100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance - io9 Comments

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

FrankenPC — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:46:36 PST

Wow...I had to stop the movie. I was getting a headache. Wouldn't want a seizure at work.

I remember in the 80's, (while dropping acid) our idea of a trip was to lie on the ground and have two people take a strand of Christmas lights and swirl it over our heads like a jumping rope. That was as techno as it got. Oh, and we played Zepplin in the background.

FrankenPC

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

lucyzero — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:21:13 PST

Balloons=totally evil

viz. The Prisoner

lucyzero

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

strider_mt2k — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:40:24 PST

I used to think that balloons were buoyant, fragile, almost spiritual things.

Now I see they only want to program us to do something for them.
(I looked away in time, others may not be so lucky.)

Balloons used to be cool, now they're digital and evil or somethin'!

WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME????

WHAT DID YOU DO TO MEEEEE?

strider_mt2k

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

Knirfie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:49:34 PST

I saw this several weeks ago at an expo here in the Netherlands. Can't say it was really exciting to watch...

Knirfie

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

Knirfie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:48:05 PST

I saw this weeks ago live at an Expo here in the Netherlands.

Knirfie

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

El_Bandito — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:44:10 PST

Does anyone know what the music/trippy track was? And where I can score it?

El_Bandito

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

Eac_o_System — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:14:28 PST

This makes the stop-watch microscope woman look down-right normal. Strangest use for these things since Ron paul's group thought they could use their blimp to win elections.

Eac_o_System

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

amysisson — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:40:45 PST

Years ago I saw a dance performance by a man in a completely darkened auditorium, who timed his jumps to match flashes of a strobe light. The audience never saw him with his feet on the ground, and the strobe flashes were close together, so it appeared he was flying. I'm always impressed with new and innovative art, even if, as in the case of the balloons, it doesn't pack an emotional punch for me. It's still creative and new, and therefore worth spending at least a few seconds looking at.

amysisson

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

Whyaduck — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:07 PST

That's some elegant engineering right there. I expect initially they just wanted to illuminate spheres moving on the z-axis, which meant hanging fairly heavy stuff from the ceiling or lot's of mechanical engineering on the floor. Substituting helium balloons makes the installation pretty damned simple. Very nice. Plus, trippy!

Whyaduck

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Dug — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:30:14 PST

Yea!

More techno-art please!

Dug

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

tetracycloide — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:27:25 PST

the world's largest 3D balloon display? that appears to imply there's a 2D display of balloons that is larger still...

tetracycloide

100 Trippy Balloons Do the Atom Dance

JoeyTheHobo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:17:37 PST

Um, is there a point to this?
Oh, I guesss they can't allow the point anywhere near the balloons....

JoeyTheHobo