Balloon Animals

The secret to why their are less Christmas Parties each year. Over the past few years the holiday parties are becoming so politically correct that fewer and fewer companies are having them.  Not only are the parties becoming difficult to plan, but the bad economy  it’s helping. Take a look at what HR has to deal with [...]

Ask any professional balloon entertainer if they have every used a twisting balloon to repair something and you will get a “Yes”.  Twisting balloons, which main purposes is for twisting balloon animals, have adapted to many other uses. While performing, the brass nozzle connected to my electric balloon pump became lose.  I grabbed a twisting [...]

If your an Airhead, then check out he new hairstyle you can be wearing this summer. While balloon entertaining  at the Grand Reopening of a Jewel/Osco store  in Chicago, Pantene hair products was next to me doing a hair demonstration.  So, being the clever balloon-dude that I am–I made a balloon person and we added hair [...]

While twisting balloon animals at a restaurant, a customer will turn to a friends and say, “Hey, Bob that’s a job for you, twisting balloons animals.” What did I do to give them the impression that my skills were so common that a layman can just pickup a bag of balloons and twist animals?  Yes, [...]

Balloon animals are getting so popular that you can find people making iPhone apps which are pretty cool. You can find people knitting used bags from balloons. While bloggers post videos of simple Durex condoms balloon animals going at it,  many people forget the beauty in balloon animals. This balloon artist likes to take the simple balloon [...]

Businesses spend hundreds to thousands of dollars each year branding their telephone number with catchy songs to anagram phone numbers.  These telephone numbers try to associate a product, service or company name to the telephone number. But, with the introduction of Smartphone’s designed for text messaging and emailing, are these phones working against the vanity [...]

I’m amazed at how much time is spent just keeping up with information that is coming across my desk. My email box is overflowing with email messages, my voice mail is flashing, text message are pinging my phone, and my Facebook and MySpace inboxes have friend requests waiting to be accepted. I find myself contently writing, [...]

Bring the family out to see Magical Balloon-dude Dale at Choo Choo Johnny’s of Frankfort, IL.  Choo Choo Johnny’s is a family-oriented restaurant with a theme that is popular among the children and adults: model trains! Kids will sit at the counter and watch the train travel around the counter delivering food to customers.  Magical [...]

The art of balloon twisting distorts an individual’s perspective of life and their environment.  Many times we see daily objects as cylindrical spheres, connected by a string of balloon bubbles. This happened to me this past Christmas season when I was making mint chocolate chip cookies.  Each cookie became a balloon bubble and each one [...]

A friend sent me this and as a person who works for tips, found it interesting, but also scary in concept. Here’s the story… Today  on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read  “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed. Once in  the restaurant my server had on a “Obama [...]