Bubble Wrap Day

‘Bubble wrap was invented in 1957 by engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes in Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA. Fielding and Chavannes sealed two shower curtains together, creating a smattering of air bubbles, which they originally tried to sell as wallpaper. When the product turned out to be unsuccessful as wallpaper, the team marketed it as greenhouse insulation. Although Bubble Wrap was branded by Sealed Air Corporation (founded by Fielding and Chavannes) in 1960, it was not until a year later that its use in protective packaging was discovered. As a packaging material, Bubble Wrap’s first client was IBM, which used the product to protect the IBM 1401 computer during shipment.

‘Fifty years later, Sealed Air has global revenues of more than $4 billion. Office Depot, for example, sells enough bubble each year to wrap around the Earth. Twice. “It seems like every day there’s something new being done with bubble wrap,” said Rohn Shellenberger, the company’s business manager for air cellular products. “It’s exploded since the year 2000. This whole phenomenon taking off has been a big surprise.” Sealed Air’s 100,000-square-foot warehouse, just off Interstate 80 about 15 miles west of Manhattan, is an obsessive-compulsive’s dream, with row upon row of stacked rolls of Bubble Wrap as big as seven feet in diameter.

‘The temperature is sweat-inducing, caused by the machines that process millions of granules of resin (one box is labeled “Munchy Resin”) into clear plastic sheets at temperatures up to 560 degrees. Shellenberger pops one myth about Bubble Wrap; namely, that air is injected into all those tiny bubbles. Instead, it is trapped between the sheets after they pass over several rollers, one of which creates the indentations for the bubbles.

‘Two apparently disparate forces conspired to shape Bubble Wrap’s growth: The advent of the transistor — and later the personal computer with all its accessories — which made the shipping of delicate electronic components a multibillion-dollar industry; and the Internet, which provided a forum for fanatics to swap stories and cement Bubble Wrap as a cultural icon. “The act of popping Bubble Wrap is a little indulgence in some small act of destruction that is neither dangerous nor offensive,” said Arthur Gallego, vice president of LaForce and Stevens, a marketing and trend firm in New York City. “It’s mindless.”‘ — collaged

 

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How Bubble Wrap Is Made

‘The whole process starts with resin pellets that are vacuumed into an extruder, which is extremely hot and melts the resin. Once the resin is made into a film, it’s put on rollers. From there, the film is vacuumed down and the air is trapped. Finally, the film goes through other rollers and cools, forming a bond so that the product has a flat backing with a bubbled topping.’

 

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Further

The Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors
‘let the hours waste away with the PERPETUAL BUBBLEWRAP!’
bubble wrap @ Sealed Air
Virtual bubble wrap simulator
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
Bubble Wrap Maniac
Nuclear Bubble Wrap
Guiness World Records: Most People Popping Bubble Wrap
‘Exam stress tackled by bubble wrap’
‘How to Make a Bubble Wrap Storm Window’
Bubble Wrap Calendar
‘The Stretchy Membrane That Could Replace Bubble Wrap’
‘Stay Away from Foil-Faced Bubble Wrap’
bradley hart’s injected bubble wrap paintings’
The Bubble Wrap Gene
The Official Bubble Wrap Club

 

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Sound

Binaural Recording (3D sound in headphones): Bubble Wrap and Scissors

Popping Bubble Wrap ~ Sounds by Sophie (Relaxing ASMR trigger sounds)

Sound of bubble wrap ASMR

 

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Stills

 

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Bradley Hart, artist

‘My work is an album of memories made by injecting bubble wrap with paint to create pixilated photorealistic pictures. The pictures are copies of both snap shots of important people captured by me or given to me and maintained as a part of my own personal photograph collection, as well as powerful images obtained from other sources.

‘To create the Bubble Wrap pieces I inject each bubble individually with acrylic paint, acutely aware of the exchange between paint and the air inside as one of those two elements displaces the other. As the paint is injected into a bubble the excess drips down the back of the piece. Upon completion of the injected work, the drippings are removed surgically from the backside of the plastic.’

 

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Darian Mederos, artist

‘Born in Cuba in 1992, Darian Mederos began painting portraits from the very beginning, becoming famous for his hyperrealistic style and rich in detail. Looking through something is one of the many fetishes that every artist has, using an obstacle makes the vision more intriguing and less obvious: that’s why Darian has created a series of works that use the expedient of sheets of bubble wrap. The contrast between the detailed hyperrealism and the visual approximation of the “blurred” that hides under the plastic bubbles, make Darian’s works unique.’

 

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Bubble wrap is everything

 

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My Bubble Wrap Bike

 

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Free Bubble Wrap Hugs

‘Not content with simply spreading the love by carrying a sign saying ‘free hugs’, Meir Kalmanson from AMK Productions instead opts to step out in New York City wearing a full-body suit made entirely out of bubble wrap – while brandishing his ‘free hugs’ poster.’

 

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Fucking bubble wrap hole and cumming on the table

 

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This designer made bubble-wrap clothing

‘As someone who regularly steps out in jeggings and pajama tops, I can’t claim to understand much about the world of fashion. But I’m not the only one doing a double take at the “bubble wrap” fashions designer Craig Green debuted during London Fashion Week.

‘The line of plastic menswear was unveiled as part of Green’s fall 2019 collection at London Fashion Week Men’s. The see-through outfits came in a range of bright candy colors and featured zig-zag and bubble-like patterns. In some cases, the outfits also included protective rain veils.’

 

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Etc.

TUTORIAL: BUBBLE WRAP CURLS!

How to use bubble wrap to insulate windows

Is It A Good Idea To Microwave Bubble Wrap?

Infinite Bubble Wrap Keychain Review (Mugen Puchi Puchi)

Destruction Boy: Bubble Wrap like a boss with a steam roller

How to add texture to your painting using bubble wrap

Bubble Wrap Hip-Hop-Pop

Bubble Wrap Machine

 

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