Central Park By Balloons

On January 6th, The Balloon Project took on Central Park where they hosted an Alley Cat Race / Chase against the balloons - An Alley Cat is a bicycle race comprised bike messengers and fixed gear bikers or anyone brave enough to chase after the free floating camera in below freezing weather and through the city of New York. A 50 dollar prize was given to the person who got the balloons and video camera back first!

Chase and landing can be seen in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-C8gwB7Two

And do you see The Gates of Christo and Jeanne-Claude at 11:20?

More Balloon Projects here:
http://theballoonproject.org

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[Surfliner6908]

i would have laughed if it got stuck in a tree

[TheBalloonProject]

@Surfliner6908 sad thing is that it actually did land in a tree :(

[PlayActiv]

GTA IV!

[CheapRobot]

very nice

[BriteKitty]

0:51 lol flower taxi

[xhiltonx]

im gonna do this but keep my balloons on a string lol need a really long piece of string

[TheRealRslive]

LOL

[adasio1]

wow great!

[101metalboy101]

great vid!

[artgirlsreality]

this is pretty darn COOOOOOOOOOOOL! :D I love seeing the park at a NEW angle!YOU guys ROCK.

[SuperMouse1986]

amazing. the balloon project is beautiful.

[technoteda]

So Ira,

If you make it back to Santa Cruz County, look me up. Ted Altenberg :-)

[devinstated]

The view of the water is cool.

[MogglasTV]

I'm gonna make the deluxe verion of TBP, on my 20th birthday, im gonna go on a hot air balloon ride and bring my camera!

[MogglasTV]

well happy birthday then, want some balloons?

[StapledNote]

Cool these were released on my birthday :D

[hormpanther]

It actually happens at 11min 46secs when helicopter comes by

[hormpanther]

fantastic.

when the helicopter comes by (12min 20secs) one of the balloons pop

[daligoddess2006]

Coolsome!

[citizenstand]

i heart new york

[SomebodyIusedtoknow]

amazing ♥

[uTubegangsters]

So cool. I see big things in store for you guys.

I think it would be awesome if you sent one up next to the Empire State building, or something like that.