“Dancing with Cat” from the 2004 Ice Art Championships, by Vladimir Zhikhartsev and Vitaly Lednev, is featured in the extreme ice art video
updated 8/31/23
extreme ice art video with big ice from Alaska & Germany
From pics at big ice events in Fairbanks and Lübeck, Germany, I’ve assembled a slideshow-style extreme ice art video. If you’ve perused the site, then some of the sculptures will be familiar to you and others will not. Either way, take a look. If your computer won’t show the video, then go to YouTube and see it there. While you’re there you can also assign it a star rating if you like it (or even if you don’t).
I did sneak myself and a couple of my sculptures in there. And to be fair, these were some of the more extreme pieces I’ve ever worked on. Not the biggest though; strangely, I elected not to include one of the biggest and most extreme pieces I’ve ever worked on, even though it was right there for the picking 🤷♂️
My sculptures and I show up in my extreme ice art video just before the halfway point. You’ll see a large angel with the trumpet and then me, standing next to a big Moses sculpture. I did both of those in Lübeck, Germany at a large indoor ice display run by inaxi.
The rest of the sculptures feature some of the best ice sculptors I’ve ever been around, including sculptures from Junichi Nakamura, Shinichi Sawamura, Steve and Heather Brice, Vitaly Lednev, and Vladimir Zhikhartsev. The piece by Vladimir and Vitaly, “Dancing with Cat,” has always been one of my favorite ice sculptures. Like many of the sculptures here, it was at the World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks.
Interestingly, while I didn’t include the sculpture that I worked on with Junichi and Shinichi, I did include the sculpture that beat us at the 2004 World Ice Art Championships. It was an elaborate dragon boat created by a Chinese team. You’ll see it near the end. I made this extreme ice art video years ago (I’m updating this post in August of ’23) and I’m wondering about some of the selections I made, lol. Not that the ones that I chose weren’t great, just that I didn’t include some other obvious choices.
links and stuff
You can see more of Junichi’s ice sculptures in his gallery. I’ll be restoring Steve and Heather Brice’s gallery at a later date also. I also have more videos on the site on the not-so-oddly named ice sculpture video page.
