China's Ice and Snow World 2007

R Todd King once again visited the annual Ice and Snow World, a beautiful winter event in Harbin, China. Stunningly huge and complex ice architecture -- pagodas, towers, churches, a massive Buddha, even a restaurant -- is all illuminated from within. Very, er, cool. Link (Thanks, Jim Leftwich!)

Previously on BB:
• China's beautiful ice and snow festival 2005 Link

[#1 posted by Antinous / Moderator, January 14, 2008 12:48 PM]

That's as good as a dozen unicorn chasers.

[#2 posted by w000t, January 14, 2008 1:15 PM]

This made me think of the Sapporo Snow Festival:

http://www.snowfes.com/english/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo_Snow_Festival

It's Feb 5 - 11 this year.

[#3 posted by Jeff, January 14, 2008 1:52 PM]

It won't glow like that for long. I give it an hour before the air polution coats the whole thing with a black slime.

[#4 posted by bricology, January 14, 2008 3:36 PM]

W000T -- it reminds you of the Sapporo because it's a rip-off of the Sapporo, which has gone on since before WWII.

It really is shameless how the Chinese are determined to copy everyone else. It's a rip-off culture, on every level.

http://gemssty.com/2006/10/29/top-10-copycat-cars/

[#5 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, January 14, 2008 4:36 PM]

The Chinese borrow from everyone. Other cultures have borrowed a hell of a lot from the Chinese.

Jeff, have you got your grumpy boots on today?

[#6 posted by Avram / Moderator, January 14, 2008 5:17 PM]

As you know, Teresa, the Chinese were blogging with Movable Type back in the 11th century.

[#7 posted by Jack, January 14, 2008 6:26 PM]

@ #4 POSTED BY BRICOLOG:
It really is shameless how the Chinese are determined to copy everyone else. It's a rip-off culture, on every level.
Japanese culture has copied tons of things from the Chinese and others. For example: Kanji.

On-topic, this is amazing and looks like a first-person shooter level come to life. Less the shooter, plus the cool imagery.

[#8 posted by fuguru, January 14, 2008 8:22 PM]

Great pictures, but this is actually last year's festival. The 2008 festival just opened two weeks ago. The main snow sculptures were 'The differences between French and Chinese Customs' themed this year, not Canada.

The main snow sculpture was still probably 30 meters tall and longer than I could accurately guess. Plus an entire snow village.

The ice part was again a neon-encrusted playland of slippery ice with unsupervised children sliding underfoot.

[#9 posted by ♥, January 14, 2008 9:13 PM]

Now with 47% less benzene!

[#10 posted by Bazilisk, January 14, 2008 9:15 PM]

I want to gooOO!!!! PRETTY! Or Sapporo, that sounds cool too...