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Wadsworth Hall, Michigan Tech!
Hell Yeah!!! You can see my window there from my first year there!!
Believe it, Jason. That is for real. Michigan Tech’s Winter Carnival (Houghton, MI) has plenty of examples of just this kind of sculpture. Walk a block west of this sculpture and you’ll likely find the TKE frat house with an example standing three stories tall.
damn Chris thanks for clearing that up… still pretty hard to believe but ill take ur word for it
Take my word too, i go to Michigan Tech
TKE statue like a boss.
i agree, i think its definitely foam cuz it duznt look like cgi at all. but ur right no way snow can stay together like that
I weep for our country
Google “Michigan tech winter carnival statues” … These spectacular pieces of hard work and creativity are certainly not photoshopped, made of foam or internally structured by anything except for snow.. In fact, this is a rather small, none spectacular snow statue compared to others… And to use anything besides snow and ice will disqualify the group from the competition…
Actually its all real snow and Ice. The tough part was cutting the arm of the monster out. we were afraid the weight of the snowman was going to cause it to break. luckily it didnt. That is nothing compared to some of the statues that get built though.
Calvin and Hobbes sculpture, if I’m not mistaken? Effin win.
This.
Was wondering who would be the first to notice that
it is indeed! bill watterson’s brother was my junior year lit teacher too! He had drawing all over his classroom done by him. super cool.
Yup!!
The branch thing might have some internal structure, but that monster is likely all snow. The amazing thing is because it’s in front of that dorm hall, that’s likely an overnighter statue– made over the course of one evening.
it was a month long but we only had consistently 5-6 people working on it. although about 12-14 people in total worked on it at one point or another. There also was alot of smaller things you dont see in the picture.
Calvin and Hobbes reference FTW
The snow is compacted and ironed. It’s super cold out, so it very quickly refreezes into something more ice-like, and much stronger than standard snow. Source: I used to live there.
ballsack its Calbin and hovves!!
photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels.
(totally tongue in cheek, with an axe to grind)
Not photoshopped. I can tell by experience.
not photoshopped because we actually built this, and there are tons of pics other people in our hall took.
Not photoshopped…I live here. I saw it.
Gotta love Calvin & Hobbes. xD
Could be snow held with metallic structures. The thin arms all have something inside them…
I find it interesting that people INSIST that there must be some sort of internal structure to these sculptures. I’m a student that Michigan Tech, the school where this was done a few years back. We build these for our annual Winter Carnival. Most of them are carved from giant blocks of snow that we cast in plywood boxes. The compacted snow is able to handle some pretty extreme stresses. There is no internal structure in any of these sculptures.
You are correct sir!!! While this one is cool, there are a lot of sculptures that are a lot more impressive than this one. Me, I was the guy with a flask walking around watching while everyone built for the all nighter.
No internal structure, no metal, wood or otherwise, just heavily compacted, iced, and formed snow and water. They are given a month to build it.
/Used to go there and built quite a few in my day. Still have frostbite memories.
Trust me, that is alllll snow. Although the.branch looks weird to me, but since it was an all-lighter, probably just dirty snow. Totally possible because I have built castles standing 2 stories, various creatures, and lots more on that same campus. Whoo winter carnival!!
Michigan Tech University, Houghton MI. This is Winter Carnival, 2006 and this was a One Nighter statue.
sorry chuck this was a month long one. I built it
Nothing but sheer snow; compacted, carved, frozen, but nonetheless snow. Winter Carnival FTW.
i live here and i have watched these go up and its true, they are all snow. they use plywood to make a frame, fill it with snow and water using a hose, so it becomes very hard and compact (since its always like 10 degrees up here) so yes, there is no internal structure. if you dont believe it, come up to houghton during winter carnival and see for yourselves.
I am so happy to see this on here! I worked on this very sculpture with my hall freshman year at Michigan Tech. The Winter Carnival theme that year (’06) was “Cartoon Art for the Young at Heart” so naturally what better inspiration than Calvin and Hobbes! As someone earlier suggested, there were in fact sticks inside of the fleeing snowman arms (we found out per Carnival snow sculpture rules that no “supporting material” could be visible so we had to pack snow around all the arms. It didn’t look the greatest, especially when it refroze and became more transparent. Not sure if they even allow internal support anwmore but it used to be VERY limited. I assure you though, there is absolutely no support in the monster itself besides good ol’ frozen H20!
This was actually a month-long statue, it includes more Calvin and Hobbes inspired goons that are don’t show up in the photo, including the cannon victim, snow goon, and snowman swimming from a shark… and of course Calvin and Hobbes themselves. Hope that answers some questions!
Ahh, I could have sworn it was an over nighter. But *ahem* I MAY have been drinking. Thanks for the info.
Welp… you beat me to it! Apparently your comment wasn’t approved when I started typing mine…
These are definitely very real. You can view photos from past Winter Carnival’s on their site at http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/.
Just to set the record straight:
This was a month-long statue built in the spring of 2006 by a freshman dorm hall called Knight House. Though it’s not shown in this picture, it was actually a compliation of multiple Calvin and Hobbes comics. The main monster, the snowman bodies, and the statues of Calvin and Hobbes (not pictured) are all completely snow with no internal structure, but due to time constraints, the arms of the snowman (including the close one that is on the top left of the picture) are actually tree branches covered in dirty snow. As long as there is nothing visible, internal sturcture of wood only (no bolts, screws, or nails) is completely legal, but in most cases completely unnecessary. I know this because I helped build this statue.
Yay MTU!
I can’t wait to see what sculptures there are this year… All the month-longs have already started, but they’re just giant blocks of snow now and haven’t been carved out. I helped build a statue last year, and it was so much fun!
To those who don’t think it’s actually snow… It is. You can’t say it’s not until you’ve lived up here for a winter. Houghton is COLD, people. If you don’t believe us, please come up to the UP to see for yourselves!
You’ll just be ambushed by engineers being awesome.
I remember this one! it was one of my favorites that year!
I’m so proud to see my 1st year statue still live and proudly being dis-plaid online! I was part of the Hall That made that statue. It was so much fun!
To all you MTU folks: First, awesome. Second, are there more pictures of that scene? As you might be able to tell from my icon, I’m a fan. I found this one but want more! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin_Snow_Sculpture.jpg
I have some on my hard drive, including a lot of us during construction. I’m sure Bob, Scott, Berek, and some of the other guys who worked on it will have a ton.
I made the Jello Letters for this “Tribute to Calvin and Hobbes”!!! SO much fun. Way to go Knight House 4th floor Wads.
Good post, Love it. Keep it up. I appreciate it.
Repetitive post, name links to spam, Hate it. Take it down. I don’t appreciate it.
I can’t believe people thought this wasn’t real…I miss walking the campus during carnival. I remember the huge Disney structure that was built while I went to school up there.
I look forward to seeing pictures of this years carnival.
This is an exact copy of a virtual Snow Monster scene that has been around in Second Life for a few years. Not sure if they were both inspired from the same Calvin & Hobbes sculpture or if this is a copy of the Second Life model.
well if its an exact copy, then we inspired it, cause we built this based straight off the comics.