Stretching Rubber

Jason Hackenwerth’s balloon sculptures are playful, dramatic and slightly indecent. Some of them can be worn; some of them fire unspeakable things. Ideal for adding a whiff of trauma to a child’s birthday party.

There are films of the sculptures too. (h/t, Coudal.)

Comments

[carbon based lifeform]

I bet kids would love them, even the rude ones.

[longshot]

Especially the rude ones.

[John D]

They're strangely arousing. :)

[David]

“For God’s sake, don’t enable comments,” they said. “You’ll only attract riff-raff and perverts.” But would I listen?

[Franklin]

These are nifty, but they evoke that grating sound of twisting balloons, magnified a hundredfold for hours. I'm having trouble getting past that.

[carbon based lifeform]

I think it's kind of hot. :)

http://www.twistedtracks.com/previews/SoundEffects-LynneMusic/Cartoon-Balloon-Long-Stretch-Squeak-P.mp3

[David]

Oh bugger, you’ve done it now. Latex fetishists can detect those sounds over vast distances. It’s like the Bat Signal. Or catnip.

[JuliaM]

They remind me of Dale Chihuly's glass pieces, which I had the pleasure of seeing at Kew a couple of years:

http://www.kew.org/chihuly/exhibition/index.html