From mainfram!raymond.bowers@clark.net Thu Sep 15 20:32:13 1994 Received: from clarknet.clark.net by mother.ent.rochester.edu with SMTP id AA27370 (5.65/IDA-1.4.4 for /usr/local/lib/lists/balloon.archive); Thu, 15 Sep 1994 20:32:13 -0400 Received: by clarknet.clark.net (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA16843; Thu, 15 Sep 1994 20:28:11 +0500 >Received: by mainfram (PCBuucp 2.0) with UUCP id 3CCDBD; Thu, 15 Sep 94 19:10:09 -0500 To: balloon@mother.ent.rochester.edu Subject: Introduction From: raymond.bowers@wdn.com (Raymond Bowers) Message-Id: <6f.14914.1700@wdn.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 14:46:00 -0500 Organization: World Data Network, Inc. Since 1984. Telnet wdn.com. Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3973 LM> that can answer your questions or benefit from your suggestions. You may LM> wish to introduce yourself to the list to let us all know what level LM> you're at and any other interesting facts there are to know about you. Hmmmm . . . Well first off, I should probably say that I have never used a list server or whatever, so if I make a mistake, please let me know! I am getting newsgroup and e-mail gatewayed through a BBS, and I use an off-line mail reader, so I am not always sure if everything gets through properly . . . Hi Folks! I am Ray. I got into balloon sculpting through Juggling. Seems like every juggling festival i go to there are thousands of balloons laying around and usually a work shop. I've been juggling (just a hobby) for a couple of years. Last year, i picked up a small book at The Juggling Capitol in Washington DC and really got into it. We actually have quite a few people here in the Baltimore/DC area who do this quite a bit for side jobs. I did for a bit, but, let's face it, computer programming pays just a little more . . . If you want to try and get a larger audience for this list, someone should post about it in rec.juggling and maybe ask that info on it be added to the Juggling Information Server (JIS) (http://www.hal.com/services/juggle). I am sure lots of jugglers would be interested in knowing about this. Anyways, I'm 26, I juggle, play around with baloons, make chain mail, hop around internet, and wonder who god was talking to when he said "Let there be light." (I just really wonder about people who constantly talk to themselves...). I don't know what else to say. I don't know what discussions are like here and I've never tried to describe how to make a baloon animal in a message. Hmmm . . . I'll try one. I just learned how to do a lady bug bracelet recently. It is a cute, simple little thing that fits on a kid's wrist well . . . Inflate a baloon about 3.0 inches inches. Make a twist about 2 inches in from the end. The thing may look approximately (with a lot of help from your imagination), like this : ___ __ { X }=================== --- -- Now, take the second bubble from the left and make three twists in it to make it into 4 small bubbles. ___ _ _ _ _ { X X X X }=================== --- - - - - ^ | Fold the thing in half between the 4 small bubbles just made (as pointed to above) to get the following below. (a)| v ___ _ _ (c) { X X > --- - - | _ _ | (d) ==============={ X > - - ^ (b)| Now, twist together the first twist (a) you made way back innumerable steps ago and the tail (b) as pointed to above. At this point, I can't think of a way to draw it. The four little bubbles are now all connected in a little 2 by 2 square. These are the four feet of the bug. Fold the largest (first) bubble over and using the knot in the end (c), tie it to the twist between the two feet on the opposit side (d). ____ (____) /(_)(_)\ Take the long tail, tie it to (d) also and that it the strap / \ that goes on a person's wrist. From the side, it looks like | | this (again, very sort of, kind of). The lady bug is the | | 5 bibbles at the top (2 are hidden). The uninflated baloon \------/ is the wrist strap. Anyways. It is cute, quick and a kid can wear it! That's important because if they have to carry a balloon, it will either get popped or a parent will have to end up carrying it within 15 minutes . . . I am just barely an intermediate sculptor. I look forward to hearing from others and seeing what you can do. Anyone know how to do Barney? I want to be able to make one and then CRUSH HIM! TTYL! raymond.bowers@wdn.com --- ~ OLX 2.2 ~ A single fact can spoil a good argument