I thought it would be interesting to see what a bluedart would look like if you launched a fart in the bathtub, lit the methane gas as it
broke the surface of the water and capture all of it with high speed cameras. I started with one highspeed camera to
test the timing and ended up using two that were parallel to each other and mounted them individually on motorized tracks. Both cameras and tracks were submerged and lowered to the exit. Several attempts were made to get the precise timing so that the cameras would launch at the beginning of the first
bubble and travel out of water at exactly the sametime, then continuing upward 8 inches above the waters surface. My well timed assistant
Veronica, used a Bic and lit the gas as it exited the water. Eureka! We filmed 25 seconds of underwater
bubble paradise, that I still use as a Sscreensaver today. An additional 25 seconds was fillmed out of water capturing the first
bubble pushing its way through the waters to the awaiting flame. It egnited a myriad of blue colors, each
bubble liting the next as it exited.
It is still my favorite highspeed film to date.
I was surprised by the shear
size of the flame that was created as my
Bathtub Bluedart exited the water nearly taking my
eyebrow off.