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if you are talking about something like that, then the artist has nothing to do with it. i saw several of those going up the whole weekend, but by regular people.
Post by indigrainbowlove on Jun 15, 2010 14:11:46 GMT -5
yeah they sell them really cheap at the fireworks stores. i think they are a good thing. i think they are a bad thing if they have "3 musketeers double whammy super ultra good time lantern" written on them, but thats just me and i didnt see any of those yet. i think part of what might make the difference is if youve seen/heard of them before. if never heard of them or seen them, i bet those people were like WHOA WTF GOOD TIME BONNAROOOOO but if you have seen them and pun aside gotten burnt out on them then probably makes it seem ultra cheesy. i think it might be happier if instead of looking for what this band or this promotional company gives me or does for me or doesnt give me or do i instead look at what it means to me, like reading a poem. i saw a lone light where i was at and it meant a great deal to me as symbolism for what my thoughts were doing at the time, but that isn't to say that same light had the same effect on everyone that saw it. sorry you didnt like the lights, those that didnt. i really dug them tho
Post by jimmyjamesx5 on Jun 15, 2010 14:32:55 GMT -5
yeah so they weren't professional or anything , that is kind of what i am hearing you can go to youtube and find the ones I'm talking about search Rothbury 09 floating lanterns String cheese incident those are the real deal
I thought they were awesome. It was neat to see them all lifting off, and then a few minutes later see like 20-30 of them all high up like drifting stars.
Post by shaggyfort1e on Jun 15, 2010 17:23:12 GMT -5
i actually caught one as it came down. They were made of really light tissue paper, and had a wire ring that held it open. Then there were two pieces of wire intersecting in the middle, and it looked like some sort of tar had been put into the center of those. They definitely weren't candles, and they were a lot bigger than I thought. Probably about 14 or 15 inches in diameter and about 2 feet tall.
I thought they were amazing, we have some video thats making its way to youtube. I know I saw one last year at phish on sunday night. Great idea how ever they were made.
i actually caught one as it came down. They were made of really light tissue paper, and had a wire ring that held it open. Then there were two pieces of wire intersecting in the middle, and it looked like some sort of tar had been put into the center of those. They definitely weren't candles, and they were a lot bigger than I thought. Probably about 14 or 15 inches in diameter and about 2 feet tall.
Good info. I figured they weren't candles but some sort of flammable material, such as that gel stuff (Sterno fuel cans?) that caterers use.
i actually caught one as it came down. They were made of really light tissue paper, and had a wire ring that held it open. Then there were two pieces of wire intersecting in the middle, and it looked like some sort of tar had been put into the center of those. They definitely weren't candles, and they were a lot bigger than I thought. Probably about 14 or 15 inches in diameter and about 2 feet tall.
That wasn't tar, it's the leftovers from parrafin soaked cloth. You can make them from several different materials. The clear plastic trash liners work fine & are cheapest. You can find more enviornmentally friendly materials to use also... Tons of "how to's" on You Tube
i actually caught one as it came down. They were made of really light tissue paper, and had a wire ring that held it open. Then there were two pieces of wire intersecting in the middle, and it looked like some sort of tar had been put into the center of those. They definitely weren't candles, and they were a lot bigger than I thought. Probably about 14 or 15 inches in diameter and about 2 feet tall.
That wasn't tar, it's the leftovers from parrafin soaked cloth. You can make them from several different materials. The clear plastic trash liners work fine & are cheapest. You can find more enviornmentally friendly materials to use also... Tons of "how to's" on You Tube
Cool, I was trying to figure out what they could have used as a fuel. That makes a lot of sense.
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<---GUILTY, HA, thats funny... I brought like 35 in, and just passed them to everyone around my blanket. I'm super happy that everyone near us seemed to like them...
I hope someone took a picture or some video, we forgot to..
we let a few off when DMB started....some guys came through handing them out before the show started, we had some back at camp too...ordered them online cheap