The Ice Carver

Story/Video posted January 2, 2018 in Arts & Entertainment by Baidi Wang.

Ryan Crosby is one of a dozen people who carved more than 100 blocks of ice on the last day of 2017 for First Night State College.

He is a student at Penn State Altoona. Crosby said he has loved ice carving since he was young. He was encouraged to begin carving by his father, who owns DiMartino Ice.

Crosby said he enjoys the comaradiery of the ice carving crew. His goal is to become an engineer, but he said he'll always be an ice carver, too

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Baidi Wang

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Baidi Wang, is from Shanghai, China. She aspires to be a visual journalist or a filmmaker. She enjoys producing stories that convey emotion in a compelling way.​ She is interning as a production assistant for documentary filmmaker Boaz Dvir. She is a photographer and videographer for The Underground at Penn State. She has produced video stories for the NPPA Multimedia Immersion workshop at Syracuse University and for the Keystone and Short Doc workshops at Penn State.