Impractical balloons for terrible children.
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I'm the mother flippin' Rhymenocerous My beats are fat and the birds are on my back And I'm horny (I'm horny) If you choose to proceed you will indeed concede 'Cause I hit you with my flow The Wild Rhino Stampede ~ The Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros Thinking back this time to participating in the Balloon Rhino Project - led by Guido Verhoef in 2016 to raise awareness and…
"In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence." ~ Robert Lynd This is my favorite bird design. The wings give it such a nice texture, and making them is bit of a challenge - which is exactly why I should build them again and again and again. This is also my favorite type of photo, 'balloon animals in the wild'. There's something about putting them in a real environment…
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." ~ Proverb You don't have to be smart to succeed. A book-on-tape on how to be successful in business made an observation that has stuck with me ever since. Looking back, it wasn't necessarily the people who had ranked high academically who had become most successful. Often, it was the opposite. The idea was that some…
MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF RIVERMARK FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIP Name: ____CEDRIC THE SMALL____________________ Teacher: ____MRS. WILLOW_________________________ Destination: ____MT. CINDERPEAK______________________ Purpose: ____SLAY DRAGON_________________________ Bringing Maiden? ☐ yes ☑ no ☐ I AM the maiden Next of Kin: ____FREDRIC THE TALL____________________ Lunch Provided? ☐ yes ☑ no Known…
They'll get you anything with that evil smile Everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial, well Hey, hey, I wanna be a Rockstar ~ Nickelback - Rockstar Tuftex Rockstar balloons are bad. Like the original bad, before it became cool. Rockstar isn't a color last I checked, and honestly 'pink chrome'? Be better, Tuftex. Be - better. I don't want to be "that guy", but these balloons are lousy to…
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin Today was obviously inspired by yesterday's gorillas. Geo balloons have been out of print for a while now, which has unfortunately made a number of older specialty balloon tutorials difficult to reproduce as originally taught. Matt Falloon used them in quite a…
"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep." ~ Clive Barker I have a dentist named Dr. Cheek. I sometimes wonder if he was fated to be a dentist with a name like that. I think the same think about Matt Falloon and balloons. Falloon, as his gym teacher used to call him, is an amazing craftsperson, artist, and all-around cool guy. And…
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." ~ Robert Collier I'm playing around again with the ideas behind the Isopresso butterfly and thought to try a monarch. I like how the upper wing turned out, but the curve on the lower wing probably needs another attempt or two. I considered using a bunch of puff inflates to outline the wings, but that felt like too much when it was…
"Hell is - other people!" ~ Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit Sartre was not simply saying other people were awful. He was talking about how being observed by others changes the way we see ourselves. Imagine you are alone in an elevator. You're not particularly thinking about anything - just leaning against the wall, picking at the crumbs on your shirt, quietly humming the song that's stuck in your head.…
Mushrooms don't grow simply because of the rain. Every autumn, when the rains have softened the earth, the Harvest Dancer returns. With each pirouette, hidden threads beneath the soil awaken. Tiny caps push through the forest floor in widening circles. Graceful steps coax clusters of mushrooms up through the moss, as if called to the dance in its wake. By dawn, the Harvest Dancer has vanished…
