September 7 - Gemar Ivory

With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring

~ Jolene - Dolly Parton

Yas Queen!

Ivory is a color that I rarely use, even for things that are ivory colored, unless there is a good enough reason to have multiple colors of white on something - these get left in the kit.  So it's no wonder I would have a bag of these untouched for use on color day.

They have just a slight transparency to them that I don't really want in a balloon unless I intentionally want it in a balloon, and honestly the color is a bit 'bleh' by itself - a dirty yellowish white.  I ended up using the button technique to try and make one of the chess pieces that Juho Hokkanen demonstrated at Twist & Shout this year with most of these.

Overall impression of Gemar Ivory - not a big fan of the color nor the ever-so-slight transparency, but the balloons handled well despite "5 years locked away".

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Other "color day" balloons:

September 6 - Trypanohyncha Ocellus

"Game over, man! Game over!"

~ Hudson - Aliens (1986)

It's called Alien Earth - and shame on me for assuming it would be about the original Xenomorph because certainly one of the stand out creatures in the show has been this little guy (nicknamed 'the Eye Midge').

Trypanohyncha Ocellus is a hyper-intelligent alien cephalopod that can use it's limbs to ... ... replace it's hosts eye with its own body.   In doing so it takes complete control of their circulatory systems and pilots the corpse like a marionette.

Move over Giger, make way for Eye-ger!

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Other aliens:

September 5 - Swan

"The swan, like the soul of the poet, by the dull world is ill understood."

~ Heinrich Heine

In Arthurian legend, Lohengrin, son of Percival was called called 'Knight of the Swan'.

Legend has it he arrived in a boat to defend the honor of Elsa of Brabant who was accused of murdering her brother.  He married her with the one stipulation that she never ask his name.

... and so she ended up alone.   Makes me wonder about her brother ...
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This design is one that Isopresso shared just recently on their channel, a quick build that captures the simple elegance.

(view other swans)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Isopresso:

September 4 - Lillies

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

~ Aristotle

According to Greek myth, lilies sprang from drops of milk spilled by Hera, after Zeus snuck baby Hercules to her breast while she slept in a bid to grant him immortality.

The first philosopher had said flowers evolved to attract pollinators with specialized reproductive structures but the crowd threw olives at him until he fled the amphitheater.
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I found this flower design on the YouTube channel 艳华爱气球’ (Yanhua Loves Balloons). I love the look of big giant flowers but the top-heaviness makes them an interesting/difficult photograph.

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Other flower balloons:

September 3 - Bomacycle Elite

I dont want a pickle
I just wanna ride on my motorsickle

~ Arlo Guthrie - The Motorcycle Song

It started as an idea.   To engineer the worlds most Boma-ish cycle.  A vision that would redefine two wheels.

 

Months of research, countless drafts, healthy snacks.  Until one day, the impossible became inevitable.

Bomacycle Elite, because the world was ready - are you?

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In the collection, this is billed as the advanced design, but Mr. Boma includes an alternate/efficient way to build the body that makes this one probably just as quick as all the rest.  

All in all, I would say the ramp between easy/normal/advanced is very slight and it was more escalating practice building similar shapes slightly differently, which arguably is a great practical lesson.

(view other motorcycles)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Mr. Boma:

September 2 - Bomacycle Breeze

"A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself."

~ Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

The Bomacycle Breeze.

Engineered for simplicity.  Styled for freedom.

With easy handling, just the right amount of power, and an engine that goes PpPPpppPppPppPppPp - it's the perfect choice for riders who want that open road, but just in theory.

Light.  Nimble.  Effortless.

Like a breeze.   Bomacycle Breeze.

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Mr. Boma released a couple tutorial companion pieces to his original motorcycle design, this is billed as the "quick/simple" version but it feels more like a refined version of the original, more efficient and quick.  

(view other vehicles)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Mr. Boma:

September 1 - Bomacycle

"Riding a bike is everything to a biker. It's freedom, expression, and passion."

~ Jonathan Rea

Motorcycles are cool.

I picture myself riding like the Terminator - leather jacket, dark glasses, no helmet.

Which is, of course, why I should NOT own a motorcycle.
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I've been going through a collection of videos I had set aside and these motorscooters are part of Mr. Boma's collection of videos. This design in particular is the one he shows on his channel, a pretty quick build.


(view other motorcycle)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Mr. Boma: