Will Nike Swoosh clouds become a common sight in the near future?
A special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has created giant ‘foam clouds’ shaped like corporate logos that can float up to 6000m into the air.
Francisco Guerra, who’s also a former magician, developed a machine that produces tiny bubbles filled with air and a little helium, forms the foam into shapes and pumps them into the sky.
Guerra’s company is working on a version that will spit out 6-foot clouds.
The foam is environmentally safe because it’s mostly water, air and a soapy agent that creates bubbles, Guerra says. Flogos pop just like bubbles and disappear when they hit a tree or building, sometimes leaving a powdery residue that blows away.
A single Flogo can travel as far as 30 miles and as high as 20,000 feet, Guerra says, and a machine can produce one every 15 seconds. Guerra says he could put a half-dozen machines together and fill the sky with almost any shape a company orders.
The official Flogo website has another video of the Flogos in action.
This post was written by bullets on May 14, 2008
