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Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: 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 (http://hallbuzz.com/movies/2007/bubbles_blows_up.wmv).  I'll show it to her class on Monday.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Airscrew on November 17, 2007, 09:30:51 PM
:eek:  :lol   boy, theres gonna be some upset kids come Monday morning.. :lol
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Meatwad 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) :)
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Rollins 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.  :)
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Motherland on November 18, 2007, 12:32:51 AM
LMAO :rofl  :rofl   :rofl  :rofl
How high in the air did it go? It didnt come down for quite a while.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: culero on November 18, 2007, 03:00:46 AM
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Originally posted by Motherland
LMAO :rofl  :rofl   :rofl  :rofl
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 :)
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: SirLoin 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.

:rofl
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Curval 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
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: moot 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 :rolleyes:
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: eskimo2 on November 18, 2007, 08:02:44 AM
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Originally posted by Motherland
LMAO :rofl  :rofl   :rofl  :rofl
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.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: BBBB 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. :aok
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: moot on November 18, 2007, 09:46:55 AM
Some people never watched those old early 20th century movies' special effects.. :lol
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Dago on November 18, 2007, 10:35:28 AM
You're a sick man eskimo, but sick people are way funnier than sane ones.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: AKIron on November 18, 2007, 10:44:04 AM
I hope Bubbles learned his/her lesson. :aok

Ya oughta put a few bandages on Bubbles before taking it back to school.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Meatwad 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 :D
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: texasmom on November 18, 2007, 11:13:39 AM
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Originally posted by Curval
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


LOL ~ that post struck me as kinda funny. :)

The same kind of funny where a Mom is telling her child in a soothing voice, "sweetheart, leave the furniture on the floor."
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: moot on November 18, 2007, 12:19:23 PM
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Originally posted by AKIron
I hope Bubbles learned his/her lesson. :aok

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

No explosion, no bandages... It's not good to give children's ideas smoke when there was no fire.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Motherland on November 18, 2007, 12:36:58 PM
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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.

....
It didnt seem quite right. Though the overall effect was pretty convincing, especially if you only watched it once or twice. That and Im not that good at picking out modifications to video (what? Im not. Nothing wrong with that).

Still funny as hell.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: crockett on November 18, 2007, 02:05:18 PM
Video is dead.. but I thought there was a new Trailer Park Boys episode.  :rolleyes:
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: moot on November 18, 2007, 02:16:11 PM
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Originally posted by crockett
The first chicken to cluck laid the egg  :rolleyes:

Video works for me, no sign of trailer parkisms  ;)
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Latrobe on November 18, 2007, 05:55:26 PM
I think Bubbles just Augered :rofl :rofl
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: crockett on November 18, 2007, 09:07:58 PM
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Originally posted by moot
Video works for me, no sign of trailer parkisms  ;)


Bubbles says the link 404's for him too..

(http://www.hula-la.com/girl_images/bubblesmug.jpg)
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: eskimo2 on November 18, 2007, 09:35:01 PM
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Originally posted by crockett
Bubbles says the link 404's for him too..

(http://www.hula-la.com/girl_images/bubblesmug.jpg)


Here's the complete URL:

http://hallbuzz.com/movies/2007/bubbles_blows_up.wmv

Copy and paste it into your browser.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: AWMac on November 18, 2007, 09:48:55 PM
It's sick minds like Eskimos that make this World sooo dammm interesting!

:rofl

:aok

Mac
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: crockett on November 18, 2007, 10:00:28 PM
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Here's the complete URL:

http://hallbuzz.com/movies/2007/bubbles_blows_up.wmv

Copy and paste it into your browser.


Yea I tried that, I even went to his blog but still no go.. I don't have firefox or anthing else installed to see whats up. Forwhat ever reason it just 404's.

The http://hallbuzz.com/images/2007/nov/bubbles.png picture on the blog is a red x for me too. Yet all the other pictures work fine. Might be some glitch with IE.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Phaser11 on November 19, 2007, 06:57:02 AM
OK Eskimo,
 What a great way to start a Monday. :rofl

I think Eskimo is really Bill Nie the Science Guy!
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: eskimo2 on November 19, 2007, 06:08:48 PM
So I showed Brigitta’s class the clip today.  I had mild concerns that some of them might get a little upset; little kids can have a real emotional connection to inanimate objects like stuffed animals.  The clip plays; the bear is sitting there, and then the explosion…  I don’t think I have ever heard a class laugh so hard or loud.  It was pure mass hysteria; so much for empathy.  Then I showed the clip of Brigitta blowing up and they laughed just as hard.  I ended with a PowerPoint presentation of Bubbles Photoshopped into a variety of places across the world; they liked that too.
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: JB88 on November 19, 2007, 07:01:27 PM
:rofl :rofl :rofl

:aok
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: texasmom on November 19, 2007, 09:27:11 PM
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Originally posted by eskimo2
So I showed Brigitta’s class the clip today.  I had mild concerns that some of them might get a little upset; little kids can have a real emotional connection to inanimate objects like stuffed animals.  The clip plays; the bear is sitting there, and then the explosion…  I don’t think I have ever heard a class laugh so hard or loud.  It was pure mass hysteria; so much for empathy.  Then I showed the clip of Brigitta blowing up and they laughed just as hard.  I ended with a PowerPoint presentation of Bubbles Photoshopped into a variety of places across the world; they liked that too.


Good, good stuff.  :)
Title: Bubbles Gets Blowed Up
Post by: Halo on November 19, 2007, 11:57:33 PM
Very cute and fun, but you never know what lessons kids or anyone will take from anything.  Sure as heck some kid is liable to try something like that because he or she saw it in your film.  

Give your lawyer a heads-up.  :(