Author Topic: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up (Read 1046 times)

eskimo2 · « **on:** November 17, 2007, 09:25:36 PM »

My five year old daughter got her Kindergarten class bear “Bubbles” this weekend. Each week one child is chosen to take Bubbles home for the weekend. They are supposed to do special things with Bubbles and their parents write about their experiences in a journal. The next week the child gets to be the class VIP, show pictures of her family and bring in treats for the class, etc. I borrowed Bubbles today to make an important safety video that shows why children should NEVER PLAY WITH LIGHTERS. I'll show it to her class on Monday.

Airscrew · « **Reply #1 on:** November 17, 2007, 09:30:51 PM »

boy, theres gonna be some upset kids come Monday morning..

Meatwad · « **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2007, 10:21:09 PM »

Bubbles Safety Film #04A

Title: "How Not to be Seen"

(pssst - a leaf was out of place in the film)

Rollins · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2007, 10:44:50 PM »

Great stuff as always! Haven't checked on the blog in awhile. Great pics, your adventures in the great outdoors always make me homesick. Thanks.

Motherland · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2007, 12:32:51 AM »

LMAO

How high in the air did it go? It didnt come down for quite a while.

culero · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2007, 03:00:46 AM »

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Originally posted by Motherland
LMAO
How high in the air did it go? It didnt come down for quite a while.

LOL eskimo, you've started a "Are You Smarter Than A Grade School Child" game here. Beauty

SirLoin · « **Reply #6 on:** November 18, 2007, 06:28:32 AM »

Hehe!!...Lesson of the day.

Don't fool around with daddy's model rocket engines...Would have beeen funny bubbles coming down in a parachute.

Curval · « **Reply #7 on:** November 18, 2007, 07:28:23 AM »

My son's call did the same thing with a bear called "Q-Bear". We took him fishing, to the beach, out on a boat etc etc But we never blew him up. lol

moot · « **Reply #8 on:** November 18, 2007, 07:45:00 AM »

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Originally posted by culero
LOL eskimo, you've started a "Are You Smarter Than A Grade School Child" game here. Beauty

Huh yeah it obviously got stuck in the branches for a moment

eskimo2 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 18, 2007, 08:02:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Motherland
LMAO
How high in the air did it go? It didnt come down for quite a while.

I guess the film was effective then…

If you pause the film just right or advance it frame by frame you’ll see that Bubbles disappears two frames before the explosion. (I was laughing too hard and didn’t notice them myself when I played back the edited clip). The part of the clip that you are not seeing includes me walking up to the bear, picking it up, lighting a fuse and leaving the picture frame. After several seconds of comedic timing, I tossed the bear back into the scene. The blast is just a couple of table spoons of black powder in a yogurt cup; powerful enough to lift some leaves and make a nice flash and smoke. In reality it made a “poof” sound. I amplified the heck out of it to make it sound like a boom.

BBBB · « **Reply #10 on:** November 18, 2007, 08:57:02 AM »

Damn you. Lol. I could so see the ending up as national headlines. All that needs to happen is for Nancy Grace to get a hold of it.

moot · « **Reply #11 on:** November 18, 2007, 09:46:55 AM »

Some people never watched those old early 20th century movies' special effects..

Dago · « **Reply #12 on:** November 18, 2007, 10:35:28 AM »

You're a sick man eskimo, but sick people are way funnier than sane ones.

AKIron · « **Reply #13 on:** November 18, 2007, 10:44:04 AM »

I hope Bubbles learned his/her lesson.

Ya oughta put a few bandages on Bubbles before taking it back to school.

Meatwad · « **Reply #14 on:** November 18, 2007, 10:47:11 AM »

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Originally posted by eskimo2
I guess the film was effective then…

If you pause the film just right or advance it frame by frame you’ll see that Bubbles disappears two frames before the explosion. (I was laughing too hard and didn’t notice them myself when I played back the edited clip). The part of the clip that you are not seeing includes me walking up to the bear, picking it up, lighting a fuse and leaving the picture frame. After several seconds of comedic timing, I tossed the bear back into the scene. The blast is just a couple of table spoons of black powder in a yogurt cup; powerful enough to lift some leaves and make a nice flash and smoke. In reality it made a “poof” sound. I amplified the heck out of it to make it sound like a boom.

What made me notice was that a single leaf in the lower bottom side suddenly jumps way out of place. right before the explosion.

But it looks like it wasnt noticed by some