| Road rage on the bumpy road of life! Stress on | | | | But, since I deal in craziness...I proceeded to see where |
| America's highways is at an all-time high! And, because | | | | all this would take me! |
| of this, you may be suffering from one of these | | | | I continued taking informal notes and crude drawings |
| little-known conditions: PMS - Post Motoring Syndrome; | | | | for a couple of months, as ideas came to me, and |
| PTSD - Post Traumatic Street Disorder; SAD - | | | | then one day! BINGO...ATTENTION-GETTERS! That's |
| Seasonal Asphalt Disorder; RSD - Reflex Street | | | | it! I could use these orange barrel scenes in my |
| Dystrophy (common in older drivers). | | | | marketing program. About this time, I had about 60 |
| Orange barrel humor! What's that? It all started at the | | | | ideas for scenes, which would be laid out on standard |
| International Hot-air Balloon Fiesta, located in | | | | 8 1/2 X 11 bright orange paper, but I chose to do only |
| Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) where I live. Billed as | | | | about a dozen scenes for now. I also had done about |
| the most photographed event in the world, over 700 | | | | seven scenes and placed them into a montage on |
| hot-air balloonists participate each year from all over | | | | two-sided page to have more samples! |
| the world. (See: Feast for the Eyes) | | | | I've done Orange Barrel Humor since 1996, and in the |
| Me and a friend visited the Balloon Fiesta sometime in | | | | year 2008, I still mail out my little "attention-getters" |
| the mid-1990's, and I mentioned to her that one of | | | | locally and nationally, and I have a lot of fun doing so! |
| these days, there's going to be an orange barrel hot-air | | | | This is the ultimate in silliness...and I love it! The only |
| balloon up in the skies, drifting over the horizon. Well...it | | | | difference in 2008, is the fact that I have decided to |
| didn't happen anytime soon, but in the 2006 | | | | build a display show for the public, and the show would |
| Fiesta...there it was...with all the other Special | | | | be FREE to charitable and non-profit organizations, etc. |
| Shapes...an orange barrel balloon, calmly drifting over | | | | The display show would consist of about three table |
| the city...as I predicted! | | | | displays, and all the traffic colors would be used...yellow, |
| For several months after the Balloon Fiesta, I began to | | | | black, white and of course...orange! All the orange |
| get these images coming into my head, and it all had to | | | | barrel scenes would be framed for show, and there |
| do with some sort of orange barrel humor, and many | | | | would be many street signs; anecdotes, poems and |
| of them were quite funny! Why were these images | | | | general nonsense at the show! |
| coming into my head? What would I do with them, | | | | So, if you ever get a bright orange envelope in the |
| anyway? | | | | mail...and inside the envelope are a couple of bright |
| I decided to start taking notes, on what these images | | | | orange sheets describing the show...you'll know where |
| looked like and I started to sketch some of these | | | | it came from! Don't forget...next time you see one of |
| crude drawings, etc. The headlines, captions and | | | | those pesky orange barrels out on the streets...think of |
| clip-art that would go into creating these orange barrel | | | | me, won't you? |
| scenes on paper. Orange barrel humor? This is crazy! | | | | |