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Published On: Dec 09, 2003 10:43 AM
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Published On: Dec 09, 2003 10:43 AM
Report on Halloween
Halloween was a blast. Alley made a collection of
costumes for a group of up based on the Greek Pantheon. I was Hermes, Alley was
Medusa, Erin was Dionysus, and we also had Apollo, Zeus and Neptune. I was
almost going to cancel on the whole thing (I was feeling overworked and
completely drained) but I'm glad that I didn't.
Halloween was a blast. Alley made a collection of
costumes for a group of up based on the Greek Pantheon. I was Hermes, Alley was
Medusa, Erin was Dionysus, and we also had Apollo, Zeus and Neptune. I was
almost going to cancel on the whole thing (I was feeling overworked and
completely drained) but I'm glad that I
didn't.
One of the things that had me wanting to wimp out was that I couldn't figure out how to make any of the actual accessories that would define Hermes. Specifically, his winged boots or helm (different representations of Hermes have the wings on one place or the other) and the caduceus . (The caduceus is his wand: two serpents wrapped in a double-helix around a wand, sometimes with wings. As a trivia note, this is not the symbol used in medicine—the Rod of Asclepius —which has only one snake.)
I went to a crafts store yesterday and found some components to make my props. There was a cheap butterfly pendent that I was able to cut into pieces, glue some feathers to the golden wings and attach them to a garland crown. For the caduceus I first thought I would try to find a pair of rubber snakes and wrap them around a wooden rod, but I couldn't find any snakes. (They would probably not have been long enough anyway.) In the end I took some high quality RJ-6 coaxial cable that I'd used in my apartment-wiring project last year and wrapped two pieces around the wooden rod. I drilled small holes in the rod at various locations and ran some thin wire through them to hold the cable in place. I finally spray-painted the thing gold.
It's amazing how resourceful I can be when I decide it's important. It's crazy how impossible I originally thought the project would be and I completed it in about two hours! Anyway, here's a picture of the crew. I'm on the very right. (We have one non-God in the middle, I'm not exactly sure what Avid was supposed to be dressed up as.) By the way, you can click here to see a full-sized image.)
One of the things that had me wanting to wimp out was that I couldn't figure out how to make any of the actual accessories that would define Hermes. Specifically, his winged boots or helm (different representations of Hermes have the wings on one place or the other) and the caduceus . (The caduceus is his wand: two serpents wrapped in a double-helix around a wand, sometimes with wings. As a trivia note, this is not the symbol used in medicine—the Rod of Asclepius —which has only one snake.)
I went to a crafts store yesterday and found some components to make my props. There was a cheap butterfly pendent that I was able to cut into pieces, glue some feathers to the golden wings and attach them to a garland crown. For the caduceus I first thought I would try to find a pair of rubber snakes and wrap them around a wooden rod, but I couldn't find any snakes. (They would probably not have been long enough anyway.) In the end I took some high quality RJ-6 coaxial cable that I'd used in my apartment-wiring project last year and wrapped two pieces around the wooden rod. I drilled small holes in the rod at various locations and ran some thin wire through them to hold the cable in place. I finally spray-painted the thing gold.
It's amazing how resourceful I can be when I decide it's important. It's crazy how impossible I originally thought the project would be and I completed it in about two hours! Anyway, here's a picture of the crew. I'm on the very right. (We have one non-God in the middle, I'm not exactly sure what Avid was supposed to be dressed up as.) By the way, you can click here to see a full-sized image.)
Posted: Sat - November 1, 2003 at 03:21 PM