{"id":3197,"date":"2011-08-04T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2011-08-04T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:55:00","slug":"is-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3197","title":{"rendered":"Is Land Is Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Artists Sarah Cockings and Laurence Symonds created this whimsical balloon they call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.is-land.co.uk\/wordpress2\/making-the-original-is-land\/\">Is Land.<\/a> They presented it at a UK art and music festival and had intended to show it off at this year&#8217;s Burning Man, but some dudes had another idea for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sunset-island-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3198\" title=\"sunset-island-resized\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sunset-island-resized-620x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sunset-island-resized-620x432.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sunset-island-resized-440x306.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sunset-island-resized.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses saw a small group of malicious festival goers, two in a dingy, cut all five tether ropes holding the helium structure at 3am on the Sunday morning of the Secret Garden festival allowing it to float away. The daring \u00a39000, six month project by RCA graduates Sarah Cockings and Laurence Symonds simply floated off into the atmosphere, leaving them completely deflated.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The good news is, a replacement balloon has been sponsored, but I can&#8217;t help but wish that that one gets let go as well. But maybe version two will have a GPS beacon?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a related note <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/07\/16\/3225976\/last-us-federal-helium-reserve.html\">we&#8217;re still running out of\u00a0 helium.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists Sarah Cockings and Laurence Symonds created this whimsical balloon they call Is Land. They presented it at a UK art and music festival and had intended to show it off at this year&#8217;s Burning Man, but some dudes had another idea for it. Witnesses saw a small group of malicious festival goers, two in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[260,237,10],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-art","tag-hot-air-balloons","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}