theferrett wrote about a party clown that he went to see who was apparently really, really good. Flower Clown specifically does balloon sculpture, and what theferrett described sounded pretty impressive. He'd performed in Israel and Dubai, despite operating out of Cleveland. At least in the latter case, they flew him out for a week after seeing his web site. Since he speaks several of the relevant languages, he got to do shows in four languages in a week :-)

Anyway, I went to look at said web site. It's worth the look. Don't miss the 2005/2006/2007 links at the top -- that's where the closeups of his balloon sculpture are.