Balloons Links

Community

• Balloon HQ, because every balloon links page is required, by law, to have a Balloon HQ link. Be sure to subscribe to the mailing list. I get the digest form, so once a day I get a dose of intelligent balloon discussion

• The Yahoo Baloon Entertainers Club. There are some cool pictures in the picture books, but the message system is very lame. I haven't participated in a chat yet.

Individuals

• Balloon Hats. Addi Somekh travelled the world making cool balloon hats for the natives. This is source material for Addi's book The inflatable Crown.

• Magical Balloon Dude. First hit when I searched on google. There may be some good content here, but the dhtml tricks really get in the way. I did the "jump throug the hoops to get the password to the balloon instructions" thing, but the page that accepts the password seems horribly borken. There's also no obvious email address to ask for assistance.

• Balloonatix Entertainers Online Newsletter. There's some interesting articles there. What's bizarre is they don't have back issues up (even though current articles refer to previous ones.) The owners of the site will mail you word docs for the back issues. (why they don't just leave the back issues up, I don't know)

Vendors

• T. Myers Magic, because every balloon links page is required, by law, to have a T Myers link. This is where I've been spending most of my disposable income lately. Lots of balloons. Lots of books. Lots of viedos. Lots of clown gear. Lots of pumps. In general, lots of stuff.

• Twistem Up. They make a really really nice line of balloon aprons. Lots of pockets for stuff, a cool velcro mechanism for holding your uninflated balloons, the quality of the workpersonship is phenominally good, and the service is excellent (they expedited an order to me for a gig that suddenly appeared)

• Balloon Designs - with a twist!, Royal and Patty Sorrel's balloon decorating business pages. I have a couple of their viedos (which are really good)

• Dewey's Good News Balloons, page of Ralph Dewey, balloon twisting luminary.