I just dropped off the Bubble Project Loop DVD and player at the Mission Cultural Center! You should come see the show! http://www.missionculturalcenter.org/MCCLA_New/gallery.html#celebrate_sf Thanks to Jeremiah for the great picture they used on the website! And thanks to Sterling for being so understanding when I called him with my best Barry-White-swallowing-gravel imitation and said I was too ill to do our long-awaited video shoot in Sutro Heights Park. Ack! I'm hoping for...mid-September to try again...?
The bubbles WILL descend from the Sutro Heights to the Ocean Beach. They will; I swear!
Finalllllly back in action here. Shooting starts for our next chapter SATURDAY! In the meantime, for those who've assumed I was musically challenged because of the videos' quietness, I made a teaser reel for which I whipped out a quick tune on the computer ('whipped out' meaning 'pulled my hair out learning garage band for 5 hours starting around 10pm'). http://vimeo.com/14139333 And the youtube homepage has been gussied up a bit... http://www.youtube.com/user/milfus Had a wonderful time bubbling with fambly a few Sundays ago. Look at 'em go! As far as me in this picture, well, white pants=laundry day, 'nuff said. ;) More soon!
Natasha is in her tenth month! She is now affectionately referred to as Hurricane Natasha...
Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our third Giant Bubble Party--we filled the sky with all sizes of bubbles on a scale that I could only have dreamed of a year ago... Video and pictures coming soon...
Natasha is in her 9th month still.... And the Tank Hill Video is DONE! (Gotta click the arrows to enlarge, hit play and then pause to let it pre-load...then after it's fully loaded, hit play and enjoy!)
The whole Project was virtually complete--one last installment: "Bubbling San Francisco," involving multiple scenic vignettes, to go--when I trotted up Tank Hill last March and found a site quietly insistent upon its own segment. A singular City view and startling breeze patterns made it a must. Enjoy! Please comment!
^that text^ comes with the video...There are in fact two more videos to go.
I'm counting on my friend Django, who shot the telephoto bits in the Tank Hill episode, to help me focus on the bubbling by running all three cameras in Sutro Heights Park, where I plan to go full circle by making it all about GIANT bubbles, as much as I can, which may mean many trips back for good weather, good solution, good shots...
It's weird, I'm becoming disenchanted with the glycerine and retreating to the simple Dawn, Water, J-Lube and Baking Powder mix I used a year ago. My big bubbles just seem weighed down and quick-drying with the glycerine...which is totally counter-intuitive...but that's where I am now. I was watching the Spreckels Lake/ GBP II Warm-Up video--which was with that old, simple mix--- and thinking, heck, I haven't gotten consistency like that since I started adding ingredients....Harumph!... Also going to start experimenting from square one with some radically different mixes that have caught my eye over the past year. Stay tuned...
June Morley, purple-bucketed bubbler extraordinaire from the U.K. asked for some close-ups of the bubble equipment so, here's a picture and a video:
Also, I'm collecting location-scouting video with which I am going to make a very special video proposal to the SBF crew, see if I can get bubblers passing through my area in the coming months (years?) to contribute a moment at a site of their choosing for the final Bubble Project episode... Stay tuned!
When I was young, I wanted to make movies. In my 20s, I started making giant bubbles. In my 30's, I became an avid hiker. At 40, I became a dad and discovered I might have to somehow combine those first three into one project if I wanted to do ANY of them for awhile. So now I carry sloshing buckets and assorted video cameras to the tops of hills and see what happens. Here's how I explained it in the first blog...
And I, of course am wearing my "Island of Hors d'oeuvres" t-shirt while we wile away the hours in Ventura, CA...
Thanks to Jeremiah for the great picture they used on the website!
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