While this isn’t anything to do with work, I use this hobby as an exercise in meeting deadlines, staying within a budget and/or maximising what I can do with only what I currently have access to (whatever I can find in the garden shed).
It’s also a good technique for getting into creativity flow for business projects I’m doing at the time.
These are great prep for the props used in the Expedia Group hackathon trailer filming, while my kids are slowly becoming recipients of more and more outfits.
The Rick Sanchez costume was for my son at halloween and has a candy bucket hidden inside the Morty head that has it’s handle accessible through a small hole in the top, so the candy goes straight into bucket from the mouth. My 5 year old daughter stole the portal gun from him though.
Fake fingernails make great skull teeth in a dark room.
The Buzz costume has foldable wings, arm bands from plumbing and upside down trash cans for boots. I wore it to London Comic Con, and whenever I was asked for a photo afterwards I bellowed “TAKE MY BUSINESS CARD!!” handing them the folded pocket rocket. It just says “INTERGALACTIC EMERGENCY? DIAL 1-800-STAR-COMMAND”
I made up a bunch of the ghost traps for Halloween. They’re designed around some removable (washable) Tupperware I sourced so you can fill them with candy to offer to trick-or-treaters. There’s a flashing light in each one with a pink gel to colour the apparition.
The Bith costume was for an Expedia Group pop-star party, and I set up a QR code on the t-shirt and business cards that takes the user to a portal with links to the Hotels.com app and/or a YouTube playlist of Star Wars themed songs like “Seagulls! (Stop It Now)”- Here
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