Photos via daylife// meme via trenddelacreme
All humans have belongings, and in order to transport our belongings, we must have some sort of compartment to carry these personal items with us. We must create portable space that is both fashionable and functional. This is why men and women carry ‘purses’, also known as bags-o-stuff. There is apparently a market for ‘high end’ purses, but many regular humans ‘create their own purses.’
It seems like this new trend of FOIL BALLOON PURSES might take over all other D.I.Y.-themed purses in the next 1-3 years. I hope that this will ‘officially kill off’ girls who buy/make purses that look like they were hand-crafted in ‘the Third World.’
I have always been kinda baffled by foil balloons. They have sorta been branded as ‘a shitty complement’ to cheap flowers. Like u stopped at a grocery store, bought some flowers and a foil balloon, then went to give a gift to some1 you don’t really love and doesn’t understand why a foil balloon would be ‘hella insulting.’ Like a grandmother, a kid under the age of 10, or possibly a tweenage girlfriend who ‘carried around her foil balloon proudly on Valentine’s Day.’
Honestly would only buy a foil balloon for a ‘baby’
a tween who I wanted to ‘feel up’ at the mall
or possibly a relative who was about to die.
I am truly amazed by the foil balloon’s transition into this year’s hottest fashion item.
There are just so many possibilities to create something beautiful with foil balloons. I really feel like I can take my brand 2 the next level with a ‘Dora the Explorer’ foil balloon purse.
Should I make a purse for my next ‘GNO’ [via girls nite out]?
Really need 2 be an ‘early adopter’ to this trend. Worried that mainstreamers will catch on to this within 2 months, kinda like how they ’stole shutter shades’/wayfarers/every good band.
I am excited about making my own foil balloon purse this weekend. I am not sure which balloon I should buy. I am not sure which foil balloon will be ‘me’ enough. I might actually start a ‘foil balloon purse conversion’ business in order to capitalize on this new trend.
I think that I will be very ‘now’/'culturally relevant’ if I make a balloon out of Balloon Boy’s balloon. Really need to check ebay to see if I can buy a little bit of the original foil balloon print. Sounds like a challenge straight out of ‘The Runway Project’ television show.
We must realize that we are living in a post-balloonboy world. It’s kinda weird how violated we feel after a lil family from Colorado violated our trust. For 3 hours, we thought we were watching a lil boy abt to die, but then we figured out his parents had jammed him in a box in the attic.
Creating a foil-balloon purse will mean that you are willing to let the world know that you are a victim. You are not afraid to display your pain and use fashion as an effective way to comment on the modern human condition. You will create a foil balloon purse. You will give your world a window to your pain. Your personal brand will be both ‘fashionable’ and ‘vulnerable.’ You will be in touch with humanity.
Will u create a foil balloon purse ASAP?
How long until we see ‘relevant partie pix’ with foil balloon purses?
Will foil balloon purses be the next shuttershades/rcrd hats/child predator glasses?
Are foil balloons/FBPurses ‘fucking stupid’?
Do u think that they will ‘hold up’?
R u going to throw down an ‘arts and crafts’ session this weekend?
R u ‘pissed’ at balloon boy? Do u h8 ‘the media’?
Seems like this photo was taken at some sort of ‘cultural arts festival’ where they were creating a series of foil balloon purses.
Please feel free to send your foil balloon purse pix to Carleser [at] gmail.com (no uggos plz)
Feeling so ‘violated’ in the post-balloonboy world. Not sure who 2 trust any more. Not sure what’s ‘real’ and what is ‘bullshit.’ Alone.
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32 Comments
fiiiiiiiiiiiiirst.
fuck foil balloon purses.
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
@yea, i had a foil balloon purse before they were relevant, that makes me more authentic…
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//////////Reply by Scottish Friction
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 8:14 am
@melbourne, WANT
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//////////Reply by memepolice
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
@Scottish Friction,
ur doing the meme rong
DO WANT
also, the material is mylar, not foil. mylar is killing the earth ;_;
//////////Reply by Scottish Friction
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
@Scottish Friction, STILL WANT
first.
‘conceptual fashion’ is stupid.
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//////////Reply by a_nonnie_muss
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@a_nonnie_muss, make that SECOND
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wut kind of music will we listen 2 in the postballoonboy world?
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
@flowers4alger-anon, we will listen to the negative space between the notes. post-skawave.
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//////////Reply by mary
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
@flowers4alger-anon,
I think we’ll be listening to the 5th Dimension’s “Up Up and Away.”
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I think it would be better to use an umbrella
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 9:43 am
@jo P, i think it would be better if you would just shut the fuck up
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//////////Reply by jo P
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
@melbourne, i think it would be better if you had something interesting to contribute to society. If you had something interesting to contribute it would probably get u more fame and notoriety than insulting great ppl like me would.
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 18th, 2009 at 3:04 am
@jo P, not looking for any more fame sweet heart, i’ve got a sore wrist from signing autographs as it is…
//////////Reply by sis
//////////Posted October 18th, 2009 at 10:17 am
@melbourne, ewww melbournite
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 18th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@sis, melbourne is authentic, no h8 for the melbourne pls…
//////////Reply by sis
//////////Posted October 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am
@melbourne, melbourne is authentic to people from melbourne
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
@sis, you obviously wish you were from melbourne… the gold coast just isnt doing it for you…
i just want a GF
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
@carles junior, :’(
lets do a suicide pact!
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//////////Reply by the zz
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
@carles junior, get a fucking girlfriend if you want one that bad. making it known on a comment board won’t do shit for you. you’re just bored. maybe your lazy ass doesn’t deserve a girlfriend.
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//////////Reply by brian mcBro
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
@the zz, hahaha for getting mad at a comment on blog. you’re just as bored as the lonely bro dude, hope your life is meaningful.
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carles you need to blog more, my life feels fucked and empty at the rate of your blogging
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
@barry mani-bro, i second this
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
bebe wrote this
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Dora, the explorer = Annie Cruz, the squirter
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dangk nuggkets
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//////////Reply by ops
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
@gnar sesh, frosty purple nuggetz
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Carles, you have exchanged cultural relevancy for your immortality.
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//////////Reply by memepolice
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
@on with the show,
so true
i didn’t even know what all this balloon bullshit was about because I was too busy living my life
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not sure if that is a baby either…so maybe it’s a ‘baby’
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i can’t get laid in germany
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
@no fish today, damn bro. germany is the only place in the world i can get laid. feel sad [via no airfare]
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//////////Reply by nicole
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 6:14 am
@flowers4alger-anon, <3 u both haha
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wow those are perfect for Hween…running 2 the dollar store to get loads of foil balloons 2 play ‘darts & crafts’
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meh
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like, omg, would be totes fab with jeremy scott’s ice cream dress zomg!! …srry, i meant ‘fucking stupid’
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will ‘never forget’ balloonboy. will promptly try 2 forget FBPs.
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kind of sad for ballybro never getting to take his “big flight”.
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//////////Reply by siesie
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@Sadnostalgiabro, didnt u already say that?
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Carles the Balloon Boy meme is already dead- it didn’t even last 24 hrs. Why don’t you blog about something relevant?
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//////////Reply by mitch
//////////Posted October 16th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
@Iceberg, Ya 2 blog posts wtf carlesbro… also we both know no one is going to wear foil baloon purses this was just a this excuse for another baloon boy post.. i feel like you are loosing touch
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just went 2 casting call to play ballyboy in a moving picture. will u watch?
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Will they be selling these at AmAppy in the form of messenger bags (via men not wearing purses)?
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Is this “track” relevant?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ss07_la-style-balloony-maxi-version_music
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//////////Reply by sis
//////////Posted October 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
@chrysler5thavenue, I’m prty sure it isn’t
{via space jam movie coming back into vogue via nostalgia, abt 2+ yrs ago}
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i want a foil balloon purse but i’m scared little AZN kids will try hide in it and fly away with all my monies :-(
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//////////Reply by nicole
//////////Posted October 17th, 2009 at 6:10 am
@ermm., hahaha
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feel sad i didn’t think of foil balloon purses 4 my movie ‘the warriors’. feel like maybe my bro cyrus culd hav been protected by 1 [via filling it w/ pumpkin ale 6 paks 4 the 'krazie afterpartie']
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This is a classic Carles!
However, Balloon Boy was one media feeding frenzy I didn’t let myself get sucked into cuz I knew the Balloon Boy waz the little boy down the well all along.
PS Hiz dad seems like a nut job.
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they’re called mylar.
check out my bnd. http://www.myspace.com/skylar_n_the_mylars
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99 red luft balloons
x.
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just wanna contribute 2 the balloon memes. know yall probly h8 sports but balloons r everywhere this week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSOorkAqSqw
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Nice find carles, this will surely take my personal ‘brnd’ to a level of authenticity previously unprecedented.
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this post is a goldmine to any homeless fashion ‘elite’.feel like i mite throw that out and be accused of purse snatching. this post is ghey. post more em pee threes.
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should i feel fashion-forward for knowing that these are photoshopped (via reading style.com and not seeing any FBPs), or does every1 realise this?
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omg i can’t stand dora the explorer…. and foil balloon purses are retarded. i hope this never catches on. gross
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Hey people. Check out this blog – in praise of the Hennes:
http://shoestringcentury.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/cant-be-right-must-be-wrong/
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balloon boy’s mom seems like a yoko ono type.
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