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Keith Michael Johnson
RI Bubble Guy

When not performing, Keith Michael Johnson, Rhode Island's Bubble Guy, is experimenting and stretching the limits of what bubbles can do and what people can learn from them.

Describing Keith takes more than one short phrase. One has to use words such as artist, entertainer, scientist, researcher, teacher -- the list could go on and on. One of his specialties is presenting core academic subjects in a theatrical, humorous, and enthusiastic way.

Keith describes his work with bubbles as "a passion to use these spherical wonders--from tiny, intricate geometric sculptures to VW Beetle-sized behemoths that lumber through the air like dinosaurs--to stir the minds and imaginations of audiences." He adds, "The art of soap bubbling lies in its capacity to dramatically illustrate the transformation of the mundane into the extraordinary."

Keith has developed a huge site that can tell you everything you've ever wanted to know about bubbles, bubble performers, and all things bubble-related. Check it out at SoapBubbler.com.

He includes a huge history area that will give you tons of information about bubbles over the past 100+ years. He says, "I was really taken with all that bubblers were up to between 1885 & 1925. Much of what they were doing back then has been forgotten. I'd like to bring it back and keep it alive, in my own way. I mean, a 'bubble social' as a small group fund-raising event sounds like a fun time! Or bubble parties for kids with contests and bubble games.

"They had an enthusiasm for playfully testing the limits of bubble's abilities back then, which I found contagious and have tried to carry into my show."

His bubble show was the first in America to be created with funding support from state and federal arts endowment sources, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. The show includes bubble domes, lighter than air gasses, home- made bubble devices and inventions, and secret solutions that make bubbles live the entire length of the show.

Keith starts his shows with "You know, I get to talk with a lot of kids, and when I ask them what they want to be when they grow up ~ no one ever says Bubble Artist. Well, I'd like to change that. In fact, that's what this show's all about..."

Casey Carle
BubbleMania

Casey Carle starting bubbling professionally in 1987 while performing for Ringling Bros Circus. After running away FROM the circus, Casey expanded his bubble skills into a solo act that is a full-time occupation. His "BubbleMania!" stage show is presented in two formats: "Comedy with a Drip!" for family audiences and theaters and "Science, Art & Comedy!" for schools, science centers, and educational events.

Humor, both verbal and physical, is a big part of Casey's performance style. It's this spontaneity and off-the-cuff comedy that keeps the show fresh for him and up to 400 audiences a year.

I first saw Casey's show at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle in August 2005. After the show, he joined the rest of us at the First National Gathering of Professional Bubble Blowers.

A great performer, Casey mixes science, art, and humor in his shows. He has performed on TV, at the Smithsonian Institution, and he won an international bubblers competition in Japan in 2005.

Among his other activities, he was recently selected by Cirque du Soleil as their soap bubble consultant, coach, and technician.

Casey developed and, with Jim Moskowitz, wrote a great science book for kids, Bubbleology: A Hands-On Science Kit. The book is integrated with a kit that includes all the needed equipment and instructions for 30 bubble experiments. He kindly donated a copy of the book/kit to the Bubble Blower Museum.

You can find out more information about this wonderful book in the Books about Bubbles section of this website

Sterling Johnson
The Bubblesmith

The only performer who specializes in blowing bubbles using only his hands, Sterling Johnson 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.

Sterling 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."

His favorite bubble story comes from
when he was volunteering at a school for severely retarded children when he was in engineering school. He says, "There was an autistic girl who gave very little reaction to anything going on around her. I made some half-sphere bubbles on a soapy formica table top for some of the kids, letting those who were able to play with the bubbles I had made. All of a sudden, the girl's eyes seemed clearer, and she became engaged with the igloo-like bubbles that were in front of her. She played with the them, touched them, and was interested in their popping. Her teacher said it was the only time that had ever happened. It was pretty touching to be present for that."

Sterling has appeared in Smithsonian and Omni magazines, and is a featured artist in Klutz's The Unbelievable Bubble Book.

Kelly O'Neill Big Bubble Magic


Big bubbles are Kelly'specialty -- and "big," he says, "means from the size of one to ten medium sized automobiles." He's great at it, and he also is one of those wonderful people who share information. He says, "I give my 'secrets' of bubbling away as I want to help people experience and spread the magic and joys of big bubbling to every corner of the planet and beyond." Kelly's website, Big Bubble Magic, is filled with wonderful tidbits of knowledge he's learned through experience. You will find bubble solution recipes at his site, information about blowing bubbles at night, how to make big -- really, really big -- bubbles, the effects on bubbles of different kinds of weather, bubble wands, and materials to use.

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