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The giant bubble people of Central Park

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:46 pm Tue, Dec 18, 2012

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Scott Matthews saw my post about making giant bubbles and said:
Perfect timing! My daughter and I were just walking through Central Park and noticed a sudden proliferation of giant bubble people. She was totally transfixed, an so was I. Here's a photo I took, I got lucky with the shot.

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

    I know how cold it can get in the northern hemisphere in December and I wonder if this reduces the viscosity of soapy water, making it easier to make huge bubbles.

    • Ipo

       I’ve done it in the tropics, seemed easy. 

  • MollyMaguire

    I have done the giant bubble thing before at parks and outdoor birthday parties. Everyone loves it. Maybe the parents even more than the kids, who are usually just obsessed with popping them. But if you’ve got some sciency-minded adults in the crowd, everyone starts talking about surface tension, refraction of light through the bubble wall, the effects of humidity; neat stuff. 

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    Is he capturing one of these giant bubble people with that device?

  • http://www.facebook.com/dimitrios.papagiannis Dimitrios Papagiannis

    Hi Mark there are some oc us here in LA that love doing this.  I always had a fantasy of meeting at the park in front of the Rose Bowl with a bunch of other giant bubble makers and we all make giant bubbles.  Also here is a good group to join on Yahoo regarding bubble making.
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soapbubblefanciers/

  • Cowicide

    Amazing composition.  Just had to run this filter on it to see what it would look like…

  • Ramone

    The picture, while impressive, is a smidge of letdown given the headline.  ;)

  • Robert

    Damn, those bubble-people are giant! And they’re posing like they’re sitting on that bench.

  • http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

    With the three ladies in the bubble, it looks like some modern seance to summon the Norns… 

  • amyharmon

    I liked the suggestion, from an FB friend, that they are the daughters of Glinda