Tim Linhart sculpts instruments made entirely from ice except for the strings and a few small metals and wood parts. Linhart, who grew up in New Mexico and is a stone sculptor in warm months, creates his ice instruments in his garden in Sweden. It takes him about six weeks to create enough ice instruments, called ICEstruments, for a frozen orchestra.
Linhart sculpts icy violins, violas, cellos, and basses for musicians to play beautiful, classical music. He creates ice banjos for country and bluegrass sounds, and ice guitars and giant “bubble drums” for the sounds of rock-’n’-roll. He even sculpts xylophones made of ice, which he sets on bicycle inner tubes to produce amazing sounds!
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Fruity Valentine Nachos
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IT STUCK TO the bar of soap in the bathtub, so you didn’t want to wash with it.
Kitty Cleanup
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Odor-able Valentine
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The War of the Noses
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Doodlebug & Dandelion
Very Skunky Valentine
The Sacrifice of the Rainbow Bird
A Tale from the Lenni Lenape
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WHISKEY TONES
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CAMILLA LÄCKBERG
Before Camilla Läckberg’s debut novel was published, the Swedish author devised an ambitious, yet workable marketing plan. Among other things, she would visit, if possible, every bookstore in the country to do book events, sign stock and meet and greet as many booksellers and readers as she could.
Werewolf Whereabouts
You are alone in the woods at night. A snarl sounds from deep within the trees. Your pulse races as you look behind you. Two golden eyes meet yours, as the full Moon casts light on a hairy half-man half-animal shape lurching toward you. What do you do?
let there be Sunlight
ENTOMBED GUITARIST UFFE CEDERLUND AND SUNLIGHT STUDIOS’ RECORDING WIZARD TOMAS SKOGSBERG LOOK BACK ON THE BIRTH OF SWEDISH DEATH METAL AND THE SUNLIGHT SOUND