For those of you haven’t seen the movie “Be Kind Rewind” you won’t have any reference for the term Sweded. Sweded, in the movie, refers to a super low budget remake of a famous mainstream movie done mostly with cardboard, and creativity. In a way it’s almost a mini film movement that touches on what [...]
I attended Bring Your Own Big Wheels, which is a race down a very steep San Francisco hill on childrens plastic tricycles. Sometimes in the costume, the participants were careening downhill at fantastic speeds. Some were even riding recycling bins, which, to my surprise, make great downhill transportation. It was truly a sight to behold. [...]
I spent some time sewing a leprechaun costume for Bunny Jam. The theme was the luck of the harish, so you could get away with not being in a bunny costume. Bunny Jam is fundraiser for a bunny themed Burning Man Camp. Here are some photos by Randal and some by Sandwich. The photo below is from [...]
I sewed a wedding dress out of an Ikea curtain and participated in an old Cacophony event called The Brides of March. The event is essentially a bar crawl in a thrift store wedding dress, but involves a lot of running around and playing. Here is the flickr link. The high points were a crotchety older man [...]
My house hosted the first official YouTube Gong Show recently. For those who don’t know, a YouTube Gong Show is when we download a whole bunch of Web Videos with a common subject (we chose creativity). We then show the videos to an audience with a giant gong and a mallet. As soon as a [...]
I took part in this years Urban Iditarod. For those of you who don’t know the Urban Iditarod is an old Cacophony event where a team of costumed adventurers set forth into the city towing a shopping cart like it’s a sled as they progressively more drunk. I abstained from the drinking part while still taking part in shenanigans. My team was organized [...]