Adult balloon-twisters and gospel balloon-twisters battle
The NY Times reports on a new documentary about the clash between balloon-twister subcultures.
A documentary now in limited release, “Twisted: A Balloonamentary” examines the world of professional balloon twisters, who make everything from life-size racing cars to their own wedding dresses. It also exposes the rift — who knew? — between the “gospel twisters,” who use their craft as a way to teach Bible lessons, and the “adult” twisters, who use balloons for more prurient entertainment.Link“I refused to see the movie” when it first played, said Ralph Dewey, a prominent gospel twister from Deer Park, Tex. “There’s just too much unclean stuff in there.” He and several other like-minded twisters boycotted a screening of “Twisted” at a balloon convention in Texas last year.
The scenes that might make Mr. Dewey squirm take place at a gay men’s party in Las Vegas, where balloons are fashioned into parts of the male anatomy that are most logically suited for this purpose.
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Has anyone crafted a balloon Flying Spaghetti Monster - I thought it would be a nice response to the balloon Crucifix.
The last sentence of the article, not in the blockquote, is one of the funniest and most suggestive.
Also, guy at 0:32 is doin' it wrong.
Christians mad at Porno People? Great Theater. Christians mad at Porno People because of balloon ideology? Sublime.
Many years ago, I had a job making balloon animals at restaurants (mostly Chevy's) around the Bay Area. The most lucrative gig was happy hour at Chevy's in Embarcadero. You wouldn't see many kids, but the tipsy office workers would pay top dollar for a tremendously-simple-to-make balloon penis (especially if it was affixed to a hat, and used to humiliate a co-worker.) That is, until someone complained, and we had to stop. Good times.
You should at least mention that this is narrated by Jon Stewart. His deadpan delivery in the trailer ensures I am going to check this out.
These two factions are just the tip of the iceberg to the massive glacier that is the world of qualatex and 260q's.
I used to work at a really big party supply company in SF. I used to wait on the normal folk twisters, the I can't stop praaaazin' jesus twisters, the socially inept teenager and younger brother forced by parents to pay their way through school by manipulating phallic latex twisters(good luck kid), the clowns; homeless and very nice, homeless and crazy smelly, trust fund clowns that just were short so they just fell into it I guess...
Ahh the fond memories of being yelled at by born again cristian clowns (in costume) because we were out of silver 260q's
Oh and the fishermans wharf ex vet flag twisters.
See this movie.
Man I am glad I am a chef now.
The most impressive guy was the one blowing up 5 balloons at once. One is enough to make the average joe beg for mercy. I can make a poodle and a monkey. I never would have guessed that was john Stewart.
Stewart is apparently only narrating a brief segment of the film
I never believed the Bible. . . until it was presented to me in balloon form.
#6: The food service industry is preferable to dealing with balloon twisters? Ouch.
At what point can we slap these people a la the movie Airplane?
Ah, a great time to share my only balloon creation.
Take a long balloon from the twister, tell 'em you'll show them a new critter. Stretch it a few times, get ready to blow a huge breath into it, but don't, just enough to remove any flatness. Tie a knot with great flourish, maybe turn around while you do this. Then have the twister hold out their hand. Tie the balloon around their finger, loosely and proclaim, "RingWorm!"
My cousin worked for one of the ladies in that trailer!
I think they're all just suffering from inflated egos.
I thought gays would rather use condoms.