Arches, Drops & Races
Here’s yesterdays installation at Sadler’s Wells Theatre for The Red Shoes. Again we inflated & bunched 800 balloons, with 10am access we were finished for 12.30. As the balloons needed to last until midnight I printed them on Qualatex which were also kinder on the fingers.
Here’s another car arch but this time the arch was going on a grass area outside the showroom… in the rain for 3 days. I moved the pins from the centre of the base plates to the corners so they could drive a car over both plates. Here’s the arch after 3 days in wind […]
Yesterday I was back at the Prince of Wales theatre in Leicester Square for the Half a Sixpence launch party. With a team of 2 we started at 10am and had 80 bouquets of 10 in place for 3pm. Excellent 2 colour print on these – that’s a real photo above, it’s not superimposed.
Dentsu Aegis have a day of Halloween fun for staff and kids and we were invited to decorate the area and create something spooky. We arrived at 5am and had everything in place for 8.30am. Here’s a previous installation at the same building & here’s the 2017 Monsters theme.
Here’s another drop at Old Billingsgate. This one was more difficult to rig as there was no simple route for the pull line. The 4 banners under the net were held in place with 4 steel cables which were sharp to touch. I didn’t want the pull line going anywhere near these so I took […]
Coca-Cola contacted me and asked for Round shaped balloons. My first thought was a 36″ as anything smaller is usually pear shaped. They didn’t want anything as big as a 36″ and required Silver Orbz Balloons so I sent them an inflated sample of a 24″ Orbz. They loved the sample and explained they were […]
Here’s a good example of how a 250 balloon drop looks. This one was installed at Stafford University. My ladders reached this ceiling so no need for hefty genie equipment.
We decorated the Prince of Wales Theatre in Leicester Square with 800 helium filled ‘Phantom of the Opera’ balloons. This was to celebrate their 30th anniversary, I was at college 30 years ago on Charing Cross Road and I remember all the London Buses covered in the Phantom branding. Phantom is playing at Her Majestys […]
Following on from our first Disney installation at HMV we have just completed 4 retail store decorations at Merry Hill, The Bullring, Coventry & Nuneaton. This time the promotion was 2 DVDs for £12 which is a great deal for some of my favourite films. The promotion lasts 6 weeks so we’re returning to the […]
We were back at The Apollo for wicked 10. This show just keeps running and amazing to think we’ve been installing these drops since the very 1st year. It’s been like a balloon drop apprenticeship, we’ve got slowly better and it’s good to use the skills in other theatres.
Here’s my reference library images that I can link to from other posts. This includes a gallery, video and recent tweets.
Following last years fun in Blackpool we were back again this year with a repeat order at The Bibas 2016. I took an extra crew member this time (there were 3 of us) because of the large table centres. I wanted more help at that difficult moment when the net rises and it swings over the […]