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Oct. 7th, 2024 09:30 amChecked the date for Nuit Blanche this morning and found out it was this past weekend. I haven’t bothered going in ages—after the first year or two it got too crowded to navigate—but I’d bought a Hallowe’en mask on Sunday that really cries out to be worn to something urban and nocturnal. It’s a cat mask of cheap plastic, but with pink pseudo-neon tubing that outlines all the features. It looks like a cyberberpunk bakeneko.
I don’t dare wear it around Andrew as even when the lights are set to steady they make a faint high-pitched hum that would probably bother him, which rules it out for Hallowe’en. In any case it doesn’t really give Hallowe’en vibes; it looks more like something you’d wear to a rave (says the woman who’s never been to a rave in her life). I’ll see if I can take some selfies with it later-- might at least make some good icons for this blog.
I don’t dare wear it around Andrew as even when the lights are set to steady they make a faint high-pitched hum that would probably bother him, which rules it out for Hallowe’en. In any case it doesn’t really give Hallowe’en vibes; it looks more like something you’d wear to a rave (says the woman who’s never been to a rave in her life). I’ll see if I can take some selfies with it later-- might at least make some good icons for this blog.
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Nov. 1st, 2022 08:25 amWent to work yesterday as a Sharknado – at least until lunch, by which time the gag had reaped its quota of laughs, and I was getting sick of having no peripheral vision. Most other people who’d shown up in costume changed back to regular clothes around the same time. The man who’d come as “Bachelor in Paradise” kept his suit and tie, but removed the giant cardboard dice he’d had on his feet.
Have some links:
Last week I heard for the first time of Herbert Crowley, early 20th-century visionary artist and later member of Carl Jung’s circle, who also briefly drew a newspaper comic strip called The Wigglemuch. This interview with a modern-day researcher reminds me a bit of Gemma Files’ Experimental Film: A Novel, from the initial fascination with a single image, unexplained in a coffee-table book, to encountering uncanny coincidences, to finding a cache of the artist’s lost works in a hollow tree near the ruins of his house. I’m glad to say no children mysteriously vanish.
No Harbour Keeps You Safe, by hwbswd, is a fanfic for some unused Rammstein album art (photo session documented here). The plot, quite by coincidence, is very much like Lovecraft’s The Temple, but with rather more sympathetic characters and about 600% more homoeroticism. You don’t actually have to know anything about the band to enjoy it-- you just have to like evocative descriptions of the sea, gothic-romantic narratives, dream logic, and the aforementioned (moderately explicit) homoeroticism.
Have some links:
Last week I heard for the first time of Herbert Crowley, early 20th-century visionary artist and later member of Carl Jung’s circle, who also briefly drew a newspaper comic strip called The Wigglemuch. This interview with a modern-day researcher reminds me a bit of Gemma Files’ Experimental Film: A Novel, from the initial fascination with a single image, unexplained in a coffee-table book, to encountering uncanny coincidences, to finding a cache of the artist’s lost works in a hollow tree near the ruins of his house. I’m glad to say no children mysteriously vanish.
No Harbour Keeps You Safe, by hwbswd, is a fanfic for some unused Rammstein album art (photo session documented here). The plot, quite by coincidence, is very much like Lovecraft’s The Temple, but with rather more sympathetic characters and about 600% more homoeroticism. You don’t actually have to know anything about the band to enjoy it-- you just have to like evocative descriptions of the sea, gothic-romantic narratives, dream logic, and the aforementioned (moderately explicit) homoeroticism.
Jumping on the Hallowe’en Hayride
Aug. 29th, 2019 11:55 amThe quality’s probably about what you’d expect from a novelty store, but it amuses me that there’s a Dana/Zuul costume. Might be handy if one needed an ‘eighties glam evening dress in a hurry.
The same place also does a Janine from the animated Real Ghostbusters costume, and reasonably-accurate (i.e. not micro-mini-skirted) Carmen Sandiago and Velma costumes, so at least the "sexy Hallowe'en costumes" are getting a bit subtler?
The same place also does a Janine from the animated Real Ghostbusters costume, and reasonably-accurate (i.e. not micro-mini-skirted) Carmen Sandiago and Velma costumes, so at least the "sexy Hallowe'en costumes" are getting a bit subtler?
'Fraid this is the only photo I've got so far. I'll post the non-blurry photos taken by the Steering Commitee when I can.
ETA - Appropriated from my condo's Facebook group:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22411134@N08/6300947274/in/photostream
ETA - Appropriated from my condo's Facebook group:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22411134@N08/6300947274/in/photostream
