Talk to a Dying Glacier.

• fluff
  June 12th, 2007 at 7:07 am

  Has anyone tried this yet? I really would like to try this, but have not that much money to spend on a long distance call:(

• Blacknimbus
  June 12th, 2007 at 7:13 am

  Open up your freezer and have a little conversation with the trays. It’s as silly and will save you a few bucks.

• ted
  June 12th, 2007 at 7:31 am

  You have to take the trays out first, or the ice won’t be dying.

• Paul
  June 12th, 2007 at 8:09 am

  If you really want to make the ice cubes talk, you can threaten them with a butane lighter or a blowtorch. It’s not pretty, but it works.

  Also, I have opened up an email and Paypal account for a bag of frozen peas which I plan on defrosting later today. If sparemoney@sillyass.net receives at least $200.00 USD by 3:00 PM EST today, I will leave the bag of peas in the freezer for another year.

• Ahmik
  June 12th, 2007 at 9:16 am

  It was busy when I called. Will keep trying.

• Anita
  June 12th, 2007 at 9:40 am

  Ahmik - let us know what it says!

• Paul
  June 12th, 2007 at 11:15 am

  It was probably on the internet…will have to wait until it logs off…

• ch1ll3v
  June 12th, 2007 at 11:22 am

  I called the glacier and it asked me if I was interested in a lucrative money making opportunity. I quickly hung up.

• Ali S.
  June 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

  This is just a bit ridiculous don’t you think? Then again it does in a sense make one aware of the disappearance of our glaciers.

• kid icarus
  June 12th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

  silly, yes….but strangely cathartic in a weird sense…..not that i’ve called, but i can imagine calling and saying “i’m sorry.”

• Chris
  June 12th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

  I called and I said, “see you in my Diet Coke in a few years”…

• Tim Mosley
  June 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

  I tried talking to it, but it seemed so cold and distant and unresponsive…….

• Solo
  June 12th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

  Wow, before the Internet this kind of pointless stunt would be called stupid. Now it’s “art”.

  Funny comments though, and Paul, please, please someone thinks of the frozen peas!

• Alex
  June 12th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

  You can ask the iceberg if it has any skeleton in its closet.

• Denita TwoDragons
  June 12th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

  I think I’ll just save on my long-distance bill, and just try talking to my ex-husband instead. I’d get the same frosty reception, and probably the cold shoulder as well.

  –TwoDragons

• Scientist
  June 12th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

  You can hear what it sounds like at this link. They called it and recorded 60 seconds of it

  LINK: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=8659197#8659197

• bobby
  June 12th, 2007 at 5:06 pm

  Dying or melting???

• cybele
  June 12th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

  Scientist - thanks for the link!

  I figured it sounded like a cross between a babbling brook and having your house jacked up. Turns it out it’s pretty much the former.

• Cowards
  June 12th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

  Got through. It sounded too weird. Got scared. Hung up.

  A good night, I must say.

• Jim
  June 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

  Isn’t there a better use out there for a waterproof mobile phone? How bout in a life raft?…what a waste of time…

• Ali S.
  June 12th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

  @ Tim Mosley:

  That had to the funniest thing I’ve read today.

  It’s ok buddy…perhaps in the future we will be able to get you through to a Volcano who need a good talking too.

  :p

• Tinderbox
  June 13th, 2007 at 1:02 am

  Here’s a newsflash: glaciers are not alive!

• refiseb
  June 14th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

  All your comments are funny but I thought art was about making people think about something different -has got you all talking, would you have been saying so much if this artist had hung a ‘painting’ at her final year show at Slade - great imagination well done katie

• kely
  August 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

  Hi our little brothers.2

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