I thought Leary had posted it some time ago but I cant locate it as of
now.
If my memory serves me I believe its liquid Joy soap - water &
glycerin????
My 2 year old will appreciate it!
Thanks!
Yes, I did post Finn Jon's Bubble Secrets way back when. Don't have
it handy, but you can search Mitch...@webtv.net for my most prolific
posts which occured between January 1999 and May 2004. I was doing so
much dope I just typed for days. Kinda wish I hadn't given some of
that stuff away. Too late now. Know that the three-lettered-agencies
took much of my most dangerous stuff down and paid me a couple of
visits. I post MUCH more than magic in this group and usenet groups.
As I recall Finn Jon used shampoo for his bubbles, mixed with sugar to
strengthen them. These things are a blast. If you don't have his
DVDs, their worth their weight in gold; I think Steven's may have
them. All the bubble secrets are on them. Blowing smoke into them
and then watching them burst into little smoke bombs is very cool.
His bubble blower was a cigar tube wrapped in brown mailing tape, so
it looked like a cigar. He would dip the tip into the bubble stuff
and blow bubbles. Very cool. I'd best not tell you what to add so
you can light them on fire, the kids are reading.
-Leary-
I seen this performer and all he does is bubble work: rapid sculpting
an object by blowing different size bubbles. Maybe it's on youtube.
If you have soft cotton gloves that tuxedo shops sell, you can
actually bounce a bubble back and forth a few times in your hand
before it pops. Craft stores even sell marbles that look like bubbles
you can also incorperate into the routine.
I vaguely remembering the steven's video about bubbles and it was
quite good, also look for the vito lupo lecture video (neo touch)
where he talks about his bubble work.
From a commercial stand point, it would be too messy to lug into
someone's home or at a windy festival, but it is a lot of fun to play
with :)
-A
Finn does some stuff with Invisible Elastic Thread and bubbles. He
also does a trick where he blows a bubble, bounces it around with air
current (using his arms), then plucks it out of the air and it turns
into a solid glass ball. It's just palmed but with practice it looks
fantastic.
If you think Finn Jon's bubble magic is great, you should see his
Multiplying Tennis Ball Act. It's the best, most baffling Multiplying
Ball Routine you will ever see. He's made all of the balls, except
one, out of sponge. They are painted with markers to look like tennis
balls. I understand Goshman tried to make these for marketing, but
couldn't get the lines to stick on and gave up on the idea. After
seeing Finn do his act I'd pay anything for a set of professionally
made sponge tennis balls. Finn used to make and sell them, he hand
cut each ball from a square of sponge. I keep checking sponge balls
in the pet stores, I've found a few that I made into tennis balls, but
they were too dense to really compress down into a small ball. This
is a marketing idea someone needs to take another look at.
-Leary-
plus trick ricky does ventrquzimu too:)
ps all neat i have a vhstape that has vito lop doing his cown act idea
plus edlanzonzo doing magic illusions for children show he even does
houdini sub trunk illusion
he has a boy taped all sides of box ad the crate wood lid that goes on
next idea
Vernet has a Multiplying Bubble set that would compliment the Finn Jon
bubble act nicely.