and every year i break myself and get sick by burning myself out
on some epic excellence and expert costume activation.
this year was no exception.
i made my first ever full head helmet, in three pieces.
i used magnets prominently in place of velcro.
i had a color scheme and a coherent theme and a plan.
and all of it fit together pretty F*ing well.
i took elements of some of my favorite sci-fi nerd sh!t,
and fused them all together in the form of an original character
that took the idea of warrior poet battle-beast robobtrons to eleven.
like if gundam and appleseed combined, and crossbred with district 9,
to become a star wars bounty hunter,
you'd not be too far off from where i ended up.
ANYway,
i did what i do, and with
and the
we captured the essence of the thing.
thanks to all those folks for helping out and allowing us to make
the culmination of my month long project come to fruition.
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the symbol on his armor is the stylized OM.
he looks like a bug.
he's the omega cicada.
get it?
i made that shock-spear-blaster thing in half a workday just because
i was asked one too many times about what his weapon would be.
honestly, y'all are greedy.
i created and fabricated an entire personality and appearance out of nothing,
and everybody is just wondering where his weapons are?
i'm sighing on the inside.
if three people ask, thirty are thinking it.
that's the rule.
also, working men may not ever understand this sort of thing.
i mean, i have a creative job, it requires food for thought to work.
that's a fact.
i deal with ideas as much as tools,
and where a manly man may work with his hands to produce fruits from his labor,
i am not so different really, only in that i use my imagination more than sweat.
some folks might not ever put this kind of work into a one day thing.
i wouldn't put a single second into watching a sports game, so i get it.
this is something that sustains me throughout the year.
an outlet for all the restrained pain i feel
doing the same sh!t at work day in and day out.
costume making is an all creative, personally fulfilling
purposeful and empowered production of all those most excellent ideas
that ordinary individuals just aren't interested in.
i need it.
i've got eleven months to suffer for no reason,
and just one to suffer for my art.
non-makey people don't have to get it, but it'd be a lot cooler if they did;
never quiet, never soft.....
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