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Almost two weeks ago now, Michelle's sister had herself a birthday party that was running the theme of Michael Jackson. She asked everyone to dress up as their favorite Michael, and I realized I don't really have one. Aside from that, I didn't really think I was cut out to try and impersonate the King of Pop. Quickly I came up with this. Not a lot of thought went into the construction of my mask, in fact, all I wanted was to stick little toy animals on my face. The rest I never really thought about, and the results are remedial at best. In any event, this mask is what happens when you don't plan ahead and make things on a whim.

Post Halloween

This Halloween was a chance for me to do what I had done every year before. Pull an outfit out of the old closet, add a new piece and make it work. Although I was completely unsuccessful in the past, I was determined to do it right this time.

With a little bit of make-up, fake blood and a prosthetic nose I transformed into a werewolf. By far my best attempt at a Halloween costume. Gone are the Waynes, Alex the Larges and B-Movie Aliens of years past, now it was time to make it work. The result it seemed was effective and makes me hopeful for next year's Halloween and plans for a bigger, better costume are in the works.

An explanation - Werewolves are supposed to either maul their victim or bite them, leaving them forever cursed to be as their attacker. Michelle and I changed it up and she was my victim turned zombie. It's not like she was just going to lay around dead the whole night.

Halloween

It is October 31st and officially Halloween.

I'm excited for today, cause I actually have a costume idea. I won't say what it is, but I'll post pictures come Monday morning. The last few years have been, well, less than spectacular (see above). I have yet to get back to the quality of my Batman costume. The sad thing is that I actually plan ahead for Halloween and things just never quite come together.

Amigurumi?

On the hunt for some inspiration I found this. I don't particularly know what these are besides awesome (I can't even pronounce, amigurumi).

The man behind these cute little...uh...yarn people is Sammi Resendes and you can check these and a lot more geeky fandom out by heading over to his fun blog where there are things I never thought possible.

Batmanny

Image Property of Warner Bros. Entertainment
Copyright 1989

October is three days away, but that hasn't stopped talk between Michelle and I over what to be this coming Halloween. With that in mind I thought I'd post a nostalgic image of me in my Batman costume from 2nd grade.

I still remember being in love with Tim Burton's Batman and strongly deciding that I wanted to be Batman for Halloween. With a VHS tape in hand and my mother on board to be my workhorse, I set out to have her create the best homemade Batcostume ever. This might have been my very first design job, I still have the memory of art directing my mother. Making sure that I got exactly what I wanted. I would sit in front of the tv and pause the tape and say, "Look mom like that." I have to say that at that time you couldn't just go to Target and get a $20 costume and call it a day. Mom had to make it.

Thank you mom. It's okay I didn't win that year's costume contest.

Geotrooper

Paper, Tape & Cardboard
6" x 6"

I was inspired recently and finally decided to take that inspiration and channel it into something of my own.

I made an abstract model of a Stormtrooper helmet using some Scotch tape and three sheets of white 8.5"x11" paper. I basically just wanted to see if I could make a three dimensional object. It's based on very simple geometry and symmetry, but I think the result seems surprisingly more complex.

The fun thing about this piece was that I sat and worked on the model while watching Return of the Jedi, and it's been a while since I've watched any of the three films.