Snow, not risotto

Does anyone out there know where I can get hold of fake snow, you know the type they use in shopping centre christmas displays, the kind that sticks to you and your still finding the stuff on your clothes until the next christmas. Well thats the cheap and nasty version I guess, but any version will do.
Any ideas. Needed within the week.


Catherine Mc

Would packing styrofoam be suitable? If you're not too proud to scavence, you could approach any manufacturing company and ask their despatch department for any spare stuff they've got lying about in boxes. The small stuff passes quite well as snow, but it's a bugger to sweep up!

Sol

If it's just for display purposes (ie; is not falling from the sky) I'm sure there's an aerosol product available- sort of "Blizzard in a Tin" kinda deal. Ashton & Admore, or equivalent production companies should be able to point you in the more sensible direction. Just don't use soap flakes- they can cause blindness!!

Eliot

Styrofoam tends to stick to stick to things as well - clothes, hair, naked bums (only if used in Don's Party). And as Sol said, it's a bugger to sweep up.

Pamela.

Catherine?
Is that you?
I thought you'd fallen off the face of the earth - I haven't seen you for months!

Someone once told me that a fun way to make it was to feed plastic shopping bags through a paper shredder.

"I know snow when I see it! It's all we've had to eat for the past three days!"

JB

Many years ago I used to make artificial snow using a CIG bottle of liquid CO2, hospital grade as it had a tube that ran down to the bottom of the cyclinder so that liquid CO2 came out and not the gas, and fed that through a bunsen burner nozzle with a large gas flame size. The end effect was snow flakes made by the liquid CO2 causing the air vapours freezing and coming down as seperate flakes. It is a noisy process but I was using it for effects lighting for bands so we had something coming down. Usually used with a high powered strobe or chasers.
It wont work for dressing a set and we did not have OS&H in those days (mid 70's in Newcastle).
What about the spray cans of snow used for xmas decorations or do you need a snow drift?
Connections magazine Nov 1997 had fog machines reviewed but I cant access it with my web browser.
Oswald Sealy Visual Concepts used to supply an artificial snow but don't anymore. It was made by shedding soft plastic bags, crumpled to look like snow.