Ubi the Clown

Stealth Fighter

We’d tell you how it works, but then we’d have to stab you with a balloon sword.
Sent to us by Karen’s first boss, who finds lots of pretty cool stuff.

John’s business and clown activities take him all over central and Eastern NC. This is an area of the country with a rich history of aviation. As a result, he encounters a lot of “planes on sticks.” He thought he’d create a blog post to track the retired airplanes he encounters.

We found this Blue Angel F-11A jet, with a complete story, in New Bern, NC.

More about the Blue Angel flying team, from the statue / plane in New Bern, NC.

The story about the F11A Tiger, flown by the Blue Angels, now retired to New Bern, NC.

K-Days in Kinston, NC

Ubi the clown and his partner, Karen the Hoop Lady, have entertained children at K Days at Emma Webb Park in Kinston, NC, more than once. It’s a pleasant Saturday afternoon picnic, with food vendors, a DJ, and plenty of things to do.

Here are a few pictures of people hooping and children getting balloon animals from the 2012 party.

Hooping in the foreground, balloon twisting under the red umbrella in the background at K Days celebration, Labor Day weekend. — Hooping in the foreground, balloon twisting under the red umbrella in the background at K Days celebration, Labor Day weekend in Kinston, NC.

The children in the big hoop are about to figure out it won't hoop two people that way. — The children in the big hoop are about to figure out it won’t hoop two people that way.

Another Giant Chicken in Pittsboro

LaNelle Davis, artist, and Steve Carr, building owner, are creating a giant chicken mosaic made out of mirror tiles, at the corner of the building at Rectory and West street in downtown Pittsboro, NC. The building was once a chicken hatchery.

Rooster in progress, outlined in mirror tile.

Materials have been donated by local and regional artists, and LaNelle, who has created mosaics all around the area, is donating her creative energy and time.

Here are the finished pictures!

Lanelle Davis, a mosaic artist working in Pittsboro and Chapel Hill, NC, created this chicken mural on the wall of a building that had once been a hatchery.

The rooster is the second half of the chicken mural. He is on a wall that is perpendicular to the wall that has the hens.

Ubi the Pirate Clown at the Pirate Invasion, Beaufort, NC

Ubi the Pirate Clown made a rare appearance this year at the Pirate Invasion in Beaufort, NC.

Ubi adds a pink heart to a pirate girl’s black sword balloon.

Ubi arrived just after the Pirate Parade passed through downtown Beaufort and set up his twisting chair on the waterfront, outside the Dockhouse Restaurant.

Ships in the harbor at the Pirate Invasion. Look for the Jolly Roger!

Some of the more modern pirates arrived in cars and RVs, but many of the authentic pirates came to Beaufort the way they always had, by sail and by sea. More than one ship in the harbor flew the Jolly Roger.

Flags from just a few of the countries who sent pirates!

The harbor flags flew greetings to all who arrived across the water.

Ubi the Pirate Clown twisting a black kitty balloon.

After twisting many a balloon sword for many a carefully costumed lad and lass, the occasional poodle or puppy balloon
was a welcome break!

Ubi chatting with boys asking for skull and crossbone balloons.

Boys wanted cutlasses and crossbones.

Rusty Cutlass (that’s Rusty with an Arrrgh!)

Ubi the Pirate Clown was twisting right across the plaza from the music stage, where the band Rusty Cutlass (that’s Rusty with an Arrgh!) entertained for two sets in the afternoon. That’s a mermaid playing a fiddle on the left front side of the stage!

By the second song, people were dancing. Ubi wanted to dance a jig, but he had too many people waiting for balloons!

Ubi the pirate clown inflates a blue heart balloon.

Some of the youngest children got magic wand balloons with hearts.

The pirate clown makes a sword balloon. — Ubi adds a pink heart to a pirate girl’s black sword balloon.

The face painters nearby were doing a banner business in painting moustaches, beards and bandanas on people who didn’t wake up with facial hair that day!

Ubi the pirate clown worked at the Pirate Festival in Beaufort, NC. — Ubi chatting with parents while he twists balloons for their children at the Pirate Invasion.

Cool breezes off the water kept the August heat at bay and a good time was had by all!