Last evening, I attended a very nice Christmas party at the home of my good pal, Paul Dini. The place was packed with interesting and beautiful people but one impressed me enough to cause me to haul out my pocket Nikon. For entertainment, Paul had engaged a young lady who spent the evening making balloon animals…but not the usual giraffes and horsies. This woman (and I regret I didn't get her name; I'll call Paul tomorrow and get it and post it) was taking ordinary balloons and turning them into spiders and beavers and odd, intricate creatures. They were really stunning. One person handed her a little toy Daffy Duck from Paul's den and challenged her to replicate it with balloons. As you can see, she did…in about six minutes.
That's all made from plain ol' skinny balloons and a few rubber bands. The bulging eyes are one white balloon filled partway and bisected by the uninflated section of a black balloon that forms part of Daffy's body and the back of his head. Then she used a black marker to draw eyeballs on it and isn't that just brilliant? Maybe it was the simplicity and speed that got to me but I thought, "I've got to take a picture of that and run home and put it up on my website." Even though I'm still coding these damn pages by hand.