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The whole snow hottel is made from 70 tones of ice carved from a lake with 4 plus foot long chains saws!! It is taken down and melts away in the spring.

The construction is a huge balloon inflated which is the correct size for each room, then ice blocks are laid round and over it to create an igloo, then the balloon is deflated and finishing filling of any gaps in the ice blocks plus ventilation hole bored in each room. Then the ice carving team comes in and creates the magic with amazing detail of carvings.

These then have coloured LED lights appropriate to the carving. Some are really stunning like a fireplace glowing red looking warm but not warm at all.

Never experienced the sparkling in the air, any thing liquid was frozen. Pity didn't get the kettle of hot water and throw that up in the air to freeze.

Create Joy by JW Vraets

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In a window of sunshine during a break from the overnight rain which is supposed to start up again and continue for the rest of the day, I took a wander around downtown Grimsby, Ontario this morning to see what Spring colours are now showing up. After a prolonged and nasty winter, everything seems to be running about 2 weeks behind the usual blooming periods. But it seems that one of the local businesses located on the corner of Main and Ontario Streets has taken matters in its own hands and adopted a spring-like pastel colour theme on its side wall. That, combined with the message on its window, ‘Create Joy’, simply said Spring. - JW

Date Taken: 2018-05-04

Tech Details:

Taken using a hand-held Olympus E-3 fitted with a Olympus Digital Zuiko 12-60mm f:2.8-4 lense set to 12mm (approx 24mm equiv in classic 35mm film terms), ISO100, Auto WB, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, 1/500 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Olympus RAW/ORF source file: scale image to 9000 px wide, level image and also correct both perspective and barrel distortion, set exposure adjustment to approx 1 stop brighter than as-shot, increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase vibrance, enable Shadows/highlights and recover highlights (but leave shadows alone), increase lack level slightly, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the levels tool Auto Adjust to set a good base overall tonality, duplicate the image to a new layer above the original layer and add a black/transparent layer mask, using a soft-edged brush paint the window area in white on the layer mask, adjust the top layer image area using the tone curve tool to get a clean white in the window lettering, create new working layer from visible results, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4500, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.

Insomnia Creates Dolls by Aleksandra Boduch

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Insomnia Creates Dolls, Bezia Szara, Aleksandra Boduch, bjd doll, handmade doll

'Mother' Nature by Adrian Keeley

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Created with Leonardo.Ai

Pic by Adrian

20161210-Virtaa laajaojassa-Edit.jpg by Anssi Takala

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Created with GIMP

Sacred Perception by edie q

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Created with Bryce

create new//destroy old. by Megan Hill

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this is equal parts my scanner sucks, this was too big for my scanner, and this is my first mixed media collage.

things used to make this:

film filter test strip, negatives, paper clips, staples, rubber bands, a ticket that i never used for a the dangerous summer show because i had an extra, AP magazine, an urban outfitters catalogue, transworld skateboarding magazine, watercolors, teen vogue, sharpies, sequins, double sided tape, tape, a stride wrapper, and a pen.

lyrics: sleepyhead by passion pit, that green gentleman (things have changed) by panic at the disco.

quotes: "we are here to laugh at the odds, and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us." -charles bukowski, and "create new, destroy old." -a snakes and suits shirt.

i was tagged!

1. i'm sorry my uploads have been so sporadic lately, and that my photos are going downhill. and i'm deeply sorry i haven't been a good contact.

2. next year is senior year, thank god. it needs to be college now. get me out of high school.

3. wantwantwantwantwant a 35mm f/1.8 and 80mm f/1.8 SO BAD.

4. i. fucking. hate. chemistry. i study so hard and i'm still not doing to well. gahhhh.

5. my first day of work this year is may 1. yahoooooo. i've actually sort of missed you, summer job.

6. haven't shot a show since 2/18. miss it. need to soon.

7. 43 days until i see my chemical romance. the last time i was this excited for a show was blink-182, almost 2 years ago.

8. i should go to sleep.

9. i love coffee way too much.

10. a while ago in a 10 facts post, i said i really wanted to meet pete wentz, but that'll never happen. well, on sunday, it happened.

14 tagged at random.

Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve by Les

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Created in 2002 when the Cardiff Bay barrage was completed, the Wetlands Reserve is already a great centre for wildlife.

Create sexy cyborg by Dainis

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In this photoshop tutorial we will use some photo manipulation techniques to create sexy robot girl. We will use some filters, blending mods and textures.

Read Sexy cyborg photoshop tutorial

Wishing by Shanna

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Created for digital mania. Artist inspiration: Loui Jover

Texture: Evelyn Flint.

create. by Jenni Simmons

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dreams of genevieve.

Premade Mini Album - for a babygirl by Ilil Ziv

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Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Create by Sasha Segade