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This is a mock up of the "sound shanty" by Matt Zaun and Sean Connaughty.
There will be music played inside and a mic dropped into the water broadcasting the sound of the lake. You will be able to come here and record as well as just play music.
This was built in thier back yard as a trial to work out construciton issues.

Noah Bremer SELFINTERVIEW H19.1

There is a winter here but it is not the one I am looking for. It is true I am here. On an island in the middle of the Pacific. It is very not winter here. If this is winter then what does summer mean. The wind has become my friend. I can recall a tumutlous relationship with the wind in other winter scenes. But here the wind is friend.
On the lake the wind will turn on me I know. It will rip and tear, drift and suck, drain and strain.
The heat will go with it. Wisked away to nowhere.
To those in the cold this can and must seem like the idea place. Well in ways it is. But I am looking to return to the other idea place. The place on the ice. Where the wind is foe and not friend where white has decimated green. Where the crunch under foot can tell the temp. Where one muct watch their step. To the place where alchemy exists.

Images from Last Year(click on image for slide show)

Last night it came through the phone lines. "like 9 inches of snow" "we shoveled, well I did." We are under a winter storm warning" The last one I mentioned to someone here and they thought that was funny. I said it would be like a hurricane warning here. They cocked their head and said "oh" then continued up the jungle covered mountain of lava rock. In some ways this snow is not the best for the ice underneath. It insulates the ice and retards it from forming. I have emailed Ted Stats at the University of Minnesota for some perspective on what is going on at the point where the ice is forming. This is something that remains and will remain the biggest factor in the project. It is the very ground we will be working and walking on. Whatever the condition it must be watched and noted. We can not always take for granted the condition. Last year we had some wild weather. At times there was water 6 inches deep on the surface of the ice. Huge ponds on top of the lake. It rained. The water patrol who will never tell you that it is "safe to do anything but gaze on the ice" said that people the 50 degree weather and the rain would not effect the public from driving their cars and trucks and snow mobiles and atvs and skis on the ice. I can not tell from here but I imagine that there are people out there with the 5 gallon buckets and holes hooking fish and thinking about how lucky they are to live in a place like this.

Jonas Lindberg, has offered up the use of his trailer.
I would like to post a review of his trailer. I has some experience with it. It was attached to my truck when we went to Chicago last spring.
All in all it is a very functional trailer. It has a flat bed. Not so flat that you could roll a marble on it. It was ruggedly flat. There were many marks in the floor where who knows what... well Joans might... were put on and tied down and relocated. Now there is a beaultiful random pattern contained with in the rectangle of the flat deck. The sides are detachable. which is handy. I had the sides on cause there were tall things in the load I was relocating.
I would make sure the tires are pumped up to the propper pressure. And check the light connection with your vehicle. These are not things wrong with the trailer they are just things one should do with safety in mind. Thank you Jonas.

Starting Fire With an Ice Lens

by Bob Gillis
Use clear lake or pond ice. To practice, boil water for 10 minutes to remove gas. Create a foil container 2" deep and freeze slowly. Or buy a clear block of ice. To make fire, the ice must be clear.
Shape the ice lens for fire making. First shave with a knife to get the rough shape of a lens.
You can also grind your ice fire lens on cement or a stone.
Finish shaping your ice fire lens by using the heat of your hand to melt the ice lens smooth.
The edge of your lens should look something like this.
Locate tinder that is completely dry and finely divided. With the sun at its highest in the sky hold your lens perpendicular to the sun and move it up and down to focus the brightest spot of light onto your tinder. Be careful to avoid dripping water onto your tinder. The tinder will first smoke and then ignite. Carefully add more tinder and very small sticks until a good fire is established.
E-mail your commits or questions to "Bob Gillis" at shelter@best.com

Questions Answered about making fire.

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