Last year I was able to walk on the base of the Picasso sculpture in the snow. Only at the end did I slip a little. (Blog post, video)
This morning a fresh blanket of snow covered Chicago, including the iconic statue by Pablo Picasso.
I walked up to the Picasso to admire the beauty of how the snow falls on the steel base. I couldn’t resist trying to walk on the snow, up the sloping base.
Wow, was it ever slippery! My very first step was a wipeout.
My six-year-old iPhone totally fell into the snow on the Picasso. I picked it up, and brushed the snow off the camera, thinking, “well, this phone had a good life. If it dies now, this will be a fun way to die.”
This is what the phone sees when buried with the camera facing down in the snow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXI2B6YARs
If you average out the color from this image, you get rgb(143, 139, 136). Thus, #8f8b88 is the color of Picasso snow.
The phone survived the Picasso wipeout.
I think I’ve found myself a new annual tradition. Walking on the Picasso sculpture when it’s covered in a blanket of snow.