Cluster Ballooning: More Than Urban-Legend, Darwin-Award Fodder (1)
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About a month and a half ago, a man from Oregon made the news for riding a chair across the state line into Idaho. The catch was the chair was powered by the wind as he launched his chair attached to helium-filled balloons. I had heard of people trying this in the past, but it had been mostly funny e-mail chains and second-hand information. Digging into the story a bit more, I found that this ...
Haw haw: Static-charged balloon foils security camera (5)
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Ah, William Lawson of Brooklyn, New York, you are a smart guy. I can only hope that your balloon trick shows up in future iterations of the Splinter Cell series. I’m getting tired of shooting the cameras out with a pistol. It wastes bullets, it’s dangerous, and it’s impractical for Sam Fisher to have to poke his head out just to aim at a target he could very easily disable with a little bit of ...
Security Camera Defeated by Balloon [Security Cameras] (2)
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Intended as an artistic statement by William Lamson from his collection Intervention, we can't help but to take note of the helium balloon as a clever, non-destructive way to defeat security cameras. Tethered at the right height and loaded with static electricity, a less honest man might use the technology to sneak into Nordstrom late at night to try on all the high heels. Wait, I meant, err, the gun store. To try out the ...
Security Camera Defeated by Balloon [Pic] (20)
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Intended as an artistic statement by William Lamson from his collection Intervention, we can't help but to take note of the helium balloon as a clever, non-destructive way to defeat security cameras. Tethered at the right height and loaded with static electricity, a less honest man might use the technology to sneak into Nordstrom late at night to try on all the high heels. Wait, I meant, err, the gun store. To try out the ...
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This is one of the most awesome ways I've seen to defeat a security camera. Really makes a statement.
Trees Are People Too (12)
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In one of Filthy Lucre’s latest projects, he added eyes to trees and bushes in the public space. They “eyes” are really just dots painted on while balloons. Both of these photos were taken in Salamanca, Spain. via Wooster Collective
How Many Balloons Does it Take to Launch Your Kid? (3)
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My wife threw a surprise 40th Birthday party for me, a month early. Cake and balloons were all over the place so I was having fun. As the Geeky dads stood around, we looked at the helium tank and wondered how many helium-filled balloons it would take to lift a toddler. We were purely concerned about their safety, of course. Helium (He) is the second element on the periodic table, an inert noble gas and ...
Balloon-Based Street Art (9)
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Brooklyn artist D.Billy has created several site-specific installations around the city using balloons as his primary medium. He writes: Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold ...
Farewell to Mylar (1)
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Filed under: Fun & activities, In the news, Kid decor & style, BirthdaysShaped like trains, numbers, and stars and filled with helium, Mylar balloons have become a colorful staple at birthday parties in recent years. Unlike traditional latex balloons, Mylar balloons can last for several weeks before deflating. Latex balloons sink and shrivel up within a day of being inflated, generally. So it's understandable why they have become such a large part of the celebration ...
Better-Prepared Balloon Man Uses GPS, Kool-Aid To Go Where No Brazilian Priest Has Gone Before [Balloon Man] (1)
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In a week mired with the bodies of fellow lawn chair-riding balloon men, Oregon resident Kent Couch finished what a fallen high-flying Brazilian priest could not: he got into a lawn chair rigged with huge balloons, and floated his way to Idaho—all without dying. This is unlike Father de Carli, the flying priest who got lost last April, and recently turned up dead in ocean waters 683 miles from his starting point. So how was ...
Second Balloon Man Uses GPS, Kool-Aid To Go Where No Brazilian Priest Has Gone Before [Balloon Man] (2)
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Oregon resident Kent Couch finished what our friend the priest could unfortunately not: he got into a lawn chair rigged with huge party balloons, and floated his way to Idaho. Couch brought GPS but he also brought along a satellite phone, altimeter, and a second GPS device attached to his chair for redundancy. Then there was his pole with a hook, for bringing wind-whipped helium balloons into firing range, and containers of Kool-Aid, which served ...
Flying Priest Found Dead in the Atlantic, God Positioning System Still Missing [Rip] (3)
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Father de Carli, the flying priest who got lost last April, has been found dead in the middle of the Atlantic. In an effort to raise funds for a local charity organization, De Carli planned to stay for more than 19 hours up in the air using a thousand party balloons, taking a GPS with him to communicate his position in case emergency. Unfortunately, the trip ended in disaster. The body of the priest was ...
20-Year Journey for 15-Minute Fall (1)
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Michel Fournier, 64, has spent two decades and nearly $20 million in a quest to fly to the upper reaches of the atmosphere with a helium balloon, just so he can jump back to earth again.
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Priest Takes Off Using Party Balloons, GPS to Find God (Literally) (1)
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When he was a boy, Father de Carli had the same dream that most kids have: jump off the ground and reach for the sky. But when he grew up, instead of taking flight lessons, he literally did that. He jumped and flew with the help of a thousand party balloons. His first try was a success, traveling 68 miles for 4 hours and 15 minutes. His second, however, has probably ended in disaster—after he ...
Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? (1595) permalink
Record your own or Listen to other Audio Clips! Communist cat misunderstands “party”. da real partee iz down da hall… picture: Kenty. lol caption: smarti22 » Recaption ThisShared by Tudor (17)Contribute comment
