Don Komarechka’s beautiful short film, “Winter’s Magic,” captures the beauty of soap bubbles as they freeze. It’s a delicate process and one difficult to capture in video. The bubble freezes first at the bottom, where it touches the cold surface – in this case, snow. That freezing releases latent heat and creates a temperature gradient along the thin liquid film. With that temperature gradient comes a variation in surface tension, and it’s this that creates the flow that lifts the ice crystals from the surface and turns the bubble into a snow globe. Eventually, as the frozen crystals continue growing, flow in the bubble walls comes to halt as the film solidifies.
Hey so I made this wand in the summer and totally forgot to post about it.
It’s made from a willow tree, the wand had been sanded, stained, and anointed with rosemary oil; I did some wood burning along the entire length of the wand and laid copper over top as it is a great metal for conducting energy. Then I got an array of Crystal’s (some which I already had) and glued/attached them on the bottom, top and along the handle. All of which was done by hand by me.
I wanted this wand to sort of represent me, I am a very firey person in all aspects including when it comes to magick and I wanted that to come across, but I also wanted it to be kind of a combo of fire and spirit.
