Big Soap Bubbler Alan McKay 2008 Video Montage

Alan McKay Video Montage March 2008 Posted with his permission. © 2008 Alan McKay Information by clip: 1. Here's a view of my city, Wellington; with a bubblething bubble. 2. The sounds are of birds in the early morning overlooking Wellington Harbour 3. A bubble-thing clip! 4. It's cool when the sun sparkles off a bubble, this was made last year with Jumbo Juice mixture. 5. In calm weather the waterfront is a good location for seeing reflections and colours on bubbles and bubble-domes that form on the water (or sometimes bubbles bounce) 6. This is where I figured a loop with 17ft sides may be more practical; but two people could operate a larger loop I think. The bubble looked awesome though was only say 10-11ft wide so would need to have been drawn three times longer through the air and sealed to have a chance at becoming a sphere of 20ft diameter. Pushing the limits here (though not with my best mixture; this was 2007 Dawn Original Scent to 20 parts distilled water and probably about 0.5 % special ingredient, also with probably about 0.5% glycerine) (temperature probably 6 C (44F) humidity 100%). The walls of film towered up into the sky; I have a system for mounting the little digital camera on a hat to try to get a dramatic view in future of what these film walls look like up close... 7. Another big bubble 8. This bubble, once I made a more narrow tube beside it; the high pressure air in the tube flowed into the bubble, inflating it like a balloon. The tube (tube sealed as part of main bubble) became smaller, then broke off. But this caused the bubble to break. This is where Jumbo Juice, or a self-healing mixture, can save a bubble! I walked over to the bubble and saw the drama as the neck connecting the tube became smaller. The sphere seemed at least 11ft. The trick is to have a self-healing mixture that still allows no limit bubble expansion....

YouTube | March 31, 2008

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