Girls love unicorns, and over the years, I’ve made many different types using different balloons. Today, I share several unicorn head styles using hearts, LOL, and the standard 260 balloons. Over the years, I have learned that you don’t have to get too detailed with unicorns as long as the head is detailed and the … Read more
Unicorn, after Unicorn… that’s all I make when surrounded by a group of little girls. Over the years, I looked for shortcuts to making unicorns, just because they are a crowd favorite, and if you can save a step or two…you’ll get more balloon figures produced in a given time. Watch this video to show … Read more
How I Survive the Busy Season Over 33-years, I’ve been entertaining, and I have learned you have to keep in shape if you want to survive the busy season. From situps, pushups, and leg workouts, I’ve found keeping your body in shape makes a big difference. When I first started, I was a young guy … Read more
TEDxDePaul Goes Visual My phone rang, and it was Melissa from DePaul University wanting to know…”Are you up to it?” “Heck yeah!” – and the deal was set. I was a TEDx Visual Balloon Interpreter for the second time. The first time was November 7th, 2014, for TEDxNaperville, and now 2018, DePaul University TEDxDPU. The … Read more
How do you get to the next level of balloon entertainment? For me, it’s always been taking things one step at a time.
The frustration of Bad Audio ARG! The frustration of watching a video and realizing the audio is terrible. The video production is spot on, the speech content is precisely what the client wants, and I thought to myself, “This is going to be a great video.” Until I sit and watched the playback and realize … Read more
Being Creative with Balloons “The possibilities are endless” my college friend Bill would say. That saying has become an earworm that has never left my head. When the average person sees a balloon, I wonder what their first thought is? An over perfective mother might say “Choking hazard,” a father may say, “A creative toy,” … Read more
Thirty years entertaining and I’m still tweaking how to get people to dig deep into their pockets and pull out cash. I use a tip badge, comedic banter along with a clear tip bag showing people I’m more than willing to take their disposable money for the exchange of a balloon animal. I recently read … Read more
What makes you different from all the others? That is the question that I and maybe you have struggled with when asked by marketing people to define your balloon business. For me, it was how I described myself. In my mind, I see the balloon entertainment industry in three sectors. Balloon Decorators Balloon Artists Balloon … Read more
Exposing Myself with Balloons Have you ever mentally planned out a meeting in your head and when it happens it’s nothing like you expected? Well, that is what happened to me. In August, I reached out to a TEDx producer, who I worked with before, and pitched him an idea. The idea was based on … Read more