I know its basically impossible with most substances/food due to the cost and the fact that things can expire and go bad but I like to imagine things like sinking into something really thick like peanut butter or cake frosting. I know gunge dunk tanks are sort of what im talking about but everyone I have seen yet is way to watery for my liking. What do you guys/gals think? Am I the only one fantasies about this?
I would absolutely love to do something like that! Having a giant pit of molasses or frosting sounds amazing. I did discuss doing this once as a collaboration with another producer but the cost would be pretty insane and you could only use it for a short period of time before having it go bad. If anyone happens to have a lot of disposable income and wants to see this please marry me, I mean contact me
The cheapest way I can think of making this is doing something similar to the oobleck that MPV uses. Dig a hole, fill it with non-newtonian fluids. I'm guessing cornstarch and water would be the cheapest. Put as much batter, jello, whatever you want your mess to be towards the top to make the ENTIRE thing look like it's just a WAM puddle.
Now, you can slowly sink, AND have a pool of whatever substance.
Bonus, it's outside, so you can let rain do it's work for clean up. Also, if you add a bunch of salt it should sterilize it and keep things from growing.
Potatoman-J said: The cheapest way I can think of making this is doing something similar to the oobleck that MPV uses. Dig a hole, fill it with non-newtonian fluids. I'm guessing cornstarch and water would be the cheapest. Put as much batter, jello, whatever you want your mess to be towards the top to make the ENTIRE thing look like it's just a WAM puddle.
Now, you can slowly sink, AND have a pool of whatever substance.
Bonus, it's outside, so you can let rain do it's work for clean up. Also, if you add a bunch of salt it should sterilize it and keep things from growing.
MPV uses a proprietary mix of oobleck but it's close enough. It's relatively inexpensive, sort of. You better have a place where you can leave it because a few days after use it turns into concrete. Then it turns into foul smelling concrete. Mixing the stuff requires a God-awful amount of manual labor if you're going to get it right and that doesn't include making whatever kind of hole or container you want to put it in. Being a non-newtonian fluid it also hangs on to you or reacts to pressure by becoming almost solid. I can honestly say from personal experience that trying to pull my hairy legs out of the stuff was not fun as it clung tenaciously to each hair.
DuncanEdwards said: Being a non-newtonian fluid it also hangs on to you or reacts to pressure by becoming almost solid. I can honestly say from personal experience that trying to pull my hairy legs out of the stuff was not fun as it clung tenaciously to each hair.
Potatoman-J said: The cheapest way I can think of making this is doing something similar to the oobleck that MPV uses. Dig a hole, fill it with non-newtonian fluids. I'm guessing cornstarch and water would be the cheapest. Put as much batter, jello, whatever you want your mess to be towards the top to make the ENTIRE thing look like it's just a WAM puddle.
Now, you can slowly sink, AND have a pool of whatever substance.
Bonus, it's outside, so you can let rain do it's work for clean up. Also, if you add a bunch of salt it should sterilize it and keep things from growing.
I almost did that this summer now that I have a space to do it but it's still a huge expense to set up, mostly because I live in New England and would have to hire someone for tree/brush removal and then get an excavator to dig a hole since our soil is 90% rocks
Probably many of you have seen this, but here was a try at a peanut butter bath. I'm guessing that Leila wants the vertical experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIbTtcK47lg
What about a large garbage can with cake batter? I'm guessing about $300 worth of batter.
What I'd love to try - petroleum jelly. And one can buy industrial size barrels of it. But then how would you get rid of it?
Leila said: I would absolutely love to do something like that! Having a giant pit of molasses or frosting sounds amazing. I did discuss doing this once as a collaboration with another producer but the cost would be pretty insane and you could only use it for a short period of time before having it go bad. If anyone happens to have a lot of disposable income and wants to see this please marry me, I mean contact me
For you, I would buy a barrel of nutella for you to sink down up to your neck.
Leila said: If anyone happens to have a lot of disposable income and wants to see this please marry me, I mean contact me
What about crowdfunding? I'd gladly chip in
Crowdfunding will work the first time somebody comes up with an actual plan. Who is in charge and takes responsibility for executing this? What exactly are we going to do? Is everyone happy with that? What producer will do it? Group effort? Who will organize that? All those questions and more need to be answered first and then the funding issue might work. Otherwise it just becomes one more suggestion that never happens.
Leila said: If anyone happens to have a lot of disposable income and wants to see this please marry me, I mean contact me
What about crowdfunding? I'd gladly chip in
Crowdfunding will work the first time somebody comes up with an actual plan. Who is in charge and takes responsibility for executing this? What exactly are we going to do? Is everyone happy with that? What producer will do it? Group effort? Who will organize that? All those questions and more need to be answered first and then the funding issue might work. Otherwise it just becomes one more suggestion that never happens.
I don't see why it should be any more complicated than a usual custom video, the only difference is the producer pitches their idea to us instead of the other way round. Take Leila's suggestion for example, a giant pit of molasses or frosting. I'd pay to see that, as I'm sure many others would. If enough people were interested and could raise the money needed then it would get made just like any of her other videos.
I guess with any crowdfunded video you're not gonna please everyone as far as substance, outfits etc. go, but I think if producers let us vote on these things before any funding then at least most people would be happy.
Another cheaper option would be to use substances that float. For example, a hot tub with a few inches of whipped cream or even shaving foam floating on top, preferably colored. Chocolate mousse would also float, as would any other mousse, due to the air bubbles. A little experimenting and imagination could result in a deep pool of water with enough floating messy material to make it look like the pool is filled with just the messy substance.