From: "Hans Siemons" <hans@mediaport.org>
To: "balloonhq" <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: arabian nights
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:33:49 +0100

> For example you can do a play with the kids ,you can tell the aladin story
> you take a boy to do aladin you put on him the aladin's costume,a girl to
do the princess
> and again you do a costume for her.As you like the ken Stilman work(so do
I)

that's an understatement extravaganzo ;-) He is the one that has done by far
the most for my own ballooning skills, and I make his figures often to my
own and other people's pleasure.

> you can do the genie in the lamp.

The story I have in my mind is that I tell them I spent weeks and weeks on
trying to think up something for them. I am going to make the lamp and then
"forget" what is was again. Make the arms, use it as a silly phone to call
home to ask what I am going to make. Make the genie base. Ask a boy up,
dress him up as Aladdin (should be quick to do, the hat T Myers has on it's
logo would do the trick I think) and ask him to start rubbing the yellow
ugly thing I made. Quickly finish up the genie and voila put it in the lamp.

> For another play you can tell the Ali Baba and the 40th thieves story

well, I am going to carefully explain that I am NOT going to do that story
because making 40 balloon thieves would cost me 40 days ;-)

gr, Hans.