Teresa O'Connor, a Rhode Island resident, creates art installations using mylar balloons collected from beaches to raise awareness about pollution. Her work has been featured in exhibits and ...

He makes hyper-realistic mylar balloon art that will trick your eye ... they stick out more and pop up. The wrinkles are extremely important to paint. I'm trying to do a lot of sculptures.

But it wasn't strong winds or storms that knocked the power out. It was a mylar balloon, coming into contact with a power line. Those balloons are usually made out of some kind of thin ...