I love these things. I could sit and watch them for hours. Such relentlessly optimistic, bottomless reservoirs of joy and psychotic invitation. One day I should get one of these for my apartment. This was outside the 109 Madison Laundromat at 109 Madison Street today, in lower Manhattan.
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- AirMan Outside a Laundromat on Madison Street
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- AirMan Outside a Laundromat on Madison Street
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- AirMan Outside a Laundromat on Madison Street
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- AirMan Outside a Laundromat on Madison Street
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- AirMan Outside a Laundromat on Madison Street
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- AirMan Outside a Laundromat on Madison Street
I call it AirMan but in the vernacular of promotional contraptions this tube of rictus-afflicted balloondom goes by many names:
- One-Legged Air Dancer
- Inflatable Man
- Wind Tube Man
- Dancing Balloon
- Sky Dancer
- Wiggler Sky Dancer
- Wavy Tube Man
- Wavy Balloon
- Air Dancer (I think someone once referred to Philippe Petit as that. This ain’t Philippe Petit…)
