20-foot balloon dinosaur at the Virginia Museum of Natural History

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By Eugenia Viti in New Trends on Thursday 9 May 2013

That’s right, some wonderfully talented and imaginative people teamed up with school kids to make a twenty foot balloon Acrocanthosaurus for display at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Using a real skeleton of the dinosaur as a guide, they tried to make it as realistic as possible. However, nobody really knows what their skin [...]

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The Art of Video Painting: new work by Steve Carr

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By Dawn Schuck in New Art on Friday 3 May 2013

Steve Carr’s Screen Shots from his Mystical Realisms; Modest Gestures series provide thought-provoking visuals that play upon the painting process itself. Carr’s left hand holds a balloon filled with paint. His right hand then slowly-does-it inserts a needle into the balloon. The balloon bursts in slow motion to reveal the containing paint as it falls [...]

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This bridge is held afloat by balloons

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Design on Wednesday 28 November 2012

The Tatton Park Biennial 2012 recently ended in September, and it had some pretty cool stuff going on with artists responding to its Flights of Fancy theme. Olivier Grossetête’s childlike bridge, which stays above a lake of water with the help of three billowy hot-air balloons filled with helium, induces so much zen we just want to do nothing but stare it at for hours.

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These glowing balloons will light your dark, dark world

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Products on Friday 23 November 2012

Mix two of our favourite things, balloons and light, and it’s hard not to have a winner. Designed by Kouichi Okamoto, the balloon lamp fuses a high-intensity LED light with a translucent white balloon to light up its surroundings with a diffused glow. It can run for over 100 hours with the included batteries. Hmm, wonder if people who fear balloons will ever be cured of their phobia with the help of this form of light therapy.

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Balloon art

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Photography on Saturday 3 October 2009

Damn! There’s some creative people out there. Who would have thought so much could be done with some colourful balloons and a head full of ideas.

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