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| This Balloon Drop by Tami Zeip delighted the crowd waiting below. |
As always, the Balloon HQ team dealt with a healthy load of technical issues this year. Big projects included continuation of the spam wars, adding features for the photo database (see article below), and establishing new agreements for our server hardware and ISP support. Luckily, our intrepid staff of John Barthelmes and Debbie Piotrowski have stayed with us. Mark, Larry and I are lucky to have such loyal and hard-working people representing Balloon HQ.
2004 was filled with a wide array of balloon education events. Balloon HQ representatives showed their faces (and did varying degrees of other stuff) at Twist & Shout, the Halloween and Party Show, the 20th anniversary of IBAC, the IBA annual meeting, Summer Balloon Camp, Balloons Around the World, Balloon Manor, and BalloonTownUSA. That's more events than ever before, which illustrates why we had to miss out on some other great events like Ballooniversity, the first ever asian twisters convention, the All Star Revue, TJAM on the Road, and other events in the US and abroad. Hardly a week went by on the Calendar without some learning opportunity being offered somewhere in the world.
Winning the Crystal Award was, of course, a high point of our year. However, the best benefit we get from the BHQ is the wonderful relationships we've earned with balloon professionals around the world. We're looking forward to 2005, expanding BHQ services, and visiting with our friends as often as possible. Happy New Year from Sheena, Mark and Larry!
As of this writing, over 21,000 photographs have been archived. It seems a good time to review tips for uploading photos, keeping search strategies in mind. The discussion thread about Photo Searches and Upload Tips from 18 Oct 2002 seems a good place to start. Some highlights from that discussion include:
Glynis Sylvia writes:
I have occasionally asked a person by private email to amend their photo title or description to include a key word so I, and others, can find their balloon once it's gone from the current pages. It helps everyone to have a good search experience.
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| Two-toned Daisy by James Sylvia |
Qwinkly Entertainment provides balloon, juggling, magic, clowning, and stilt walking entertainment to the people of Troy, Michigan. Glynis and James have built a large but well-organized portfolio of detailed balloon sculptures.
See Glynis and James' BHQ Portfolio.
