Oh Man - Janet would have LOVED this!

[wendyzski]

- A Canadian artist will be painting with Zamboni and blow torch this winter as he brings a 95-foot long "Popsicle" to Millennium Park.

As part of the Chicago winter festival, Gordon Halloran has been commissioned to paint and sculpt a 95-foot long colored ice wall to reflect in the bean, as well as a flat painting of the Loop on the Millennium Park Ice Rink along Michigan Avenue.
Halloran's art exhibit is set to stand even if February is warm, the artist says. A "Lego system" of aluminum plates back-up the ice and when the system is turned it can create a su-zero temperature in minutes, thus preserving the exhibit if warm temperatures arrive.

And should frost dull the color -- Halloran will apply a blowtorch to gloss up the surface he's preemptively calling the Popsicle which opens February 1st in Millennium Park.

Comments

[ashtalet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she definitely would have. She'd have gotten out the Yaktrax, and we'd have wandered down regardless of what the weather turned out to be.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

You get a giant popsicle, and we got a rusted piece of swiss cheese...