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The only performer who specializes in blowing bubbles using only his hands, Bubblesmith
was trained as an engineer and a lawyer. His bubble blowing to entertain friends
over 30 years ago has developed into a full stage show.
Bubblesmith is the only person to ever put a bubble inside a bubble inside
a bubble on stage without any straws or tubes, and the first person to walk
completely through a bubble film. He explains it this way, "When a hand
is soapy, you can slide it right into a bubble because the bubbles respond as
if your hand is part of them. I had a fantasy of getting entirely soapy and
walking into or out of a vey large bubble. We tried it at the second and third
Exploratorium Bubble Festivals in the 1980s. I stripped down to my bathing suit
and bathing cap, was drenched with detergent, and Richard Faverty waved huge
bubbles over me as I attempted to walk out through the film. Although the bubble
often popped just as my last foot was coming out, I got credit for having succeeded
by the end."
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