Brain Death Costume
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
The arms go up and down, they are operated like a puppet.
Speaking purely from my experience last year, the best subway station for access to the participant’s holding pen is probably the C or E at Spring Street. It probably won’t require much too much walking. Make sure you exit on the east side of Sixth Ave. Last year, I had to walk all the way from the West 4th Street station to Canal Street along 7th Avenue in order to get in. I suspect even if you get off on the east side exit at W 4th you will have to go several blocks out of your way to get in the pen. If you are coming in late Canal street stops might be the way to go.
The official website says:
For all those in costume is on 6th Avenue South of Spring Street and North of Canal between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Alert ! ONLY enter the line-up on 6th Ave. from the East and South between Canal and Spring !
Start Making your Costume NOW ! Then,
JOIN US on 6th Ave. South of Spring St.
starting at 6:30 until 8. The Parade starts
promptly at 7, but takes 2 hours to fully leave the
staging area. Pick out your favorite band, make
a space for yourself once you get started.Logo
Play to the crowd !
www.halloween-nyc.com/
I got a comment on my Flickr stream asking for a scythe. I made a baby one, anything larger would have been too much for the arm to lift.
I added brains and hair to an old bald cap I’ve had for years. Pretty disgusting. All this is for the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade tomorrow night.
Brain Death is a McSame supporter.
this looks promising!
You’re off to a nicely unsettling start…
I’m going the easiest route possible, and totally unoriginal: Sarah Palin. Several of my co-workers will do the same. Tomorrow at Nature will look like a Palin-Stepford zone.
I want to hear your Palin impersonation, it will have to be wild.
That would be mixing a Bronx accent with Fargo and a little bit of Alaska, right? I can’t imagine what I’ll sound like. But I do like Tina Fey’s explanation of how she does it: https://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b64501_tina_fey_dissects_palins_...
are you gonna put a scythe on top of your steadycam?
A scythe would be a nice prop, but the puppet arms couldn’t support it. Hmmm, maybe a baby scythe. No steadycam, the costume is heavy enough.
I hope to see you, that’ll be something to hear.
Made a baby scythe out of cardboard and aluminum foil, should help sell the death idea.
that’s cool. looks like a cute scythe "accessory". death is chic. great costume.
This is total killer!
Creepy cool!!
I don’t know that I’ll be at the parade, although I’ll be around those parts. I may go to the start area, earlier on…I look forward to all your photos!!
I’ll be roaming around the less claustrophobic downtown part of the holding pen, most likely.
nice. I’ll wear my McCan’t button….
Ha, I haven’t heard that one before. Made me laugh, celso.
looks like fun – hope the scythe worked for you!
I was half a block away from my apartment when I remembered it….doh. The costume is so cumbersome that I didn’t even think to go back.
I had the scythe rigged so that it spun in my hand. Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t have it, the parade was so crowded, I might have poked someone in the eye.