At the risk of sounding old... "ah one and ah two-ah..."
We only shot them briefly and we did it over the orchestra... which they found annoying but when they would be sitting down for a half hour. So by the time they stood up the floor actually was dry.
We use a Hot Air Bubble Machine. Basically it has a hair dryer inside the cage of wands. The bubbles do float longer but not long enough to completely dry...
Oh yeah and that's the other thing, " we want the bubbles to rise...." Rise? You realize that soap is heavier than air? You realize that I was given no budget for helium for 8 weeks of run? You realize that I don't own a bubble machine that uses helium right ?
" What do you mean? Bubbles float up..... sometimes....."
I have a couple of real cheap plastic machines. They cost about $A20.00 and last me about 6 months at the kids parties and so on I do sometimes.
I once had someone ask if I could make bubbles fluorescent. I know you can buy fluorescent bubble mix but couldn't find any. Someone suggested we tried tonic water (which apparently fluoresces because of the Quinine) instead of water. Didn't work.
I once tried blowing smoke from a smoke machine through a bubble machine to see if I could get bubbles that would burst with a little puff of smoke. That didn't work either, although I still think it should. I probably haven't thought of something.
Wildfire does make a fluorescent water dye. However from what I saw in one of the water curtain devices at LDI it appears to stain things it lands on... so I would be VERY careful where I used it. Definitely not in bubbles unless there was no one walking under them and the area could be easily cleaned really well.
I think Wildfire intends the fluorescent water dye for use in fountains and other self contained water features only.
I can deal with bubble machines, those aren't so bad. What is bad are snow machines. The fluid is more soap concentrated than bubble fluid, which makes it much more slippery than bubbles. It is harder to clean up when spilled. The residue from it is much worse. And when it is done being slippery after having dried, it is just plain sticky. It is really kinda gross stuff.
Ice floors are tricky enough to walk on normally and when they are covered with "snow", you are likely to badly hurt, if not kill, yourself. Silly board op thought if was funny to "test" the snow machines again when I was loading the pyro on the front of the set. [size=-2]JERK![/size]
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