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Last of the bubble series.
This is to announce the publication online of my illustrated children book, called “Bubble Boy”.
But before I start I want to tell you a story about it. I wrote this story in German under the name “Bule” about 25 years ago, at a time where I was quite a beginner in art. I needed some help, somehow, to be able to illustrate from imagination a whole story, so I inspired myself, especially for the second main character of the story, from some of the drawings, from an artist called Brian Bagnall who was my favourite Cartoonist and illustrator at that time. I don’t remember how deeply I really went into his style (simply said: how much I really copied him! :-) but not so much either) so if you like my illustrations, Brian Bagnall should get some credit too for it.
But now to the story of the novel. After having written it, I never tried to publish it, but I gave it to some people to read, with the original illustrations. The day arrived when somehow the whole thing disappeared and nobody around me felt responsible. I thought the last one to have it between her fingers was a young girl called Daniele, but she denied it, and after a while I gave up looking for it. Quite sad, I must say…
And then the years passed, I moved many different times, thought sometimes with regret about My Bubble Boy, but always less and forgot him eventually.
Earlier this year, in February, I suddenly received the following email (in German) though a French schoolfriends site:
“Everybody knows it:
The net is very chatty
and uncovers some hidden secrets
when you ask him the right question.
Now that you have a net existence
maybe I can add another little piece of the Puzzle
to your already so restless life…
Having saying that:
Keep moving, always!”
followed by a link to a web page, almost blank, with the following words in the middle:
Bule
bei Momo
I was very surprised, and at first had no idea what that was. But then suddenly I remembered: Bule! Bule, the little boy born in a soap bubble in Japan and travelling through the sky in his bubble!
Bule, this (unpublished) story for children which I wrote and illustrated when I sometimes let myself be called “Momo”, in honour of a little orphan living in a ruin and chasing time thieves…
Bule, the book which I thought was lost forever… almost forgotten… banished from my memory…
And I asked myself: Who sent them back to me? Well, I won’t make the story too long here, but after some investigation, I found out that it was my first husband who sent the link to me,. He had found the book back somewhere! And well, some weeks later, I was even in possession of the original drawings. You can perhaps imagine my happiness! I want here to thank him, Johannes, for having done that for me. It means immensely much to me, the story itself, and the gesture. He was by the way the one who brought me to writing too, something which I deeply enjoy, perhaps even more than painting…
So! Here he is, my Bubble Boy, and it is with this logo that I will serialise the story, under the names “Bubble Boy 1″, “Bubble Boy 2″, etc… I will publish here twice a week the illustrations, always, as far as possible, on Mondays and Thursdays. Starting on Thursday, 1st.January, 2009. And you will be able to read the corresponding episode of the story in Cafe Literati, the literary room of Cafe Crem,. I will give you the corresponding link every time.
Boiling or bubbling - Our Daily Challenge
Bubbles of the moment in a gushing stream of water in the garden of the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.
The Rock and The Bubble
Oh! a bare, brown rock Stood up in the sea,
The waves at its feet Dancing merrily.
A little bubble Once came sailing by,
And thus to the rock Did it gayly cry,
Ho! clumsy brown stone, Quick, make way for me:
I'm the fairest thing That floats on the sea.
See my rainbow-robe, See my crown of light,
My glittering form, So airy and bright.
O'er the waters blue, I'm floating away,
To dance by the shore With the foam and spray.
Now, make way, make way; For the waves are strong,
And their rippling feet Bear me fast along."
But the great rock stood Straight up in the sea:
It looked gravely down, And said pleasantly
Little friend, you must Go some other way;
For I have not stirred this many a long day.
Great billows have dashed, And angry winds blown;
But my sturdy form Is not overthrown.
Nothing can stir me In the air or sea;
Then, how can I move, Little friend, for thee?
Then the waves all laughed In their voices sweet;
And the sea-birds looked, From their rocky seat,
At the bubble gay, Who angrily cried,
While its round cheek glowed With a foolish pride
You shall move for me; And you shall not mock
At the words I say, You ugly, rough rock.
Be silent, wild birds! While stare you so?
Stop laughing, rude waves, And help me to go!
"For I am the queen Of the ocean here,
And this cruel stone Cannot make me fear.
Dashing fiercely up, With a scornful word,
Foolish Bubble broke; But Rock never stirred.
Then said the sea-birds, Sitting in their nests
To the little ones Leaning on their breasts,
Be not like Bubble, Headstrong, rude, and vain,
Seeking by violence Your object to gain;
"But be like the rock, Steadfast, true, and strong,
Yet cheerful and kind, And firm against wrong.
Heed, little birdlings, And wiser you'll be
For the lesson learned To-day by the sea.
Louisa May Alcott
This is one of the songs from the Bubble records. Thought you might enjoy hearing them. They are from 1918 and are called the singing books.
I've been busy these past few days, so I haven't really had time to take new pictures. Fortunately I'm also bad at uploading everything promptly, so I've got a ready backlog. Here, bubbles and my son's hand.
I played around with bubbles today with backdrops of my photography on my iphone in the background. I had started with a candle in the background to add light, and it eventually evolved into this.
1610.
" THE BUBBLERS MEDLEY, or a SKETCH of the TIMES Being
EUROPES MEMORIAL for the YEAR 1720." (No. i.)
Printed for Tho : Bowles Print # Map Seller next y e Chapter House in S l
PauVs Church Yard London; where may be had of curious Prints
Maps Painting upon Glass, Copper - 1 [Aug. 1O, 1720]
THIS Medley consists of an engraved representation of various prints and papers,
lying in confusion upon one another, and almost concealing a print of a maritime
subject, and having, in the corner, another of a boy blowing bubbles. At the top
of the medley is the "Mint Coffe House" with the inscription "Si Populus vult De-
cepi Decepeatur ". Parties of rogues and their victims are seated at tables, labels
attached to individuals indicate their acts and characters.
One says " English Copper* has ruined me, I sold my Mannor 8f bought
y e Stock at 105 P. Cent". His neighbour complains, " As for me I laid out not
only my own Estate but my Ward's Fortune in York Buildings 3 at 3-" A.
third states, "/ was to have took S. Sea at 1OOO but chose rather to live here
like a Knave than to go to jayl like a Fool" A fourth tells the last speaker,
"And I sold a Bear of jJOOOOZ. but Stock rising whipt over here Sf will never Pay
the Difference". 4 The waiter says, to a third group of these men, " Gentlemen
you must Lye 4 in a Bed or 'twill be Impossible to find Room for 6 Merchants I
expect here this Night." The Mint Coffee House was in Southwark, this explains
the allusion of the speaker who says that he "whipt over" there. There is
a reference to this place in "The Bubblers Mirrour", &c., "(Grief)", 1720,
No. 1621, and another in " The Bubbler's -Kingdom in the Aireal-World," 1 720,
No. 1622.
" The Dutch Bubblers " is the title of the next print on our left ; it shows a
ballad singer and newsman in a street, surrounded by listeners. Below are verses
ridiculing the "crafty" Dutchmen for being as "foolish as any neighbouring nation."
The verses are as follows:
1 This print was again issued with the new publication line : " Printed for
Carington Bowles, N. 69 in S'. Pauls Church Yard London " and numbered " 22".
2 See
1625.
The Bubblers bubbl'd or the Devil take the Hindmost", 1720, No.
3 See "A Monument dedicated to Posterity", 1720, No. 1629.
4 For "Bear," see "The Stocks," &c., March 28, 1734.
i 7 2o] GEORGE I. 413
" The Dutch, who once were thought to be,
A. crafty Generation,
Are grown as foolish now we see,
As any Neighbouring Nation :
They coppy England, England France,
In vile destructive Bubbles,
And e'ery idle fraud advance,
That can augment their troubles.
Three Nations sure were never curs'd,
Before with such a Madness,
That raises joy full hopes at first,
But terminates in Sadness"
At one side of these verses are mice in a strong box, destroying deeds and
documents ; on the other, the Frog emulating the Ox.
The knave of hearts is the subject of the next design.
" QUINQUEMPOIX STREET." 11 follows; it was the scene of the great bubble
operations of John Law 2 at Paris. This print is a copy from one published in
" Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid," 3 a collection of satires on the schemes of
Law and others in 1720. The original is described in this Catalogue as "Rue
Quinquempoix en 1'Annee, 1720", 1720, No. 1655. It is No. 30 in the first
volume of the series, " Het Groote Tafereel ", &c. ; the copy has been reversed
from the original. Below the copy here in question are these lines :
" Behold the famous Pile 4 where Law of late
BubbFd the Publick to enrich the. State,
But Traytor like when he ye Work had done,
Was glad to Fly the Peoples rage to shun ;
Some say for Safty he is fled to Rome
Yet let us not reflect but look at home,
T'wixt France Sf us this difference is found
Their Bubblers run but ours must stand the ground
Grieve not my friends 'tis but a merry farce
To hear ye Kettle call ye Pot black ."
" Bubble Poem " is the next subject, in it is a design of speculators buying
stock in front of the Stock Exchange, London, with verses beneath, descriptive
of such transactions. The verses are as follows :
" There is a Gulf where Thousands fell,
Here all the bold Advent'rers came ;
A Narrow Sound, iho 1 Deep as Hell,
Change-Alley is the dreadfull Name.
Nine times a Day it Ebbs and Flows,
Yet he that on the Surface lies,
Without a Pilot seldom knows
The time it Falls, or when "'twill Rise.
Subscribers here by Thousands float,
Andjustle one another down ;
Each padling in his leaky Boat,
And here they sigh for Gold and drown.
1 See " Quinquenpoix Bombario", 1720, No. 1639.
2 For Law of Lauriston see " Quinquenpoix Bombario", 1720, No. 1639
3 That is " The Great Table of Folly".
4 So, the Rue Quinquempoix, see post.
414 GEORGE I. [1710
Now bury"d in the Depth below,
The mounted up to Heav"n again ;
They Reel and Stagger to and fro,
At their Wits end, like Drunken Men.
Mean time, secure on Garr 1 way's Cliffs,
A Savage Race by Shipwrecks fed,
Lye waiting for the founder" d Skiffs,
And Strip the Bodies of the Dead.
As Fishes on each other Prey,
The Greet Ones Swallowing up the Small,
So fares it in the Southern Sea ;
But Whale Directors Entrap all
While some build Castles in the Air,
Directors build "em in the Seas ;
Subscribers plainly see "em there,
For Fools will see as Wise Men please.
Thus by Directors we are told,
Pray Gentlemen believe your Eyes ;
Our Ocean's cover' d o'er with Gold,
Look round about how thick it lies :
Oh ! would these Patriots be so kind,
Here in the Deep to wash their Hands ;
Then like Pactolus, we should fold,
The Sea indeed had Golden Sands.
The Nation too too late will find,
Computing all their Cost and Trouble,
Directors Promises but Wind,
South Sea at best a Mighty Bubble.""
In the next print, " STOCK JOBBING CARDS, or the Humours of Change
Alley"" is on a label held by an angel over a vista of a street, and people hurry-
ing along it, with verses, thus :
" Thus with like haste thro" different Paths they run
Some to Undoe and some to be Undone.""
Below the view of the street the following lines are engraved :
" See with what haste Unthinking Fools are Running,
To Humour Knaves and Gratify their Cunning;
All seem Transported with a Joyfull Madness,
But soon their mighty Hopes will turn to Sadness.""
Likewise is engraved the following publication line : " Sold by Tho : Boi
Print Seller in S*. Pauls Church Yard London."" '
The last print is " The London Gazette to Aug. 16, 1720," containing a pr
clamation from the Lords Justices and directing the Attorney General to bring writ
of " Scire facias"" against the York Buildings, Lustring, English Copper, and We
Copper and Lead Companies.
1 This publication line was altered before the print was issued the second
time (see the previous note to this entry) to the following : " Sold by Caring
Bowles. N. 69, S'. Pauls Church Yard London.""
,720] GEORGE I. 415
The Rue Quinquempoix is the name of the street in Paris in which was the
Exchange, where the transactions in Law's French Mississippi Scheme were com-
menced. It became notorious for the extraordinary scenes which were exhibited
by the adventurers, varying from the most extravagant expectations to the deepest
despair. There is a view of the Rue Quinquempoix in " Quinquenpoix Bombario,"
a print described under that title in this Catalogue, 1720, No. 1639, and another
in " Op en ondergang der Actieonisten," 1720, No. 1647. See also " Almanach
de la Fortune," 1720, No. 1618.
~This and many other prints were occasioned by the South Sea Scheme and
the various mad speculations which inflamed the people at that time; a large
proportion of the nation became stock-jobbers and projectors; persons of the
highest rank were deeply engaged; and there are no expressions so strong, nor
representations so gross, in these prints, as to surpass the actual transactions and
scenes which occurred during the existence of this mania.
The first issued impression of this plate, which is described above, is in the
" Crowle," Pennant's " Some Account of London," Part XII, No. 133. 1 There
are two impressions of the later issue, with the number "22", being that o
its place in the series of Carington Bowles's publications, of which several are
described here. This is one of the prints referred to in the publication lines of
"Robin's Flight," Jan. 22, 1721, and "The Bubbler's-Kingdom," 1720, No.
1622.
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Got an unexpected call from Dopie...saying...we are gonna do a piece today...ik said....ehhhh.....OK hehe.
he did the bubbles and the character....i did the piece.
we kept the background nice and clean to show the effect of the bubbles more.
No Tags...No Seconds.....No BuLL...i am very happy with the result....and yeahhh i know...my lines could be more sharp....i say....fuck it hehe
Trying to get a nice shot of a moving bobble, the bystander lady turns her head and initially thinks I'm shooting her butt. I had to show her on the camera that I wasn't.
My daughter disappeared into the garage and came out with a bubble blower that she quickly put together with copper wire. She didn't have any problem getting lots of bubbles going - I was furiously focusing and following them!
It's done and I love it!
Pattern: Bubble pullover from Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan.
Yarn: Novita Nalle, two strands.
Needles: 3.5 mm for ribbing, 4 mm for pentagons, 4.5 mm for sleeves.
Modifications: Did the sleeves in the round up to the armholes.
Weight: 598 g
from the Children's Discovery Museum. This thing was cool, but I didn't catch it w/ a full bubble.
Oh well, HBW Flickr friends!! And HBSITBW too!
I absolutely love bubbles! And thanks to one of my wonderful photography friends i have lots of bubble bath! I pretty much take a bath every night, showers just aren't my thing :)