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Uncategorized Boards => Events. Balloon, Magic, Etc => Topic started by: Graham Lee on December 01, 2016, 08:57:59 PM
I'm going over to hamburg next year for the Hamburg Balloon Jam, the dates are 7th/9th Nov
I'm travelling on the sunday 5th and returning Friday 10th
this is not an organised trip, I'm just letting you all know so if you wanted to come along.
going on last years prices, all in euros
registartion 240
food, full board 23 a day
room 40 single and 20 if you share
so approx 555 euros for a single room all in for 5 nights
any questions then please fire away.
Registration opens on the 16th Jan.
I'm travelling out on Sunday 5th Nov and returning Friday 10th.
This is not an organised tour, I will just add details as I get them and flight times etc
so that others can book the same itinerary if they wish.
You can now book online for the Hamburg Jam.
I have registered and so have a couple of others from the UK.
Don't forget the venue is in the middle of nowhere and the rooms onsite do sell out.
http://balloon-jam-hamburg.com/index-english.html (http://balloon-jam-hamburg.com/index-english.html)
A little teaser for the event, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPpJZc ... ture=share (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPpJZcGcCI&feature=share)
We are off on Monday to the Hamburg jam with Caroline, Susie and Amanda.
Looking forward to it as I think it's possibly 5 years since I was at Eurojam.
Just back from the Hamburg jam, good to see the forum was well busy while I was away, he he
Thanks to Sandra and Andreas for organising the event, it's much appreciated by many.
I will start to post the pictures from the event as soon as I can,
it did take over 5 minutes to download them all onto my computer so there are a few.
Here are a few pictures, you will see some with peoples names written on.
The idea is if you see a model you like you can find the person in
the jam room and they can help you make the model.
Off on our travels, it was a laugh. We did get a few perks with helping Caroline.
We missed a few queue's.
Then we were concerned if we would find our cab driver Moh at Hamburg airport.
As you can see there was not a problem in wondering who he was.
The first person twisting that we saw was Linda "T" from Germany.
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Sam Cremeens was very busy in the jam room.
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The theme for this year was Space and Aliens.
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I like the way Kerstin and Moh are in the picture working away behind the bar.
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The outer ring of the space ship did change colour 3/4 times.
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The space man and his sputnik landing craft.
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A better view.
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It's still the space/alien theme.
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Linda T's pug, Sam's bow and arrow and guessing that Sam also made Yoda.
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I mad the reindeer and cat.
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More from around the jam room, Simon made the mouse and cat.
Tobi Twist has the alien on his shoulder.
If you can check out his youtube channel as it's a little querky and interesting.
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I was having a play with some hair design.
The shoes turned out nice, well I was pleased.
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Linda T with her Fox and then Irmgard, my Dutch wife.
When you see me ask me to tell you the story of how this came about.
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Sam, Tony and I think Aneka.
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More balloons from around the jam room.
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And some more.
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Simon made the person/clown, Linda T the fox and
not sure but think Haka from Hungary made the alien man.
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A picture of Koen, we go way back to TMJ days.
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The first motorbike of the jam that I saw.
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The bike all finished and next to the food counter.
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A little film from the Hamburg Jam,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiXZTRG ... ture=share (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiXZTRGlylI&feature=share)
My bedroom for the duration.
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The venue was something like a Christian retreat.
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Designs pinned up around the room.
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Sputnik on the ceiling?
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Hamburg 2017
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The official opening by Andreas and Sandra.
Then it was onto the workshops.
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Sam's star wars workshop.
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Then it was onto Toby's workshop, he was very well prepared with slide show and designs.
The motley crew at the back of the workshop causing havoc ;)
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Tobi and his first workshop.
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Frank did a decorating class that I popped in to take a few pictures.
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I think this was meant to start out as a shark but ended up looking more dolphin,
that I was playing about with.
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Sam's first workshop in Hamburg.
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I changed the shark/dolphin a little.
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The mouth/nose was connected with a side wall bubble.
I made a lot more elaborate head for the sausage dog, it made it look way too big.
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I was trying a bigger body on the hippo but the head was then too small.
So went for a different style head.
Simon made the snow leopard.
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I sat and had lunch with Andreas and Sandra who put on the event.
Andreas was a little hungry for the pudding at the end.
Sabina's quick link class.
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I believe this was Simon's little mouse.
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The end of Sam's star wars workshop and all the left designs.
I'm taking a picture of Irmgard taking a picture of something else.
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Then it was off to Pascal and his 57 ways to make a minion.
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Balloons around the venue.
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It was then back to the decorating class.
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More decorating.
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Still more decorating.
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Still at the decorating workshop.
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The dog Simon Jong made was stunning, there is another one
to be poste later that is possibly even more stunning.
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The dog from a different view.
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From around the jam room.
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More from the jam room.
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Someone was demo'ing decorating units for rounds.
They also set up along the balloons for using in the jam room
some compression inflators to use.
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Sam making his bike, he is hiding and my Fox up-scaled to use 350's.
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Sam finishing off the big bike and Simon with his police style motor bike.
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Linda T with her workshop and the girls at the back of the class again.....
causing trouble?
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Linda's workshop was busy.
I then popped into Andrea's distortion workshop for a while.
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From Andrea's distortion workshop.
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Then it was back to the decorating workshops.
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Back to the motorbikes.
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From around the jam room.
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Pictures galore, well three more.
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On the first picture, the design on the left was one of the hits of the jam room.
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You got a better light for taking pictures out in the hallway
on top of the cigarette machine.
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More designs from around the jam room.
Comparing snail designs.
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Pictures, pictures.
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You can see the difference in the lighting with the two croc pictures
from the jam room to the top of the cigarette machine in the hallway.
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The lounge section of the jam room.
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More about the jam room.
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There are still so many pictures to post.
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More from around the jam room.
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I think these were taken bright and early one morning, possibly day two.
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I liked the construction of the teddy.
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Alf that a few of us made for Tobi's youtube channel, I will look for the link.
The link to Alf, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8tIHFPXQ0&t=30s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8tIHFPXQ0&t=30s)
I liked the spiral for the lower legs on this design.
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Hamburg was fun, I enjoyed it.
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Sam taking it easy.
Playing about with my car design.
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Then it was onto the workshop from my favourite Dutchman :) ;)
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It was on about using different techniques for the same designs.
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I had another play with the rocket.
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The accommodation was a little like at The Millennium Jam where the bungalows go
1023, 543, 89. In no order what so ever.
This is my room, number 96 and where should I find it?
Yes next to number 91.
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It was then into Sabina's second workshop with weaving and quick links.
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Big Steve taking a picture of the sea horse.
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Sabina's workshop.
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Simon finished his rocket.
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Having a play with some of the designs.
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Then it was back to Andrea for her second workshop on space.
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Andrea is a laugh and a little bit quirky...............which I like xx
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More from Andrea.
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Then it was back to Sam Cremeen's second workshop.
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It was funny watching the guys twist the trunk for the elephant,
there were a few comments...............not sure why ;)
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Andrea having a lot of fun in her workshop.
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The balloon popped and self sealed, I have had a few do this to me over the years.
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Still in Andrea's workshop.
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Still in Andrea's workshop.
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The camel was a fun design.
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This was possibly my favourite design of the convention made by Simon Jong.
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I then took some pictures of it outside.
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Then it was Tobi's second workshop,
I did pop my head in but the room was a little small and it was absolutely packed.
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It was then tank time.
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As they were getting ready for the gala show the jam room was moved
out into the hallway.
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Elephant, tusks, no tusks.
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Then it was a quick look in at the décor workshop,
these were going on all through the convention.
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The Christmas walkway finished.
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Some pictures from Tobias workshop.
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The bag was very interesting.
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I was attempting to make a shoe, as you can guess I gave up.
We then came to the gala show, now what can I say about this?
It was good the way some put chairs on tables to get a better view.
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As the whole show was in German I did not have too much of a clue as to
what was going on. There was some laughter and the magic acts you could follow
some of the time so I think It's better for others to make comment on this than I.
This is Tom Bola the compere.
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Just wanted to say thank you Graham for always being on hand with your camera, I managed to find 20 mins today and thought i'd check through the pictures. It looks like it was a lot of fun over there :)
Quote from: "KJ Entertainments"Just wanted to say thank you Graham for always being on hand with your camera, I managed to find 20 mins today and thought i'd check through the pictures. It looks like it was a lot of fun over there :)
Thanks Dan, I think Susie, Caroline, Amanda and myself enjoyed it.
More pictures.
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More from the gala show.
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Still the gala show.
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The final line up at the end of the gala show.
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Another picture of Irmgard my Dutch wife, it came from a very funny line when
I lectured for Leo in Belgium............one of those memory things.
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Pictures from around the venue.
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More from the jam room.
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The Hamburg jam was fun and if you get a chance to attend then I would say definitely do it.
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A couple of simon jong designs.
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There was also a couple of basic balloon modelling class's people could attend.
The three musketeers getting ready for Andrea's workshop.
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Linda's second workshop, that man of mystery hiding behind a wall.
I wonder why he was hiding :) It was funny.
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Still playing around with the engine section of the rocket.
I think I used Antonio's pinch line for this one.
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Having a play about.
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Adding the two ideas together.
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The balloons for the gala meal later in the day.
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Post Andrea workshop.
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Then it was onto Pascal's second workshop on how not to make money twisting.
This is designs that take so long to make it transcends over into true art form.
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I have seen Pascal lecture 4/5 or maybe 6 times and he most definitely did
go and show some new techniques this time around.
Well worth sitting in on the session.
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These pictures can only be from one persons workshop.
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And the previous workshop in the room was Sabina's with the flower designs.
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It made us smile, the ramp for wheelchair access leads straight to the flight of stairs.
What could possibly go wrong.
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Back to the decorating workshops.
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Last few from the decorating workshops.
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There were some designs up and around the venue that made us have a good laugh.
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There was a slight change of plan in the schedule and Koen and his lady side kick
whose name escapes me at the moment stepped in to run a workshop.
It was funny and worked well.
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Then it was onto the elephant design.
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And then the duck.
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I then had a play with a table design.
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A variation on the table design.
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We are getting to the end of the pictures for the Hamburg Jam.
Just a few more to post.
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Amanda offering me a beer at the gala night.
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It was then off to jam in the hallway.
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I was playing with the hearts and got no further.
Amanda started to play with the green hearts as well.
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We then had a go at making the worse balloon.
I was trying to cover the print on the heart balloon.
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Playing about late at night.
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Antonio made a nice bike and I was playing with distorting a heart.
The local railway station on the way home.
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The last of the pictures, thanks to my travel companions, Amanda, Caroline and Susie.
I think we all had a fun time?
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