When I make my typically beter-than-yer-average-bear balloon art, and kids ask me (Tony the Balloon Guy), “How did you DO that?” I am tempted to fall back on, “It’s magic!” Sometimes the parents say it first. But I usually try to say, “It’s amazing, isn’t it?” since that’s what the kids are trying to communicate in the first place, and they don’t necessarily want that point ignored. Nor do I!
But I also DO magic. Not really at my restaurants, but when I am hired to do a magic show. I do magic shows for Scouts, and I do magic shows for birthdays. I’ve always liked magic, since I was a teeny little thing. And now I’m a BIG little thing.
Some people like magic like other people like the New England Patriots or a new electronic gadget – they’ll talk about it all the time, annoyingly make things disappear and reappear in conversation, throw in technical terms for sleights and gimmicks to see if you’re as smart as they are, etc. Anytime you here a magician say “I’m going to do an effect with a silk” before he does a trick with a handkerchief, that person is a little too highfalutin about magic.
That’s not me (I’m not even like that with balloons!). I just think magic is amazing!
And, of course, being Tony the Balloon Guy, I have to make it funny and interactive, aimed mostly at ages three-to-nine, give or take.
Still, even with all the silliness, a couple weeks ago at a magic show, I did this really cool trick, and I paused because I realized that the trick had taken my own breath away. And I knew how I did it!
THAT’s what magic should be like. And I knew I was on the right track when a young man approached me later in the balloon entertainment part of the party and said that that same trick had so impressed him that now HE wanted to grow up and be a magician. Well, OK, it you’re not going to be a balloon guy, I guess magician is a good second choice!
It’s amazing, isn’t it?
Have a fun day!
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Balloon Artist/Balloon Twister Tony the Balloon Guy (”Tony Balloonguy” on Facebook) and family provide special-occasion balloon delivery/balloon deliveries and also entertainment (balloon twisters, face painters – chiefly Face Painter Phyllis, glitter tattoos, pony parties, princess parties, piano music, an upbeat and entertaining fortune teller, a magic show magician, etc.) for birthday parties; grand openings; family reunions; trade shows; school parties, fairs, carnivals, festivals, assemblies and other events; church parties, picnics, festivals, outreach events and holiday events; corporate/company picnics, parties, employee appreciation days and such; holiday parties; kids’ parties/children’s parties; civic association picnics, parties and other events; and more, throughout the Tampa Bay area (Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Tarpon Springs, Lakeland, Brooksville, Lake Wales, Brandon, Sarasota, Winter Haven, Bradenton, New Port Richey, Bloomingdale, Mango, Madiera Beach, Treasure Island, Lutz, Oldsmar, Odessa, Trinity, New Tampa, Wesley Chapel, Largo, Seminole, Bartow, Riverview, Gibsonton, San Antonio, Dade City, Zephyrhills, Spring Hill, Homosassa Springs, Inverness, Citrus Park, Crystal River, Gulfport) and the state of Florida, including the Orlando/Kissimmee area (Poinciana, Altamonte Springs, Winter Park, Longwood, Oviedo, Casselberry, Maitland, Deland, Deltona, EdgeWater, Daytona Beach). Balloon decor/decorations, too (arches, columns, canopies, centerpieces, etc., for weddings, baby showers, grand openings, dances, golden anniversaries and more).
