Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:51:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Larry Moss <moss@balloonhq.com>
To: Balloon Twister List <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple issues addressed

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Steve Brown wrote:

> Larry Moss also made it over to Buffalo, wish we could've found the time to
> jam....but just too busy.  Larry was trying to pass on some incredible
> ideas for eye and glasses.  The eyeball that Larry put into a face is
> incredible.  Talk about realistic and amazing.  Larry does some stuff with
> balloon people and faces that is out of this world.  Thanx Larry

I have been having a blast with the faces, and I have a bunch of eyes I've
worked on, but my guess is that the eye Steve is referring to is actually
one that Patrick Brown was teaching in Belgium.  He referred to it as an
"illusion eye".  I call it a "glass eye".  My reason for the name is that
it evolved from the figure under glass idea that was most recently brought
up here by Tim McConeghy. (The figures inside of clear 350s.)  it also has
a bit of a glass look to it.

I don't think Patrick will yell too loudly if I describe the idea behind
it.  I use 4 balloons (or pieces of balloons) for each eye.  I think
Patrick uses more than that for his really detailed eyes.

Basically, you're stacking a bunch of small bubbles from different sizes of
balloons.

A tiny bubble like from a 160 gets attached to a small bubble from a 260 to
make your basic button type eye.  Now take a larger bubble from a clear
balloon. Patrick used a 350.  I use a partially inflated 5 inch round.  Now
insert all three part way into the tail end of a 418 or 524 like in the
figure under glass, but don't fully insert it.  Just push it in far enough
that when you deflate the outer balloon, it traps the other three balloons
inside it.  By looking into the end where the clear balloon is seen, you
can see the 160 and 260 inside it forming the eye.  The name "illusion eye"
comes from the fact that as you move it around, the eye actually appears to
follow you.  

That was just to clarify Steve's post.  But I think I've probably confused
more people.  Oh well.  It's a challenge for all of you. :-)

Larry Moss
BalloonHQ.com