Old Costumes

Still in the process of coming up with and constructing a costume. I need something that won't be time intensive, but also something that's original and shows how much I care for the spirit of getting in character.Presented here are some costumes from 2006 and 2008:

This demon costume was initially slated to be accompanied with black wings, but I never finished duct-taping those coat-hangers together.


Otherwise, it was a simple assemblage of body paint, hair dye spray, and a ragged black robe for the bottom. The scythe was some inked wood lashed to a large stick.

When all the soul reaping is said and done, the damned still know how to have a good time.


The party I went to was hosted by friends of friends of friends, and as a result I did not know who to apologize to when I found out that I got red face paint all over EVERYTHING. Ceiling, fridge, walls, other people, toaster, chairs, etc . . .


The mechanic butterfly is my friend Ross, btw.

In 2008 I went as a robot handed coal-miner. . . at least that's what I told most people when they didn't understand what I meant by "Steampunk engineer."


Here's a nice description of what that entails:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk


The vest, fingerless glove, and pick were borrowed items, but the rest was cobbled from leather, paper, and dumpster scraps with a hot-glue gun.

These goggles had lenses from my old 

glasses in them so that I could still see. 

The leather came from an old hat.

My robot arm was constructed of woven titanium, had a load potential of 400 lbs, and was capable of bouncing 30 quarters into plastic cups of beer in 23.75 seconds.


It also had clock gears glued to it. . . just for fun.

Productivity?

Shredder Shredding

-2007

-Pencil on homework

If you look closely enough at the scan, you can see the printed text of an old assignment on the other side.

Coincidentally, I'm posting this as a means of procrastination.

Ants are cool

Here's a big ol' post which includes several drawings completed during my 2 week trip to Borneo. If you're curious about the trip itself I can show you photos, but this isn't the proper forum for that seeing as I didn't take any of the photos.
Over the 2 weeks we got to know and appreciate the 13 professional myrmecologists teaching us about ants, and some of the students decided to put together a thank you presentation. Someone launched the idea of making a key to the instructors, the way one makes a dichotomous key to identify organisms. For those of you who aren't familiar, a dichotomous key is something like:

1 :  specimen has 11 antennal segments . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1': specimen has 12 antennal segments . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 : specimen has wrinkly buttocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2': specimen does not have wrinkly buttocks . . . . . . . Franklin

3:  . . . .etc.

It's like a chose your own adventure of knowledge.

We put together a slide show splitting out the professors according to gender, physical attributes like hair color, and also according to character and things that made them memorable. It was our chance to give thanks, but also poke fun at them in a sensible way. In order to complement the species descriptions, I made the following caricatures of the instructors:

I made them all a bit smaller so that this post wouldn't be horribly long; so please click on them and look at them at full size!