Beer belly.

Elegant costume.

Satan’s camel toe.

Lots of Santas, but watch the video to get a real idea of how massive this convergence in the park was.

Early on someone tried to climb the fountain.

Cheap but effective costume.

What is this, it does look familiar.

Santas strolling.

Mirror shades.

Hung by the chimney with care.

Bender from Futurama

Devil Puppetmasters of Hillary and GW.

Atlas

Dead convict.

The creepy king and the dead clown.

Club kids.
My Halloween Parade 2007 set on Flickr
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A test of some zombie makeup. It’s all natural: boiled mochi rice flour and green clay, with streaks of burnt cork for that Bar-BQ taste.

It washed out nicely with warm water, Dr Bronner’s and a scrub cloth, leaving the skin refreshed and my pores clean.

Update 10/21:

Here’s the disgusting effect in use, yesterday. The red is beet juice mixed with boiled sweet rice flour. I streaked burnt cork directly on my skin before applying the rice and clay goop.

Photo credit: unknown zombie
All Natural Zombie Makeup Recipe:
Mix 1/2 cup of mochi rice flour, with 1 cup of cold water, eliminate any lumps with a fork. Slowly pour into 2 cups of boiling water. Stir constantly for about 2 minutes over a low flame. This is easiest if you have two people, but can be done by one with dexterity. Take it off the flame and stir occasionally until it is cool.

Be careful, keep the pot on low flame, this starchy pudding will bubble like lava and burn you badly if your hand is too close to the surface. It is hotter than boiling water, and sticks to your skin. Use a long wooden spoon, kitchen gloves, long sleeves, safety glasses, lab aprons, or bio-hazard suit, whatever your adult supervisor thinks prudent.

You can mix this half and half with beet juice to make thick sticky edible blood. The beet pulp also mixed half and half, made a fine sticky scabby looking mess for applying around fake wounds. Beet juice will stain your clothes, but it hasn’t left a stain on my skin yet.

Mix in about 4 to 6 tablespoons of green facial clay with about 1 cup of the pudding for the basic zombie skin. This will stick very firmly and shrinks as it dries. wrinkling your skin hideously in the process. Then slowly, bit by bit it cracks and falls off, leaving you probably unwelcome on a friend’s couch without a prior shower.

You could probably substitute high-gluten wheat flour, corn starch, or even any old flour in your kitchen for the mochi rice flour, probably with the same proportions. But that is your experiment. The result should be sticky, smooth and translucent. It’s a starch pudding without the added sugar.

Everything did wash off, with scrubbing. The rice gluten in my hair required two showers. The burnt cork around my eyes gave me the hardest time, considering I had to use soap to rid myself of the raccoon eyes.

Fusion of Youth

Zuit Suiter

Collage from video.

Dance Parade Protests NYC Cabaret Laws
The protesters want the city to repeal the ban, which the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division upheld in February in a ruling against the Gotham West Coast Swing Club and several other plaintiffs.

New York’s restrictive dance laws have been on the books since 1926, at the height of the Jazz Age, when they were passed in part to stop interracial public dancing while enforcing a Prohibition-era definition of “public lewdness.”

To this day in New York’s five boroughs, it is illegal to get up and move your body to a rhythm in any locale where three or more people congregate and food or drink is served _ unless the business obtains a dance license. – AP

A couple of minutes of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade from the inside. My first You Tube video, and the first time I tried shooting video on my digital camera. Hopefully I’ll get better at it.

One Night of Fire – A travelling party that went from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge to the Coney Island Boardwalk.

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Stilt dancer on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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On the Coney Island Boardwalk.

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My friend Chris did a spectacular fire show, breathing great gouts of fire to tremendous applause, but my camera’s battery was getting low causing a very long delay between pushing the button and the camera actually taking the photo, resulting in a bunch of very dull post fire-blast photos.

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The ever great Hungry March Band.

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Dancing to the sounds pumping from the Bio Diesel bus.

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Glow Hooping.

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Hula Hooper.

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Breathing the smoke of some giant sparklers.

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See more photos in my Flicker Set or Flicker Slideshow

View a bunch of youtube clips from the event

Duct Tape beauty at the Paping Soapbox Derby – Near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. I asked this guy if there was a prize for the ugliest racer, he said no, but there is one for the most artistic. View Large

Spills, and thrills but no chills. It was a hot, humid, drizzly day.

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Bug fix – A lot of the race cars needed repairs after every run down the hill. And there were many runs down the hill. They raced round-robin style two at a time, so each vehicle (if it survived) went down the hill at least a dozen times. This “birch beetle” won most artistic.
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The Cabinet of Death took a couple of tumbles. No injuries happened as far as I know. View Large

Good thing the guy on the little red wagon was well armored, he even had a spine protector. The other one was able to replace the bike wheel, and according to one of the folks at Paping: “Morgan in his refrigerator door/bike parts mobile was in a huge lead when the cops came and threatened to throw us all in the “paddy wagon”. We gave the trophy to him.”
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The sole function of the guy in the back is to brake, by standing on a piece of wood that drags against the pavement. Good thing he never fell off.

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Photo finish

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Hold onto your hat.
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The one that got away.

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No way to win the heat when you are stuck on the ass of your opponent.

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Soapbox attitude

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New York’s Bravest.

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Victory!

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At the top of the hill.
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Ready.

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Go!

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The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges are in the background. And a skybridge for Moufle as well.

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Irena Kittenclaw has some great photos from the event.

Little Rascals make a derby winner -u tube – Via nickyskye on mefi

Here’s the plan: We meet in Minneapolis in late July with sections of our raft in tow. We piece together our pontoons and fill them with salvaged blocks of foam. We make it beautiful and tie on anything that floats, adding it to our junk armada, our anarchist county fair, our fools ark. Our precious cargo is everything we hold dear: pieces and parts of the culture we are already creating. Our zines and puppets, sewing projects and poster campaigns. Mutant bicycles and punk rock marching bands. Plus our thoughts and dreams and irrepressible energy.Together we float down the Mississippi river, as far as we can—all the way to St. Louis—anchoring here and there to perform, give workshops, and create the big huge stinking spectacle we wished would have stopped in our hometowns. And at each place we invite anyone to contribute performances or workshops of their own.

Our flotilla is built green with precycled materials, rainwater collection, solar ovens, and steam calliopes. If we make it right everything will run on sunshine and french fry grease. We want a floating garden, a bicycle-powered sound system, and wind-powered lights. We want to steal hippie technology from the hippies.

We are a small group of people with extensive experience making big insane projects. In the past we have taken 20-person bands to Mexico, pulled off town square-sized guerrilla theater in Berlin, and fed hundreds of people with garbage and love. We know this idea is ridiculous and impossible. That’s why we’re obsessed with it.

Via Workhorse Visuals