The world of balloon entertainment, by Dale Obrochta
How long can it last? While entertaining at a local business expo, I was approached by a Mom who told me that I had made her daughter a balloon cake before Christmas 2011. Her daughter refuses to toss it out and still has it on her dresser. The mom kindly emailed me the photo so … Read more
Resistance is futile, I will shape it A writer’s ideas bend, contort, and transform concepts and beliefs before my eyes. I stand before an audience transforming the ordinary balloon into the extraordinary. A balloon may resist me, but I will prevail and transform it into a doll. My brain resists new ideas that the author … Read more
The obvious solution sits on your head. When you work in a creative industry, there are always going to be ideas that spread through the community. Entertainers introduce new ideas, tools, or techniques into their repertoire. Will these things make it into their everyday entertainment style? Who knows? However, one idea that has been going … Read more
Who says a rubber chicken can’t be funny The fun part of being a balloon entertainer is taking the ordinary and putting a twist on it. For example, the chicken sandwich is not only comedic but cute. I’ve found that my audience likes to see artistry mixed with a touch of offbeat humor. I’m pretty … Read more
An astute understanding of your audience makes for better entertainment. Being a balloon entertainer is more than having the technical skills for twisting a balloon; it requires an astute understanding of the audience your entertaining. I like to think of it as profiling an audience. It is safe to bet that boys like blue and … Read more
Can you envision what the design will look like before you start inflating a balloon? Can you envision the stage performance with all its details and ambiance? Can you address all the concerns in your speech? Your vision of what a client needs may not be their wants. So, if you are looking to fail … Read more
If you like golfing, then you should love performing on stage Golf is both exhilarating and frustrating with every swing of the golf club. The same is true with entertaining on stage. In golf, every course is different, just like every entertaining venue. Every show challenges you to be perfect, similar to strategic layout of … Read more
Add a Twilight Zone Effect to Your Balloon Design Halloween can be about scary things that go bump in the night, or do you think it is about gore and blood splattered all over that makes for a frightful Halloween. As an entertainer, Halloween is my favorite holiday, but to be honest it is hard … Read more
Halloween is one of the creative and funnest times of the year for balloon entertainers. But sometimes we over look the basics and try to make things more complicated then they need to be. There’s no rule book that says we cannot take something as simple as a balloon pumpkin and infuse a little variety, … Read more
If you attended the Robbie Furman, Deco-Twisting balloon jam (Sponsored by Qualatex Balloons) this past week, you would have learned how to make an eight-foot-high balloon person. The design was cute and had a lot of potentials. Robbie gave ideas on different ways to transform a quick and straightforward balloon figure into other characters. The … Read more