Menu

Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Show posts Menu

Topics - Travis M

#1
Latex Laughs / funny moment
April 07, 2014, 12:48:52 PM
Alright so I was in Detroit (my home town) not too long back and ran into a friend Nick who's an artist as well and we decided to work a fair they have every year in muskegon called the summer celebration. We decided to stand side by side and do balloons in what we termed as a Race to 100, first person to reach 100 dollars making balloons wins. Anyway, nick realized quickly that by self inflating and not using a pump I was racing ahead. What's a balloon artist (and 10 year smoker) to do? He decides he's gonna self inflate the balloons as well. So I'm carrying on and out of the corner of my eye I see nick inflating a white 160, his face bright red and then purple and he's going, going, gone! Straight over backward to the grass, never tried to catch himself. He hadn't self inflate balloons in 5 years, and in the 24 degree heat had been drinking red bull and no water and passed out. What did I do? I grabbed him, drug him into the shade, made a penguin hat with the phrase, keep cool, on it and put it on him then left him with the paramedics and I went back to twisting. 30 minutes later he came back (after two IV fluid bags to combat his dehydration) and started using the pump again. I didn't have the heart to tell him in that thirty minutes I'd managed the 100 already. But I bought us lunch at Someplace Else Pizza just so he didn't feel too bad.

-T
#2
Picture Gallery / Big Balloon Dragon!!!
May 11, 2012, 11:10:43 PM
Made this tonight for a big piece table display. He's about seven and a half foot long and his wing span is about four foot wide. There is a little lootle knight to go with it with is cool.

-t
#3
Balloon Tutorial & Help / balloon Lollipop help
March 28, 2012, 06:33:45 AM
Hey guys, just curious if anyone has ever made one of these and if they wouldn't mind helping me? I have looked everywhere and haven't been able to find anything on how they are made. Anyone help?

-t

http://balloonblingit.files.wordpress.c ... /photo.jpg

sorry G.
#4
Balloon Tutorial & Help / Balloon arch Question
December 02, 2011, 10:21:54 AM
Hiya twisters,

Not sure if any of you have done many arches but I was thinking of expanding to doing them myself. Now I have made a couple of them using helium and ribbon with weights at either end but these are expensive to sell (cost effective for me at 120 cshells). But most of that is for the helium. So I have a friend and long time artist who suggested I use tent poles...the big fiberglass tent poles. I thought that this was a good idea but and having trouble with the length of the tentpoles I will need for a single arch. Can anyone help? I'm thinking 18ft would make a decent 7ft arch but might need to go as far as 24ft worth.

The Arch I mean-
http://www.balloonaticasylum.com/web_im ... n_arch.jpg

-t
#5
Picture Gallery / Some of my recent figures
October 23, 2011, 12:07:17 PM
Hello everyone, thought I post some photos for you all. :) Hope you like them... the bi-plane I made from looking at a picture found on google. The F1 car I designed myself. Ferb was a self design but I have been told it resembles someone elses.

Flowers:

Formula one car:

Ferb from Disney's Phinias and Ferb:

My first ever weave project (a bi-plane):

My halloween skull:

Yoda! (as seen from a picture on balloon-animals.com):

The car again (just so you can better see the size):
#6
Welcome / Howdy
October 11, 2011, 10:07:40 PM
Hello guys. Just thought a stop in and say hi seeing as I badgered Graham into getting an account. I'm Travis or Twisted and I'm a twister in Edinburgh. Good to meet you all. :)