Product Testing
Recently I learned about Rhode Island Novelty from a couple of different sources. All of them told me that they sold cheap, crappy inflatables that popped too easily. Perfect 
My thoughts
Horses: Fun, wish they were bigger, stupid squeakers are a PITA to remove (and even more annoying if left in).
Small B&W orcas: Squeakers are easy to remove, cheap (but small). Nice bang
Dolphins: These have bells in them… not squeakers… FUUUUUUUUU- Otherwise, they also pop rather nicely… jingle jingle jingle POP!
Big blue whales: These are actual Bestway ride-ons. An amazing deal for $4.80 / ea.
Birthday Bust 2009, Part 3
Annnnnd I’m spent! You cannot imagine just how beat I was by the end of this. I spent the better part of a day setting this up, filming it, and cleaning up the mess that I’d made. Was it worth it? Of course. Will I do it again next year, only bigger? Hell yes!
Birthday Bust 2009, Part 2
The madness continues. One of these days I will pop a boat without the assistance of an air compressor.
Birthday Bust 2009, Part 1
New content! Hooray! I know a lot of you have been eager to see this, and I’ve been busting my ass (literally and figuratively) to get it put together and online. Even though I no longer have to deal with YouTube’s 10 minute video limit, I’ve broken this video up into a few chunks (3 to be exact) as it’s a long one. Lots of different gear, different balloons, and different inflatables. One thing that I’ve wanted to do ever since I got into inflatables a few years back was to pop a whole pile of them and, well, you’ll just have to watch the video and see how things turn out.
One last item of note: some new gear that I’ve alluded to previously makes an appearance in this video. Happy birthday to me
New Years Bust with Sneaks01
Here’s the first in the final batch of my old YouTube videos. I know a lot of you have been asking for this one.
Quickie
I happened to be in gear one day while chatting on IM with one of my looner friends (tonythetiger on YouTube). He requested a quick squeeze pop, with lots of squeezing and teasing. This is the result.
Balloons on a Whale 2: Electric Boogaloo
I shot this video to test out my then new digital still camera, which also had a pretty decent video capture mode… or so I thought. While it was capable of capturing at 480 and 720p, unfortunately there are some features such as image stabilization, which is what causes the frame to shake when I’m bouncing on the whale, that can’t be disabled. I gave up on it after 1 or 2 videos and bought the JVC MiniDV camera that I’m still using now.
Big Tuftex
These balloons totally were not yoinked from a real estate sign near my house. Nope. Not at all. On a related note: who in the hell ties 36″ Tuftex balloons to a real estate sign?
