Comments on: Rainbow-colored igloo

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:19:00 +0000

It looks like it needs two sleeping bags zipped together for the occupants, and a nice strong door for some privacy

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:18:00 +0000

Similar to have a ‘boyfriend in New Zealand’?

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:18:00 +0000

nitpic: “an engineer student”

engineering surely?

By: saint_al

saint_al — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:10:00 +0000

I’m picturing one made of frozen Kool-Aid just for flavoring fun- a Popsicle effect.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:52:00 +0000

Thanks for introducing me to a cool site and destroying any productivity for the afternoon!

By: Aargh-a-Knot

Aargh-a-Knot — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:53:00 +0000

Wait. I don’t remember making all these yellow ones…

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:37:00 +0000

Now do a Tiffany Lamp pattern

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:49:00 +0000

Next year, maybe. Icegloo 2.0.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:38:00 +0000

Lovely.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:55:00 +0000

Looks like a snow cave to me.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

It’s not really an igloo unless you were wearing caribou skin clothes and sealskin boots while you were building it. And if your pana was made by peeing a line in the snow.
Details here:

http://www.nfb.ca/film/how_to_build_an_igloo/

/The igloo in the photo is built from a series of rings, whereas an igloo is made from a continuous spiral of snow blocks.

//That coloured igloo is cool though.

///I once made a polar bear out of snow and ice for a girlfriend. One of these days, I’ll have to digitize the photo.

By: semiotix

semiotix — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:53:00 +0000

Yeah, but the igloo project seems to have been cleverly designed to sabotage the relationship, so we’ll see.

“Tee hee! My mom got us the stuff to make a cool igloo in the back, and when you’re done building it, we can sneak in there for sexytime!”

• • • 48 HOURS LATER • • •

“Aren’t you done building that goddamn thing yet?”
“Almost, but I can’t feel my genitalia. I don’t understand, it’s supposed to be warmer than this!”

Pretty crafty, guy’s Canadian girlfriend’s mom!

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:28:00 +0000

For some reason I’m expecting to see a nerdier version of this. Multi-colored LEDs embedded in the ice blocks connected to an Arduino controller synced to a laptop all while choreographed to Trans Siberian Orchestra…

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:24:00 +0000

That is not an igloo. That’s a house built of ice. This is an igloo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Igloo.jpg

By: jimmyungreek

jimmyungreek — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:29:00 +0000

cool! really!

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:21:00 +0000

are those milk cartons?

I enjoyed this retro “how to”:
http://www.nfb.ca/film/how_to_build_an_igloo/

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:21:00 +0000

Came here to say this! I hope they insulated the inside with snow, eh.

By: squeeziecat

squeeziecat — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:12:00 +0000

true – and now I’m imagining a snow igloo with stained-ice windows!

By: Another Kevin

Another Kevin — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:03:00 +0000

An igloo out of ICE? Brrrrr. They have to be built of snow to be effective. Ice is a very poor thermal insulator; snow is a fairly good one. Still, a cool project. (In more ways than one.)

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:45:00 +0000

Wow, a “girlfriend in Canada” who actually exists!

By: Mike Chewie Bennett

Mike Chewie Bennett — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:11:00 +0000

cockblocked by an igloo