some body-size related soapbubbles, always nice to mess around with, especially for professors

The magic of soap bubbles: Dr Cyril Isenberg: Two asian experts in a bubble

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David Stein holds the official Guinness Book of Records mark for the longest bubble (50 feet x 2 feet in diameter using his own patented invention The Bubble Thing), and you can create long bubbles like this in your own backyard.

Freie Otto, Seifenblasen. Otto founded the famous Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart in 1964 and headed the institute until his retirement as university professor. Major works include the West German Pavilion at the Montreal Expo in 1967 and the roof of the 1972 Munich Olympic Arena, inspired by Vladimir Shukhov's architecture.


EL VUELO, Playa del Carabassi, Alicante 2003. “Alunizada” es una serie de piezas realizadas entre los años 2001 y 2003 cuya temática gira entorno a la idea de volar. http://olgadiegoalunizada.blogspot.nl/

Simon Faithfull’s Escape Vehicle No.6 started as a live event commissioned by The Arts Catalyst for its first International Artists Airshow. The live audience witnessed the launching of a weather balloon with a domestic chair dangling in space beneath it. Once the apparatus had disappeared into the sky, they then watched a live video relay from the weather balloon on a giant screen as it journeyed from the ground to the edge of space (30km up). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hSDbAo2WMk.2004. http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/detail/escapevehicle6/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmmrYM3nWM
Atmosfields 1971 Dessert Cloud 1974, Graham Stevens works in Centre Pompidou in Paris 2008. Research of the topic: Art and Levitation http://szvet.blog.hu/
http://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-6-1/now-history-repeats-itself-with-graham-stevens-pneumatic-art/

desert stranding balloon

tomas saraceno

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