January 3 - Unsmooshable Elephant

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)

Laura Elizabeth Richards Eletelephony

I figured it was time to put my money where my mouth is - or the balloon equivalent of that.  (Put the nozzle where my mouth is?)

I talk about how much I love balloon concepts and how versatile and awesome they are, and how you could use it for pretty much anything.  But I then move on or get distracted by the next shiny object.  There are a lot of days in the year, no sense on moving on so quickly.

This year I'm going to try and stick with a design longer than I might, and maintain a list of the balloon concepts or source along the way.

Since this isn't a published and named technique, I don't know what to call it - but with similarities to Scott Tripp's Smoosh technique, and for the convenience, I will dub this Unsmooshable.

Here is an unsmooshable elephant.  Since these are exploring how to build things different and better, I should point out the first guy was the one on the blue flower.   A first attempt usually involves a lot of trial and error, so when I do this I will do my best (depending on complexity/time) to do a second version and detail any differences if necessary.

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