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Location: NYC, NY, USA
So me and this guy are putting these go go dancers inside of balloons all evening... They're huge 7 foot balloons. I think they might be weather balloons but I'm not sure. Anyway, half way through the evening I'm like... "I wanna get in the balloon!"... and so I do.
And it was THE MOST FUN EVER!
I spun poi inside the balloon for about 10 minutes (there was apparently plenty of air). I CANNOT tell you how much fun it was to be in the balloon. It's like a million degrees and the balloon quickly starts to fog up as sweat is dripping off of you. It's totally intense. Then spinning glowpoi that I got in Scotland (Thank you Molly!) ... the crowd said it looked AWESOME. [Not bragging, I didn't make the glowpoi or the balloon... I just used em]... I wish I could have seen it but I did manage to get some very strange but very cool looking photos. Check out my member gallery....
Here!
The second one is me inside the balloon... scantily clad and in partial makeup... the rest are blurry and artistic cuz they're time lapse.
If you ever have a chance to go in a balloon... do it. Trust me. And if you can, bring a friend, that was fun too... (no photos of that though...)
Am I the first to poi in a balloon? Does that make me the "International Poi in a Balloon Champion"?
Swweeeeeet!
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
That's WAY COOOOOOL
Envy...yes...envy!
Oi....massive headache...I'm going to go crawl in a corner now.
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Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Looks like you're stuck inside a giant Durex - but cool
Burner of Toast
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Slacker of enormous magnitude
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
I can't seem to enlarge the photos enough to actually see you...there's a balloon, and it looks like there's something, probably a person, inside, but that's all I can see.
Some of the timelapse ones clearly show spinning, and it looks awesome, but I still can't see the person.
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
Perhaps it was a normal sized balloon and NYC trained a hamster to spin poi and gave it gloves to make the hand prints and... and... and... :flop:
...but Coo!
you really were in a balloon
but why weren't you spinning plates?
ps. did those go go dancers want to be put in balloons all evening or were you being mean?
*wanders away happily saying ballOOn to herself over and over
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Looks amazing!
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Yeah, I can't see them that well, either. They're post stamp size.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Yeah... the originals are better quality.
And yes, it did feel like I was in a large condom.
And no, the go go dancers were done after a few minutes. It's pretty exhausting sweating non-stop. I've honestly never sweat so much in my life. And I'm not a sweaty guy by nature.
I'll see if I can bump up the resolution later... gotta go teach.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
Very cool - but how did you get in[/] the balloon?? and did you pop it to get out?
the hand pic's really weird - makes me think of those colour pics of babies growing in the womb....
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I wanna see NYC scantily clad!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
I must admit that was part of my motivation as well...that's lookie, no touchie, NYC.
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
558 posts
Location: wales
Wow!
very cool.
Lucky you.
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Sleep where it's dry
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Gabriel King - The Wild Road
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
To get in the balloon... it was just inflated with an airpump and then the hole is stretched open and you climb in quick before it deflates. It's tough to get in and it helps having two other people holding the mouth of the balloon open for you. The thing is, as you're getting in, you're blocking the air from escaping too quickly.
It didn't make sense to me either... until I was inside. Well, it still didn't make sense, but at least I believed it was possible. To get out, I just climbed out the hole again (it had been taped shut with electrical tape.) Since the balloons are aparently $15 each we didn't want to pop it every time... though we did pop a few that night. LOUDASS bang too.
Oh, and I was really just in an undershirt and boxer briefs. I'm glad I took my own advice for partying...
"Always wear nice underwear to a party."
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
At least NYC finally got an avatar out of it.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Must fight urge to make jokes about someone with a big Head covered in latex!
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Patrick, honey. It's too cheap. Even *I* didn't take the opportunity.
Don't worry, lord knows there are ample opportunities to make fun of NYC.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
You can call it making fun but I sense some balloon envy. You can't all be as pretty as me you know.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Well, I for one admit you are much prettier than I am!
Sporadically Prodigal
2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
That's so cool! I had a very similar idea last week. For some strange reason, I subjected myself to watching the MTV Music Video Awards (I don't have cable, so my options were limited. Honest!). One of the presenters rolled over the audience in one of these balloons and I decided that I'm gonna get me some and organise a glow staff/ poi routine on water with 3 balloons...
EDIT: Is there any chance you can find out where they sourced the balloons?
POST-EDIT: Don't worry - I found where I can buy them!
EDITED_BY: flash fire (1097199841)
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9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
You can't really see all that well with them...
They float? Holy crap I guess they would...
That would be COOL!
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Sporadically Prodigal
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Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
The one on MTV was clear and a lot bigger than the one you were in, it seems.
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Ah yes... MTV probably has more than $15 to spend on them.
It'd be tough to refil them with air (which you need to do every so often so you don't die) if they were out on a lake....
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Sporadically Prodigal
2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
I've found an Austrian site that sells 2m ones for 45 euros. Now, if I could only justify spending AUD$75 on a friken balloon, I'd be laughing!! How do you blow them up? Reverse vacuum cleaner? I reckon that the 2 metre ones would have sufficient air to last for a 10 minute performance on water plus say 2 mins either side for portage etc.... What do you think, science guy?
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Running hippy spinning lemming
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Location: Scotland
Wow thats so cool NYC!
Water floating balloons and poi...
But once you've got inside, floated out onto the water, used all your energy spinning, nearly run out of air....
....how do you get back to shore????
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Location: Southern California, USA
poi in balloons... yes, i see it... it's... the future(-ture-ture-ure-ure-ure)!
props for doing something that's so damn cool it makes me say damn... that's so damn cool
Clean for 6 months and counting... ah yeah, that's nice.
Sporadically Prodigal
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....how do you get back to shore????
A tether?
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Running hippy spinning lemming
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A tether?
I see.... sorry i had an image of balloons rolling out across lake, kinda like zorbing without the hill, so thought a tether might get tangled....
i guess not.... craziness.... i love it!
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9,232 posts
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[Insert obscure 'Prisoner' comment about large 'Rover' balloons guarding the exit from the island here.]
I am not a number!!!
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
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Location: Wales
are you a giant hamster?
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9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
No. My claws would pop the balloon silly.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
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Location: Wales
Good thinking Batman!........ unless you were a hamster wearing thick leather gloves!
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