How-To: Violet Ice Cubes
Make your springtime cocktails extra special with beautiful violet ice cubes!
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Immediately Evaporating Argon Ice
Watch a video showing how quickly the chemical element Argon (Ar, 18) turns from solid to gas, in this experiment conducted by Andrew Marmery from The Royal Institution in London.
Shout Out Louds Release Record Made of Ice
Swedish band Shout Out Louds have released a recorded made of ice!
8-bit Evaporation
Collaborative artist duo The O.H.N.O. Twins produced this clever recreation of a Super Mario Bros cloud from thousands of colored ice cubes and documented it as it melted.
How-To: Fancy Ice Cubes
Give your cold summertime drinks an extra boost with this fancy ice cubes tutorial from Emma at A Beautiful Mess! As the summer heats up around here we are looking for ways to dress up our iced beverages. Here are three fun ideas for making your own fancy ices cubes; along with serving suggestions. It’s […]
Ice Candles for the Darkest Season
Electric light feels very different from candle light. Even the best electric lights seem frozen in place, or blink and move awkwardly.
I decided this year that I wanted to do something with candles again – something safely outdoors, far from the children and the house, but something beautiful. That brought me back to ice lanterns, something I’d talked about doing years ago.
How-To: Cast a solid ice beer caddy
Rob Cockerham–who has previously brought us spring shoes, a sweet Doc Ock costume, and How Much is Inside?, among other delights–wanted to serve a six-pack out of a solid block of ice. The block had to be cast with openings that would hold the bottles tightly but still let them slip loose when somebody wanted one. It took a bit of trial and error, but he eventually got the process figured out. The whole story is here. Rob hasn’t tried it yet, but he thinks, as I do, that one of these will probably float in a swimming pool fully loaded. Nice work, Rob! [via Boing Boing]
