Well, we carved an “ice lake” that went into an ad for Foxtel. Close enough for me. Actually it was quite fascinating being behind the scenes of a TV studio watching the crew do their thing. Did you know that the walls don’t meet the floor at right-angles? Rather they curve to meet the floor smothly. I guess that’s so that you don’t get a sharp corner from shadows and it makes the background easier to fake. More on backgrounds...

The City to Surf is coming up again fast this year, I hope you’re all out training up for it! I actually ran it when I was 10 years old, you’re only young and foolish once. I tried long distance running in high school but eventually realised that I’m just not built for running. I like skiing and rock climbing but that’s a story for another day. Last year we were excited to produce an Oyster Bar and a 3d carving of a Running Man for one...

We get a lot of enquiries by people asking “what is an ice luge?” They’ve heard about it but they aren’t sure what it is or even how to pronounce it. The word comes from the same term as in winter sports – the one where they get on a sled and slide down an incredibly steep ice track with all sorts of crazy twists and turns in it, and whoever does it the fastest wins. They have singles, doubles, quad teams. You might remember...

It seems a bit odd to start off a blog about ice carving in Sydney with a brief story about a trip to Melbourne, but I guess that just reflects the diversity of the business we are in. Last month we had the opportunity to head down south to Melbourne to meet up with the ice carving professionals there. I lived in Melbourne for 9 months in the early nineties and I thought at the time that it had a more European feel than Sydney. I guess that...