March 18 - Ostrich

sense sound of trouble
puts head and neck flat on sand
arrow lands on tail

~ Uncredited

I was first shown this Ostrich at the Bling Bling balloon jam in a session Eric Weinstein taught in 2015, you learn so much at a jam that it's somewhat of a blur at times - so it's nice to have a chance to build this again with the visual reminders.

This is a release from Eric Weinstein's Live Balloons #6 - he had some tips on keeping the distorted shape of the beak, but this was late and after popping my first couple attempts I just tied it in to see what would happen, it certainly poofed up some overnight - but by the third day it looked like he was blowing an orange bubble.  Lesson learned - follow the instructions!

Tall things are very tough to photograph!

	(from Bling Bling Jam 2015)
They found a cure for both the swine and bird flu ... You use oinkment for your tweetment.

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