Halloween, Phases 2 and 3

Hi folks -- first off, there is going to be very little (read: none) AIM Pages-specific material in this blog entry; it's a Halloween followup entry, continuing on my Halloween, Phase 1 entry from yesterday. (I'd planned on blogging Phases 2 and 3 as I went along yesterday, but that didn't quite work out.)

So, when last we left it, I'd gotten some ghoulish makeup from my teammate Amy (AmyLARPer).

Along the way, we added some greenish blotches. Here, you can see pretty much the finished makeup, along with three of my AOL Community teammates:

This is in Carol's cubicle. Click the photo to see it in my AOL Pictures public gallery.

From left-to-right, that's Amy, Carol (AIMGameGirl), me, and Kelly (NETGIRRLAIM).

As an aside, with the baseball cap on, I think I look kind of like one of the Baseball Furies from The Warriors.

There are a bunch more photos I took of the ladies (sorry, I guess the proper term is "dames"); you can see them in my AOL Pictures public gallery (AOL Pictures: New features! Unlimited photo storage for use in your blog, AIM Pages profile, MySpace page, e-mails, wherever! All free! Try it today!)

Phase 2 of the costume deployment involved abusing company resources (the color printer, though I bought my own sticker paper), to print out some decals that I'd made up -- these were for sticking to my costume, which was an old white Tyvek jumpsuit:

You can't really see it here, but I mention two nuclear power plants: Shoreham (which never went into commercial operation) and Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from The Simpsons.

Costume Deployment, Phase 3 had to wait until the very end, since it involved mixing up some fake blood, and I didn't want my cubicle to look like a CSI set.

I'd brought my own supplies and followed one of the many fake blood recipes online:

Corn syrup, food coloring and the finished product. Also, you can see the stage makeup in front.

I kind of botched the blood (too much blue food coloring), but I don't think it really mattered.

Anyway, put it all together, add a few props and that was my costume -- a radioactively reanimated zombie:

Brains. Brains, I say.

Just for the record, I am not anti-nuclear power. With emerging new technologies, it may be a viable, non-greenhouse gas emitting alternative for generating power. I just wanted to be a radioactive zombie.

So, anyway, that was my Halloween. I'm going to try to create and embed a woohoo pictures widget for my profile (the new AOL Pictures lets you create a woohoo directly from the picture picker), so I'll let you know how that goes.

Okay, Halloween is over. Back to AIM Pages news and updates soon.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: hallowee, costumes, radioactive zombies, aol pictures, aim pages

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#6 Comment from xohenn122592xo7
11/15/06 12:48 PM | Permalink

hey wats up nuttin much sittin here in skool well yea today is a funn day but yeah ne-wAys i am boried so0 talk to u lada....
#5 Comment from aimpagesteamEntry Author
11/6/06 10:29 AM | Permalink

Um, that's all me. Now where's the Visine? -- Joe
#4 Comment from mavarin
11/4/06 11:17 PM | Permalink

Very, very well done, Joe. Are the eyeballs in the glasses?
#3 Comment from adam
11/3/06 5:06 PM | Permalink

oops, didn't realise the comments can't handle HTML.....sorry :)
#2 Comment from adam
11/3/06 5:05 PM | Permalink

With regards to pictures, I recently tried out the <a href="http://modules.aimpages.com/moddirus/moduleDetail?module=fotodex&category=user&sort=Title">fotodex module</a> from <a href="http://www.coedit.co.uk/portfolio/aimpages/">Coedit</a> and it is pretty nice - a little flashier than the standard gallery and it worked just fine with both my Flickr and AOL Pictures feeds.

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