Arches, Drops & Races
Here we go again, 100,000 muslims celebrate EID 2019 in Birmingham, Small Heath Park. After 6 consectutive years we’ve got this down to a fine art. We’ve negotiated an empty marquee with the organisers and they let us have access 1 or 2 days before EID. This is difficult to nail down as nobody knows […]
This year we completed another 20 arches for EID working over 3 days. Again we were not sure if EID may land on Thursday 14th June so we had to make all 20 arches on the 13th. Note to self for next year – 3 crew made 10 arches in 2 hours once all the […]
For this years EID we organised a marquee so we could build the arches during the day as opposed to working all night in 2016. As nobody knows the exact date until the last minute we were happy the store our ready made arches for up to 2 days. In the end we built them […]
4.30am – 20 Arches Complete. This years EID celebration required 20 balloon arches to decorate Small Heath Park in Birmingham. I worked on this event in 2014 but this years task required more planning because of the quantity of balloons and last minute access. With Eid nobody knows the exact event date until the very […]
Here’s another drop at Old Billingsgate. This one was more difficult to rig as there was no simple route for the pull line. The 4 banners under the net were held in place with 4 steel cables which were sharp to touch. I didn’t want the pull line going anywhere near these so I took […]
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Back at Old Billingsgate for this 1000 drop. The stage backdrop had high screens so I had to cut the nets thin to avoid the screens.
Organic balloon displays and corporate balloon drops.
Another 2 x 500 balloon drops installed at Billingsate Market. Here’s previous installs for 2014 & 2016 Your balloon drops worked beautifully at Old Billingsgate on Friday. The party was a great success, so thank you for being part of that. Under Construction pic.twitter.com/NN7fZV8Uue — balloon (@balloon) 10 January 2019 Working at Old Billingsgate today […]
Here’s the arches for The London Revolution cycling event at Windsor Racecourse and Lee valley sports centre. We had all day Friday to build 15 arches, both locations were ready at 5am Saturday with 10 arches in Windsor and 5 at Lee Valley. I also made a short walk though video: David – Congratulations on […]