This was one of the first balloon videos I ever saw, and I've always wondered who this girl was/what studio she was from. Any help would be appreciated!
Help identifying an old video?
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Help identifying an old video?
This was one of the first balloon videos I ever saw, and I've always wondered who this girl was/what studio she was from. Any help would be appreciated!Tags: None -
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Wonderful old clip, that! According to my collection, her model name was Paris, and she was featured in a couple of videos and photosets on a long-gone site called Balloondesire - the year was 2004, if my files kept the right date.
Later their material showed up on another paysite that either bought up their archive or outright pirated it. I think that one mainly used Thai models (asian, at any rate) for their new material, but I didn't keep any of it since it was of decidedly lower quality. Can't even recall the name of that place, but the Paris video could have come from either there or the previosly mentioned Balloondesire. -
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Thank you!! I wasn't able to find anything with a Google search, but I'll keep looking.Comment
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Good luck!
I've some observations about older stuff in general: The early to mid-noughties (before the arrival of Clips4Sale and the advent of Youtube) gave rise to several smaller sites catering to looners, most of them pretty short-lived. Some appeared to be cash-grabs while others had what seemed like a genuine belief in the concept. But since the market wasn't huge and the availability period limited, I doubt many purchased (and even fewer kept) the material.
Filesharing was not a big thing back then so the producers likely vanished from lack of sales and competition with the larger, more established and better updated sites. Joining a site to access the archives was usually worth the money, but renewing the membership at the same cost for just a few updates made return customers rarer - especially since it could be a gamble if there'd be any more content at all. That's one of the main reasons selling individual clips became more of a norm, as soon as the storage and transfer tech was up to scratch. As a bonus, this made longer clips in higher quality viable and the smaller sites just couldn't compete with that.
Since it's been so many years, I've no idea how many (if any) traces of those sites remain online - I believe there might be some link collection on waybackmachine but all that would net you are some names.
Sorry for the long post, I got nostalgic thinking of those days and pondering the ever-shifting online landscape. Is Internet Archeology a thing yet? Something like that might be required to unearth a view of the looner market from twenty years ago...Comment
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I used Wayback Machine and ended up finding the front page of their old site, but sadly wasn't able to find any video clips... I hope they end up resurfacing someday!Comment
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The next fun questions is which sites do you remember fondly?
Balloon Ecstasy, Balloon Frenzy & Goth Balloons are ones I liked who had some mixed quality.
Italoon's is the only one of the old style paysites which is still around that I know about. I have videos of theirs as old as 2004.
The highest quality of the studios from the mid 2000s and easily my favorite was Balloons Elevator. They had the best sets and the girls were having more fun than in a lot of the other content from that time.Comment
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Oh wow, I loved Ecstasy, Italoon, and Elevator! Elevator often had helium clips and I loved those. Tara Bush will always be another favorite of mine, and I remember when Alissa first did content, such as the long neck tutorial.Comment
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The next fun questions is which sites do you remember fondly?
Balloon Ecstasy, Balloon Frenzy & Goth Balloons are ones I liked who had some mixed quality.
Italoon's is the only one of the old style paysites which is still around that I know about. I have videos of theirs as old as 2004.
The highest quality of the studios from the mid 2000s and easily my favorite was Balloons Elevator. They had the best sets and the girls were having more fun than in a lot of the other content from that time.Comment
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The first thing I ever ordered online was a Bare Balloons Babes VHS from Frazier photography. I still have 5 of their vhs tapes, though nowhere to play them. Risque Renee out of Vegas was a year or two later. I have two or three VHS tapes from her.
This was from the days where America Online was the main way to get online. It was dialup and a 30 meg file would take the day to download.Comment
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The first thing I ever ordered online was a Bare Balloons Babes VHS from Frazier photography. I still have 5 of their vhs tapes, though nowhere to play them. Risque Renee out of Vegas was a year or two later. I have two or three VHS tapes from her.
This was from the days where America Online was the main way to get online. It was dialup and a 30 meg file would take the day to download.Comment
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yes thats from Balloondesire. The original clip of Paris is actually a bit longer. Balloondesire really made some great videos.Comment
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