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There was a program on BBC4 last night about The Snow Show. Basically, a group of architects and artists have converged on Lapland and built huge, well, 'collaborative installations' is how their website describes it, out of snow and ice. So many beautiful pieces, all of which will crack and change and melt and slowly fade away to nothingness.

It reminded me of a passage in William Horwood's The Stonor Eagles (which if you haven't read, you should) where the main character, an artist, sculpts an eagle and leaves it high on a cliff, whence it will inevitably fall - and soon - into the sea, totally self destructing as it does so.

Date: 2004-03-05 03:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aellia.livejournal.com
Saw it,Kirsten..it was strangely beautiful!
xx

Date: 2004-03-05 03:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cjwatson
I have to admit that the idea reminds me, more prosaically, of "Die Another Day".

Date: 2004-03-05 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
Which, of course, I have neither seen nor read. Sorry.

Date: 2004-03-05 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aellia.livejournal.com
Kirsen,for weeks I have been wonering what you are holding to your eyes in this icon!
Put me out of my misery?

Date: 2004-03-05 06:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
It's a camera.

Date: 2004-03-05 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icemachine.livejournal.com
The likelihood of seeing something that intelligent and interesting on any television over here is at, oh, zero percent. Time to open an eBay search for a satellite dish the size of Guildford. *sigh*

Date: 2004-03-05 07:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
I always thought the US had so much television, that it must have at least as many documentary channels and so on as we get. I guess I was wrong :(

Date: 2004-03-05 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icemachine.livejournal.com
Other than PBS (which is 50% old BBC sitcoms, 50% heavily-edited editions of Horizon posing as 'Nova') there's nothing but a void of infomericals, wrestling, Changing Rooms-style vapidity and news which reports something in Wyoming as a 'world event'.

It's increasingly difficult to find something worth watching. I don't even bother with BBC America anymore...it's just Changing Rooms and David Dickenson 24 x 7. Nasty.

*note to self; look at trimming channels from cable tv package*

Date: 2004-03-05 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
That's dreadful :(

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