{"id":4457,"date":"2012-04-16T21:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2012-04-20T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:05:58","slug":"burning-man-costume-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/burning-man-costume-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man Costume Part 5."},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get to that, a friend of mine showed me a video of a Kinect game where you are either Darth Vader or that nasty shriveled Emperor and you have… a dance-off. I don’t know why this exists. The whole thing was really funny, but at the end, I cracked up and I made an animated gif of the exceptionally amusing portion.<\/p>\n

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Happy dancing stormtroopers! Get down witcho’ bad selves!<\/p>\n

Okay, costume. I hemmed the skirt that Snorth made for me (thank you, Snorth) and painted it brown and more brown and gold. Then I covered it with wee magenta dots so it would somewhat match the jacket bit. It’s okay that the magenta dots aren’t exactly the same because the skirt and jacket will be covered by a plethora of sea beasts. I took one picture with flash and one picture with natural light. Neither one is completely accurate, but it definitely gives you an idea.<\/p>\n

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I trimmed the jacket sleeves and the back panel and added all kinds of froofy-foo. Seaweed, glass beads, some fabric paint and some green sequins. I’d like you to note that nowhere am I using any crystal. No crystal beads and no rhinestones. There’s a reason for that, it’s very simple. The reason why is once you encrust something in rhinestones, it immediately becomes awesome. Anything<\/em>. See image below.<\/p>\n

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What do we have here: a tape dispenser, a toilet, a wee bottle of Vaseline? You get my point. So in order to make this a challenge for myself I decided no crystal of any kind, and no precious stones. Some glass, mostly plastic, a lot of fabric. It’s a challenge for me because it’s out of my comfort zone, but I like that. I’m attempting to do that famous quote:<\/p>\n

\u201cDo one thing every day that scares you.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Eleanor Roosevelt<\/em><\/p>\n

So, yeah, sleeves. I tried to find alternative ways to make it spectacular without being bejeweled. I also took pictures of the sleeves with and without flash to give you a better understanding of the look I’m going for.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And finally, tube worms! Who doesn’t like a good tube worm? Bad people, that’s who. These guys are going on my hat with the sea anemone. The ugly bases will be covered by kelp and whatnot. Maybe some mussels if I have the time.<\/p>\n

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I still have a million things to do (the giant crab that goes on my hip isn’t going to make itself) but I feel like I’m getting somewhere. I can see the finished product a little bit better in my head now.
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Before we get to that, a friend of mine showed me a video of a Kinect game where you are either Darth Vader or that nasty shriveled Emperor and you have… a dance-off. I don’t know why this exists. The whole thing was really funny, but at the end, I cracked up and I made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burning-man","category-my-artdesignbusiness","category-teh-intarwebz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4480,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}