People always ask "How did you get started in the balloon business?" well: I think it was around 2002 when I was volunteering as an "escort" at the UW Medical Center. This meant basically that I was responsable for wheeling a person in a chair or a bed from one room to another. After a while i wanted somthing fun to do with them so wandering around downtown Seattle one day; I found my self in the Pike Place Magic Shop looking to find (obviously) magic tricks... but what caught my eye instead was a little 1.75$ home made kit on how to make a balloon dog. I fell in love with the art immediately and have been twisting ever since.

Since I decided to turn professional in April of 2004 balloons have opened up a whole new world... I have had a life long interest in the Circus and Carnival arts; balloons gave me an excuse to be a part of that. I have had the the pleasure of volunteering or working for such groups as Pure Cirkus, Circus Contraption, Jet City Improv, the Blow Dog and Sneezy variety shows, Frikers Follies and I'm now a cornerstone member of my own performance troop The Off Ballard Players.

On another note I've just started drawing my own online comic strip called On The Inside an insiders look at Carnival history, games, charictors and gaffs. you can check it out by clicking on the Comics Midaway icon at www.sideshowworld.com


REFERENCES

Wallingford Center
206.547.7246
www.wallingfordcenter.com

Univesity Village
206.523.0622
www.uvillage.com

Kent Station
253.856.2301
www.kentstation.com