When Gingerbread Houses Fly – New Charles Phoenix Video
“Make a gingerbread house fly” was one of my answers when the fine folks at the L.A. CO Arts Commission asked me what I was planning to do this year to get in the mood for the holiday season. They said “Great!, can we make a video of you and your attempt at gingerbread house flying?” Of course, I said, of course!
So off to Streit’s German Bakery I went (featured in last week’s slide) where under the watchful eye of gingerbread expert, Oscar Streit, I built and decorated a little a-frame gingerbread house.
With the finished gingerbread house in hand, I met up with Ballusionist, Brian Potvin who was standing by with bunches of bright colored, helium-filled balloons. We carefully attached the balloons to the gingerbread house and with a proper “5-4-3-2-1 BLASTOFF!” launched it. But did it go where no gingerbread house has gone before? You’ll have to watch the video above to see if gingerbread houses can fly!
Watch this video and more Charles Phoenix Holiday Videos on TV during the 55th annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration – Live on KCET-TV on Christmas Eve.
Here’s to flying gingerbread houses and YOU!
Charles Phoenix
December 13, 2011
On the surface, releasing balloons seems a fun and even traditional thing to do, but I would like to inform you that when balloons are released and they pop, they end up in our water ways and eventually in the ocean. Sea turtles think they are jelly fish–which is their primary food–so the turtles eat them. However, these popped balloons have no nutritional value and therefor, the turtle end up starving to death with fully bellies. In the future, please be mindful of this and even share this information with your listeners. A responsible journalist and member of the media would even release a retraction of your stunt and express the hope that no turtles were harmed as a result of your good-humored though ill advised stunt. You can confirm and learn more about this from Heal the Bay.
Thank you
Nathan Green
Hey,
I saw that Gingerbread House go by…
…Thought it was my ex-wife spying on me again.
Bombs Away!
Naw… Not really.
But, the people living inside the Gingerbread House just woke up shortly after lift off and really FREAKED!
Do it again… Do it again…
You’re adorable! I love you! Merry Christmas!
I hope it landed in Kansas? that would please Dorothy and Toto.
The Santa Ana Winds took it to Long Beach……….it was delicious!!!!!
Hey – my house – it flew away!
AWESOME. I want to see that Tiki Turkey thing fly next.
Just think of all the stunned drivers on 5 or 405 or wherever it was headed! They looked up and saw “Up”!
Hi Charles,
That was wonderful. Please let us know where it ended UP!
Thanks!
So cool, I knew you could do it. Fly, little house, FLY!!!
A big thumbs “up” to you for your aviation oriented holiday fun! Thanx Charles!
So my big question is, do you know where she landed? Hope she didn’t end up in the flight path of LAX!!! Happy Christmas, Mr. Phoenix, and thanks for another year of laughs.
Great, but I wonder where it came down. Did you enclose any kind of “note in a bottle”?
That was the best!! I love it when houses fly.
Westmont Nancy
You’re nutz! I love it! Merry Christmas, Charles!