January 13 - Butterfly on a Flower

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

~ Herbie Hancock

After so many daily posts (700+?), I am enjoying taking this extra time between them to consider what I really want to talk about and/or build.  But be forewarned that this added time will likely give rise to a number of "you know what/who I think is cool" posts.

So ... You know who I think is cool? Syotaro Tushima, known as Balloon Syotaro.

@balloon_syotaro is an inspired balloon artist I have been following on Instagram for a while and his images are  next level balloon art.  They go beyond being simple balloons and tell a story, you catch a freeze frame of something more.

This example from a post earlier this week is a good example of what I mean.  Individually they are not super-impressive balloons, but when combined they are more than just simply butterfly and flower, they are a scene - no longer are you looking analyzing the form of a butterfly, you're considering that at some point the butterfly landed and will fly away from that flower.  Similar to a choir, where individual voices combine to be more than the sum of the parts.

More than putting things on a hairband or a 6-petal flower - this is a fish set among coral, an insect in a flower, a mouse bursting from a block of cheese, a mother cradling a child, an alien holding holding a Deathray 2000 or a breathing apparatus or a book entitled "How To Serve Man", a holiday scene with all the trimmings.  In the time since I was considering building this one, he has posted both a baby swan (ugly duckling) sitting on the back and touching beaks with it's larger swan parent,  and a dog holding a leash expectantly for a walk.  I love it.