lifehacker.com: Halloween is definitely the reason we’re showing you WhereToBuyDryIce.net! It’s definitely not that we just find this single-serving website charming and quaint! It’s not at all because we love that in 2018 there’s still a simple, regularly updated website that does one job and does it well. No, we’re posting this so you can add spooky ambience to your haunted house with dry ice!
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To be honest I only read this article because I was really wondering what someone could write for a whole article about dry ice. But honestly, those websites they recommended are really helpful to anyone wondering anything about dry ice. I know nothing about dry ice, so looking around on those websites taught me so much: about how to use dry ice, how to get it, the history of it, and safety. Probably more than I ever thought I would know about dry ice. The article talked about how important safety with dry ice and I think that is a very important thing for them to bring up. I think that dryiceinfo.com should definitely be something that every person who needs to or wants to handle dry ice is familiar with. The safety page is very easy to follow and very informative, and I think if everyone reads this page this Halloween, a lot of injuries could be prevented. I also never knew that there were three completely different websites solely dedication to different aspects of dry ice, it just never occurred to me that these websites would exist. The internet is a crazy place and you never know what you are going to find!
Much like Annika the idea of an entire article about dry ice, but that clearly was not even what is was about. The article was much more about fawning over the "old fashioned-ness" of the website, simple to use, straightforward, and not full of obnoxious adds. However even the relationship to the spooky season is irrelevant. I guess my first introduction to theatre was the theatrics of private front yard hauntings to scary the piss out of children. What is ironic is that in all the Facebook groups and local friends I have that are heavily invested in Halloween decorations at most one or two use dry ice and none use it as the primary producer of fog for their haunts. The main producer are glycol based fog machines. That is something that would make a much better article, let alone complete website. My science fair project one year was all about which brand of fog fluid produces the most dense fog, the quickest. Dry ice is incredibly ineffective when used in the uncontrollable exterior environment. Traditional fog can be cooled to hug the ground of a cemetery. The professional haunt fog machines could fill an entire standard front yard in a matter of minutes. The big haunter near my house, her entire street fills with fog so that it perpetually looks like the Exorcist.
Much like Annika the idea of an entire article about dry ice, but that clearly was not even what is was about. The article was much more about fawning over the "old fashioned-ness" of the website, simple to use, straightforward, and not full of obnoxious adds. However even the relationship to the spooky season is irrelevant. I guess my first introduction to theatre was the theatrics of private front yard hauntings to scary the piss out of children. What is ironic is that in all the Facebook groups and local friends I have that are heavily invested in Halloween decorations at most one or two use dry ice and none use it as the primary producer of fog for their haunts. The main producer are glycol based fog machines. That is something that would make a much better article, let alone complete website. My science fair project one year was all about which brand of fog fluid produces the most dense fog, the quickest. Dry ice is incredibly ineffective when used in the uncontrollable exterior environment. Traditional fog can be cooled to hug the ground of a cemetery. The professional haunt fog machines could fill an entire standard front yard in a matter of minutes. The big haunter near my house, her entire street fills with fog so that it perpetually looks like the Exorcist.
This article is barely an article, and basically functions just as a link to a very simple websites. While I do see these as a semi-valuable tools, especially for those who may travel around the country, and have trouble finding new places which sell dry ice. Overall, these websites are more useful than not, but generally fall under common sense. Many grocery store chains, from Kroger to Costco, sell dry ice. Also these websites accomplish the same thing as a simple google search, with added complexity. If you are in an unfamiliar city for whatever reason, and need to buy dry ice for whatever reason, then looking up: “where to buy dry ice nearby” is not only more convenient, but more accurate as well. However, this article does address that these websites are tools from the “old web.” This is when Google lacked certain functionality that has since made the platform so much more universal.
While this article is short and essentially just a list of websites to go to in order to buy dry ice, I still appreciate it. I think dry ice is such a cool effect, especially near Halloween, but I would not know the first thing about where to buy it if I were to want some for this year. Even though I could probably find these websites on my own with a Google search, I do appreciate not having to try and figure out which ones are valid and which ones are scams. Though not a very substantive piece of writing, I think little articles like this are still a little bit helpful to the general public, who is likely to be the ones needing these articles in the first place. I do hope that people do look into the safety measures surrounding dry ice though, because there are definitely right and wrong ways to go about handling it.
Much like Annika, I was intrigued about how an entire article could be dedicated to “where to buy dry ice.” While I did not spend any time looking at the website recommended to me by the article, I think it was a cool idea to develop such a website. The article was really just the liaison between the average consumer and that website, it was even a little “clickbait” for me. I love dry ice, if I could have it produced in my home I would. The uses for dry ice are so universal that I think dry ice should be available in most places. I do remember being able to walk into a grocery store back home in South Carolina and they had a big cooler full of dry ice for one dollar per pound. As for the website the article is referring too, I think it would be more productive if there was a way to buy dry ice online and have it shipped without “melting” too much before it gets to the consumer.
While it may be weird to think about, I have done this exact research in Los Angeles and have run across similar article in doing so before. Back at home, I used to design, build, tech, and run a haunted house every year. Almost every year I would go through blocks and blocks of dry ice. The first year I did the haunted house, I had to do plenty of research to find somewhere that would sell dry ice to the general public and not in bulk, and also let me pick it up as getting it delivered was always too expensive for me to do. This article is definitely something I can sympathize with. As funny as it may be, since finding a place locally that will sell me dry ice, I have used it for more things than just Halloween. For example, last summer at a summer entrepreneurial intensive I run, we were going to be handing out ice cream and had to buy dry ice to keep if frozen in a cooler for an extended period of time.
Dry ice is both a really damn cool effect but also at the same time is one of the most frustrating thing to try and purchase. This is mostly due to the fact it evaporates relatively rapidly if it is not sealed very well and you have to ship over long distances. I remember the logistics of trying to acquire dry ice my first year here at Kelly’s Dry Ice. I remember the lengths that we were going through to make sure that the dry ice did not evaporate while we were storing it before use. Thus I am fairly skeptical of trying to purchase dry from anywhere that might require it to shipped a considerable distance due to that fact that it would be hard to try and determine how much is likely to evaporate during the shipping. Now after thinking about dry ice purchasing I really want us to do a effect with it.
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