What do you get when you combine over 40,000 latex balloons and a team of balloon artists working solidly for five days? The ultimate balloon sculpture – Balloon Manor. It’s a whole, haunted, house made entirely of balloons and it’s was first created in 2004 to help raise money for a cancer centre in Rochester, USA.

It was so popular and so successful that they’re doing it all over again in October 2006. The house has been designed by one of the worlds top balloon artists – Larry Moss, who is currently working on a project to build a balloon sculpture that will fly and carry a pilot, called the Fantastic Flying Octopus! His wife, Judy has Hodgkins disease and proceeds from the balloon Manor supports local patients and research at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Centre at the University of Rochester Medical Centre. Apparently costumes are encouraged as long as they don’t have any pointy bits that will damage the balloons!

Thanks to Garrett for pointing this out to me. :)