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I cut down trees, I skip and jump.
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on robot clothing
And hang around in bars.
Here I am at Bentley's Bar-Geeko, Halloween 2007, for the Scary/Erotic costume contest. I walked a mile in this get-up and nobody else even showed up, except for some girls in baseball outfits. Pfffft. My pal dressed in a V mask and his brother came along, and one of 'em took this picture. Fortunately I had the foresight to wear sneakers all the way there, and change into the monster skull-stompin' high heels only while indoors at the destination. Shee-it, where's the Halloween spirit these days?
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on robot clothing
And hang around in bars.
Here I am at Bentley's Bar-Geeko, Halloween 2007, for the Scary/Erotic costume contest. I walked a mile in this get-up and nobody else even showed up, except for some girls in baseball outfits. Pfffft. My pal dressed in a V mask and his brother came along, and one of 'em took this picture. Fortunately I had the foresight to wear sneakers all the way there, and change into the monster skull-stompin' high heels only while indoors at the destination. Shee-it, where's the Halloween spirit these days?
Category Photography / Portraits
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File Size 165 kB
Some costume details:
--red eyes are Radio Shack high brightness LED's, something like 5 candlepower (“5000 mcd”which is a hell of a lot for an LED. Fairly blinding when both focused on you)
--robo shoulders are cut out of a new plastic wastebasket from Wal-mart, sewn with strong synthetic thread to the shoulders of my old 1980’s SCA armor. I’d rather hang around in bars than be out getting whacked by 2X4’s.
--giant bosoms made from Burmanfoam Flabbercast urethane. They’re more realistic than even silicone or saline implants, adding to the scariness. Urethane is almost idiot-proof, you mix and pour, and an hour later there’s this wobbling pair of tits on your garage floor staring at you. You pause on your way to the cyclotron with another load of antimatter and say “stop…stop doing that.”
--robo sailor thing made from ABS, a most magnificent plastic for all purposes. You can just bend it and it stays, doesn’t snap or turn white with strain like styrenes. When you heat it it can form any shape you want, particularly with a vacuum table. Make yer own Darth Vader suit. But I had to drive to fucking Grand Prairie to get the stuff from way way back in a plastics warehouse. “Here we go, styrenes, LDPP, HDPP, hey, ABS.” This is what you have to go through to get just the RIGHT plastics.
--Whole suit is fairly easy to shed if it catches on fire, since it’s made of a number of independent parts.
--giant high heels made from vinyl mirror-surfaced shoes sold to chumps going to proms and stuff, modified with very long drywall screws put into the heel, followed by solid epoxy (Magic-Sculp, from The Compleat Sculptor, NY NY. The actual Magic-Sculp product is made by very nice but somewhat distracted hippies out in California somewhere. Save yourself some trouble and get it from the vendor, not the source.)
--pleated gang boss skirt from my sister’s laundry a few years back, I don’t think she ever noticed, since she dresses like me all the time anyway.
--eyes are a laptop HDD sawn in half. Face is made from that solid epoxy product.
--wig cost $USD. Colored by RustOleum bright red spraypaint. Wig is augmented by “YAKI BRAID” $1.00 USD at “Sam’s” Dollar Store. I have no idea what you do with three foot long plaits of modacrylid, but for a cospuraya and dollmaker, the shilst is very useful.
--red tape from Aldus chemical supply. It was originally used to mark the DANGER ZONE under the fume hood where you were supposed to very very carefully approach the bottle of HF. As you know, HF can dissolve you from the inside out, so I wrote detailed instructions for the other lab techs. Needless to say they ignored it all and poured HD all over the samples, and emerged without having their lungs carbonized or their hearts exploded like water balloons. I just didn’t say anything…they’d used up the HF, and I didn’t order anymore.
--red eyes are Radio Shack high brightness LED's, something like 5 candlepower (“5000 mcd”which is a hell of a lot for an LED. Fairly blinding when both focused on you)
--robo shoulders are cut out of a new plastic wastebasket from Wal-mart, sewn with strong synthetic thread to the shoulders of my old 1980’s SCA armor. I’d rather hang around in bars than be out getting whacked by 2X4’s.
--giant bosoms made from Burmanfoam Flabbercast urethane. They’re more realistic than even silicone or saline implants, adding to the scariness. Urethane is almost idiot-proof, you mix and pour, and an hour later there’s this wobbling pair of tits on your garage floor staring at you. You pause on your way to the cyclotron with another load of antimatter and say “stop…stop doing that.”
--robo sailor thing made from ABS, a most magnificent plastic for all purposes. You can just bend it and it stays, doesn’t snap or turn white with strain like styrenes. When you heat it it can form any shape you want, particularly with a vacuum table. Make yer own Darth Vader suit. But I had to drive to fucking Grand Prairie to get the stuff from way way back in a plastics warehouse. “Here we go, styrenes, LDPP, HDPP, hey, ABS.” This is what you have to go through to get just the RIGHT plastics.
--Whole suit is fairly easy to shed if it catches on fire, since it’s made of a number of independent parts.
--giant high heels made from vinyl mirror-surfaced shoes sold to chumps going to proms and stuff, modified with very long drywall screws put into the heel, followed by solid epoxy (Magic-Sculp, from The Compleat Sculptor, NY NY. The actual Magic-Sculp product is made by very nice but somewhat distracted hippies out in California somewhere. Save yourself some trouble and get it from the vendor, not the source.)
--pleated gang boss skirt from my sister’s laundry a few years back, I don’t think she ever noticed, since she dresses like me all the time anyway.
--eyes are a laptop HDD sawn in half. Face is made from that solid epoxy product.
--wig cost $USD. Colored by RustOleum bright red spraypaint. Wig is augmented by “YAKI BRAID” $1.00 USD at “Sam’s” Dollar Store. I have no idea what you do with three foot long plaits of modacrylid, but for a cospuraya and dollmaker, the shilst is very useful.
--red tape from Aldus chemical supply. It was originally used to mark the DANGER ZONE under the fume hood where you were supposed to very very carefully approach the bottle of HF. As you know, HF can dissolve you from the inside out, so I wrote detailed instructions for the other lab techs. Needless to say they ignored it all and poured HD all over the samples, and emerged without having their lungs carbonized or their hearts exploded like water balloons. I just didn’t say anything…they’d used up the HF, and I didn’t order anymore.
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