Casey is a very "Google-able" soap bubbler. Interviews and photos abound, as you'll see. He's the most working soap bubble entertainer in the world I would guess. Just this year alone he won a soap-bubbling competition in Japan, did hundreds of shows and was hired as a creative consultant to the Cirque du Soleil. He's authored a book, made a bubble film (as in movie), and invented new bubble manipulations. As you will read, he got his start as the pioneer of circus bubbling. And if you've spent as much time surfing the web looking for soap bubble information, you will have quickly realized Casey's www.Bubblemania.com tends to top most of the search lists.
Casey won a TV Champion competition in Japan in 2005. Click here for a short video segment from the program, he really wows the judges!
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What follows are four or five articles, in which we'll meet Casey Carle and learn a bit more about who he is, how he got started, what he thinks of his work and what other's think of his programs.
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By Olivia L. Lawrence, The Berlin Citizen
Sunday August 21, 2005
Bubble mania came to town last week when "bubble-ologist" Casey Carle brought his zany act to Berlin-Peck Memorial Library. Carle, a former Ringling Brothers Circus performer, thrilled an audience of more than 100 children and adults July 13 with his soap and water magic.
Carle, who lives in East Haddam, recently won the honor of being the world's leading bubble artist during a bubble-off in Japan against other bubble masters. He readily admits that it's rather unusual for a grown man to make his living with soap and water, but Carle's "effervescent entertainment" is obviously in a class by itself.
"My bubbles are trained to entertain," he told the audience. The crowd went wild as the king of pop showed off his skills. Soap and water morphed into a multifaceted crystal ball, then spinning planets, next a cascade of gigantic bubbles during a concert piece Carle called a "soap opera." He even showed the secret to creating a square bubble.
For the most part, Carle used a traditional bubble wand, just like those that come in the standard bubble soap bottles every child possesses at one time or another. He also demonstrated how ordinary household items such as an elastic band or paper towel tube can be used in bubble craft as well.
From the audience, Carle used items supplied by the kids to illustrate the wide variety of tools that can be used to make a bubble: a sneaker, a hat, a scrunchie.
For his grand finale, Carle brought out the giant bubble wand. He would encase an entire human being in a bubble, he explained to a rapt audience. A young volunteer from the audience joined Carle on stage to help the bubble wizard pull off the spectacular trick.
The Boston Globe ~ ARTS
By Denise Taylor | September 30, 2004
CHOREOGRAPHED BUBBLES -- Casey Carle knows a lot about dish liquid. The comic ''bubbleologist," who performs Saturday in Sherborn, says creating the perfect soap solution from Dawn or Joy
can make or break his act. ''Unlike the bubbles you blow in your backyard, my bubbles have to perform on cue," he says. Besides creating ephemeral masterpieces out of thin soap, like his ''crystal ball" or ''the space ship," Carle's ''Bubblemania" show features a ''Bubble Concerto." ''I choreographed the bubble manipulations to big-band music," he says.
Long columns of foam are balanced, bubble helmets and jewelry donned, and even square bubbles blown. ''Then after demonstrating that I can blow bubbles from just about anything, I leave the stage and grab things from the audience," he says. ''I've been challenged by some pretty bizarre stuff--key chains, jackets, stuffed animals, dolls."
Behind the act is a wealth of training and a passion for this slippery art. Carle developed his bubble act at the former Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. Then he performed it with the circus for two years, to much applause. In 1989, he branched out on his own full time and hasn't looked back since.
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Jokes aside, Carle's awe for these momentary prisms comes through. ''I often think of what Mark Twain said about soap bubbles," he says. ''He wrote, 'A soap bubble is the most beautiful, most exquisite thing in nature. I wonder how much it would cost to buy a soap bubble, if there was only one in the world?' "
Cappers, 10/15/2002
By Leann Campbell
"You will see why I am the bubble guy," says Casey carle, who introduces himself as the bubble maniac. His Bubblemania show is performed with soap bubbles.
"I will make a bubble spaceship that will fly through the air and a soap bubble that is not round," his spiel says.
"By the time I get done, today, somebody in the audience will be inside a soap bubble."
Sometimes he puts two people, a child and an adult, inside one giant bubble.
"I use simple toy-store wands," he says, "like the ones you have at home."
Through practice, Carle has learned to use the wands to make and control bubbles, sticking them together to form sculptures. Sometimes he makes soap-fim tubes more than 25 feet long. some of the bubbles bend, bounce and boogie, and some are smoke-filled - without using tobacco products. Carle also makes bubbles that he can stick to his hands through and bubble caterpillars, ice-cream cones and popcorn.
In one show, a little girl who volunteered to be encased in a bubble asked if she would suffocate. Carle assured her there would be plenty of air inside the bubble and that she would only be in there for a few seconds.
"There's one in Chicago and a couple guys in California, and that's about it when it comes to guys who do it full time," Carle said.
"Soap Bubbles can do amazing things for anyone," he says. "It just takes a little time to figure them out. Simple science will take you a long way, and experimentation will take you even further."
Carle does a lot of programs for elementary school children, using bubbles to teach science as he entertains. But his act appeals to audiences of all ages.
He performs in libraries, shopping malls, at banquets, science fairs, regional theaters and corporate events. His act brought a new dimension to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and he has been featured at the Lucille Ball Festival of New Comedy.
Carle has three secret formulas for his bubble solution. The one he uses depends on what he wants the bubbles to do. although he does not share his formulas with others, he does offer suggestions to would be bubble maniacs.
Carle adds glycerin - available in the skin care section of most pharmacies - to the soap solution to slow down the evaporation and add color to the bubbles.
If the humidity is high, glycerin isn't necessary, he said.
Carle said the secret to holding a bubble without popping it is using a wet hand. a dry hand will absorb water and make a hole in the bubble, but a wet hand, especially if it's soapy wet, can touch the wall of a bubble with out popping it.
By Anne Kymalainen
Fan Yang is in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the largest bubble ever blown. It had a circumference of more than seven feet. "I was 20 years old when I started, but I was dreaming of how to create a rainbow when I was seven or eight years old," says Yang. He creates rainbows through the art and science of blowing and making bubbles. He uses bubbles to educate children and adults on the amazing aspects of bubbles. "Bubbles are related to the universe, the layers of the bubbles, the colors, the light. I create the planets and float air inside by using physics. I make a bubble inside of a bubble and make it go in circles, which would not happen otherwise," says Fang, describing his love of bubble science.
Casey Carle got his start in bubbles through the circus, while clowning with the Ringling Bros. "A physical comedian, I was being told by senior clowns to do something well, not necessarily anything new," he says. "I was looking for something that would be entertaining that no one else had done. Once I realized that bubbles would be a hit with all ages in the audience, I worked on developing a routine with putting a kid inside a bubble." Carle says he thinks he is the first person ever to put a child inside of a bubble during the circus.
"I get the impression the moms love it just as much or more than the child. I can see it as a nice calming and relaxing thing to do with a young child. I also meet men anywhere from adult to grandpa age who always seem to be math types, or scientists, or computer people who like to approach bubbles as a science experiment or demonstration of nature's law and beauty." Carle would encourage you to try bubbles as a hobby. "It can only lift your spirits. If you work with soap bubbles, even doing simple tricks, you will brighten the day," he says.
