Link] Like a 20-below Burning Man on ice. Fun! It's taking place until February 5 atop Medicine Lake, Plymouth, Minnesota. Learn all about it here.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=527782500 Zoey Melf

Oh man, the Art Shanties are super fun! Here’s a link to some more video, which shows some of these Shanties in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjHQlvrP_Y&feature=youtu.be

Viva Minnesota! Viva la Boing!
http://twitter.com/iteeth Paul Schmelzer

Awesome! More on the project, including some big artspeaky words, here: http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/ice-land