There are still two weekends of the Art Shanty Projects left and I swear it’s not that cold. Now in its fifth year, ASP brings together a community of artists to build and inhabit themed fishing shanties on Medicine Lake in Plymouth.
This year two co-conspirators and I created Medicine Lake Fisheries, a two-story shanty with an open air deck and a fishing tent on the second story. We’ve been fishing from the second story and admiring the view (see Justin Heideman’s shot above) for the past month. Andy Sturdevant, of the MOWSAR Shanty, has a thorough rundown of 2008’s shanties, but here are some of my favorite firsts from this year:
1. Catching a fish from a frozen lake.
Medicine Lake Fisheries is strictly a catch and release operation.
2. A Taiko-drumming groundhog wedding.
Last Saturday, February 2, Duane Tougas and Kat Corrigan were wed on the top of Medicine Lake Fisheries. Their wedding party consisted of 3 groundhogs and one mouse.
Also check out the Snap Shot Shanty’s photo blog- where they post the images they capture in their on-ice portrait studio.
I’ll be heading out there Saturday. Can’t wait!
Comment by Aaron — 2/7/2008 @ 4:13 pm
Thanks for the post!
Bill
Comment by Bill — 2/8/2008 @ 4:16 pm
I had no idea what this was but I went for the bike race and loved it for everything else as well.
Posted a bunch of pics here for anyone interested:
http://beautifulbokeh.typepad.com/beautiful_bokeh/2008/02/b-ice-cycle-rac.html
Comment by chris wiggins — 2/8/2008 @ 7:12 pm
go MLF!
you guys rock. I clean fish you know. in case you are ever catch and eat.
Peter
Comment by Pht — 2/8/2008 @ 11:39 pm
thanks for the post!
(except it truly is THAT cold this weekend!)
we just posted some beautiful polaroids© (r.i.p.) on the snapshot blog!
thanks for all the enthusiasm, folks!
Comment by terese elhard — 2/9/2008 @ 9:42 pm