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cottonbuds writes "Apparently someone used his imagination -- with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements he created a fascinating Tron costume."
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If this is his usual getup I wonder what this guy's halloween costume will be like? Looks like his webserver's already Slashdotted too...
The type of trekkie that builds a life-sized transporter room in his basement.
Trekkie gone Tron?
Either way, too much free time.
...like that guy in the light cycle.
Light that thing up and you wouldn't have to worry at all about being a road hazard when trick-or-treating.
"Don't hit the program!"
The coolest voice ever.
Seems he built his webserver from the same materials...
Then I suggest tomorrow there's a blip about a Boba Fett costume, since DIY costumes information is worthy of news. ::rolleyes::
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For someone reading Slashdot on a Saturday night... like me.
Boy, that was quick. 2 minutes? 3 minutes?
"Apparently someone used his imagination -- with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements he created a fascinating - "
And I can only thank God the sentence ended with "Tron Costume".
slashdotting in record time..
Nuff said.
..a drinking straw up his nose...
link
someone used a link by BaumSquad from the Real Akira Motorcycle thread to create something "newsworthy".
TRON by IronWulf
I started out with the one element I knew would take me the longest, the helmet. I should mention that any time I have to work on a helmet or loose-fitting full-head mask, I use a bust that I created just for this purpose.
The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly.
The original helmets used for the film were a style of hockey helmet in use at the time, extended slightly at the back to hide the hairline. Since I couldn't lay my hands on one on short notice, I began sculpting it in oil-based clay over my custom-made bust. I used paper templates as a guide to insure that the sculpture maintained it's goemetric qualities, and to make sure the side details would remain symmetrical. Finally, a plaster mold was made, and a positive cast made with a cellulose-based material called Celastic. If I had it to do over, I would have cast it in polyester resin and fiberglass, since Celastic must be dissolved in acetone (which is relatively toxic if not handled properly), and must be sanded and filled before being painted and finished. Alternately, I could have broken the original up into sections and vacu-formed it, but we live and learn! The finished positive, after having been filled and sanded, was painted with a cheap, white, oil-based primer (which has yellowed with age - next time I'll use acrylics), and detailed with the circuit pattern. Lastly, the interior was padded to make it more comfortable to wear.
In the images above you see some of the painted circuitry work being done by hand. I could have masked all of this off, but it was faster to do it "freehand". The "disc", is a glow-in-the-dark frisbee with most of the surface detail sanded off, and new stripes scribed in and painted flourescent blue. The shoulder and arm guards are formed from Celastic in much the same way as the helmet, and attatched to the leotard with small pieces of elastic glued to the pieces and sewn to the costume body.
YORI by IronWulf
Visit IronWulf's TRON costume page for more pics and info.
TRON by BaumSquad
First thing to find was some armor. For this, I went to Play It Again Sports (the BEST place to get Halloween gear IMHO) Anyway, I picked up some Hockey gear, which looks amazingly similar to Tron gear. Some hockey helmets look almost identical to the Tron helmets. I found a GREAT helmet used for pretty darn cheap. Then I needed a chest plate because I'm a scrawny little guy and a plain tight T-shirt would have looked too wussy. I found a wonderful thing for baseball catcher's (maybe) and it was great. Had a big chest plate on it and some nice big round shoulder covers. Then I just got some Soccer shin guards to use as those things that Tron has coming off of his elbows. Just wear shin guards on your wrist, with your hand coming through where the foot goes, and the shin part running up your forearm, mocking the things that Tron has quite well. So that takes care of most of your upper body.
Then at Play It Again Sports I bought an old weight lifters belt to wear, well, as a belt. It defines the look a little better, though drawing lines on the shirt would work as well. And then I bought some old moon boots at Goodwill (okay, goodwill is
Wow, thanks for that.. *sigh*
I started out with the one element I knew would take me the longest, the helmet. I should mention that any time I have to work on a helmet or loose-fitting full-head mask, I use a bust that I created just for this purpose.
The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly.
The original helmets used for the film were a style of hockey helmet in use at the time, extended slightly at the back to hide the hairline. Since I couldn't lay my hands on one on short notice, I began sculpting it in oil-based clay over my custom-made bust. I used paper templates as a guide to insure that the sculpture maintained it's goemetric qualities, and to make sure the side details would remain symmetrical. Finally, a plaster mold was made, and a positive cast made with a cellulose-based material called Celastic. If I had it to do over, I would have cast it in polyester resin and fiberglass, since Celastic must be dissolved in acetone (which is relatively toxic if not handled properly), and must be sanded and filled before being painted and finished. Alternately, I could have broken the original up into sections and vacu-formed it, but we live and learn! The finished positive, after having been filled and sanded, was painted with a cheap, white, oil-based primer (which has yellowed with age - next time I'll use acrylics), and detailed with the circuit pattern. Lastly, the interior was padded to make it more comfortable to wear.
In the images above you see some of the painted circuitry work being done by hand. I could have masked all of this off, but it was faster to do it "freehand". The "disc", is a glow-in-the-dark frisbee with most of the surface detail sanded off, and new stripes scribed in and painted flourescent blue. The shoulder and arm guards are formed from Celastic in much the same way as the helmet, and attatched to the leotard with small pieces of elastic glued to the pieces and sewn to the costume body.
YORI by IronWulf
Visit IronWulf's TRON costume page for more pics and info.
TRON by BaumSquad
First thing to find was some armor. For this, I went to Play It Again Sports (the BEST place to get Halloween gear IMHO) Anyway, I picked up some Hockey gear, which looks amazingly similar to Tron gear. Some hockey helmets look almost identical to the Tron helmets. I found a GREAT helmet used for pretty darn cheap. Then I needed a chest plate because I'm a scrawny little guy and a plain tight T-shirt would have looked too wussy. I found a wonderful thing for baseball catcher's (maybe) and it was great. Had a big chest plate on it and some nice big round shoulder covers. Then I just got some Soccer shin guards to use as those things that Tron has coming off of his elbows. Just wear shin guards on your wrist, with your hand coming through where the foot goes, and the shin part running up your forearm, mocking the things that Tron has quite well. So that takes care of most of your upper body.
Then at Play It Again Sports I bought an old weight lifters belt to wear, well, as a belt. It defines the look a little better, though drawing lines on the shirt would work as well. And then I bought some old moon boots at Goodwill (okay, goodwill is probably the best Hallowe
Crushing dreams at the speed of sarcasm
...a drinking straw up his nose...
An essay on TRON Costume
To delve deeply into TRON Costume is an exciting adventure. The constantly changing fashionable take on TRON Costume demonstrates the depth of the subject. Though TRON Costume is a favourite topic of discussion amongst monarchs, presidents and dictators, its influence on western cinema has not been given proper recognition. It still has the power to shock the aristocracy, who form the last great hope for our civilzation. Keeping all of this in mind, in this essay I will examine the major issues.
Social Factors
Society begins and ends with TRON Costume. When blues legend 'Bare Foot D' remarked 'awooooh eeee only my dawg understands me' he was clearly refering to the impact of TRON Costume on today's society. While deviating from the norm will always cause unrest amongst ones peers, TRON Costume provides standards by which we may judge our selves.
Nothing represents every day life better than TRON Costume, and I mean nothing. It breaks the mould, shattering man's misunderstanding of man.
Economic Factors
Is unemployment inherently bad for an economy? Yes. We will begin by looking at the JTB-Guide-Dog model using the median instead of the mean, where possible.
Indisputably there is a link. How can this be explained? Well the cost of living has always depended upon TRON Costume to a certain extent, but now more that ever. In the light of this free trade must be examined.
Political Factors
Much of the writings of historians display the conquests of the most powerful nations over less powerful ones. Comparing TRON Costume and much of what has been written of it can be like comparing the vote of the man in the street with that of one more accustomed to TRON Costume.
One quote comes instantly to mind when examining this topic. I mean of course the words of style icon Demetrius Woodpecker 'Taking a walk across hot coals will inevitably hurt your feet.' What a fantastic quote. It is a well known 'secret' that what prompted many politicians to first strive for power was TRON Costume.
The question which we must each ask ourselves is, will we allow TRON Costume to win our vote?
Conclusion
In my opinion TRON Costume plays a large part in the lives of all. It fills a hole, 'literally' plants seeds for harvest, and figures show it's a winning formular.
The final say goes to the award winning Uma Zeta-Jones 'My Daddy loved TRON Costume and his Daddy loved TRON Costume.'
That's a fairly old page...while there are good tips there, one thing that nobody seems to have managed is getting the right green tint to the outfit. For someone wanting to try their own, let me suggest Krylon Fusion spray paint in the color they call Honeydew, shade 2335. It seems to be a pretty good match. Dying the bodysuit that color, of course, is a trick...and I haven't yet figured out how to attach ELwire to it directly.
Disinfect the GNU General Public Virus!
with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline... A drinking straw up his nose? That's an interesting thing to imagine. I haven't actually RTFA because I'm too lazy, and also I'm on 56k and can't be bothered, but think about it. How far up? That's what I'd like to know. Because I remember sticking things up my nose as a kid, but the things in question were relatively small. But...a straw? All the way up? Wouldn't that, like, create severe sinus damage, or something? Or wouldn't it at least look very, very silly? And which nostril? Or was it both? Was it one straw in each nostril, or one straw looped such that it went into both nostrils? How does he get it to stay there? Does he use tape? If so, how much? These are truly pressing questions.
Got to love MS dot bomb
Can Smeg!!! Will Smeg!!!
Can anyone else see a little blue glowing man inside of the server pushing a giant wheel while being whipped by one of those red guards?
Maybe I've just seen the movie too much.
- Sherman
1. Build Tron Costume
2. ?
3. Get laid by a sexy chic
Two other guys were linked in the article as having their own Tron costumes
Maybe somebody can clarify for me, but aren't the costumes in Tron just shoulder pads and 80's style hockey helmets with some weird effects and stylings? They sure do look like it when I caught it on TV the other day.
I used to think they looked pretty cool until I realized that. Now it's just kind of funny. It makes you realize that it's really just a bunch of fully grown adults running around a soundstage pretending to be IN TEH COMPUTAR.
Still a good movie though.
I recently got hooked on a Shockwave Flash game like Tron... enjoy.
h tm
http://www.cybermonkey.org/html/game/swron/index.
website text follows:
TRON by IronWulf
I started out with the one element I knew would take me the longest, the helmet. I should mention that any time I have to work on a helmet or loose-fitting full-head mask, I use a bust that I created just for this purpose.
The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly.
The original helmets used for the film were a style of hockey helmet in use at the time, extended slightly at the back to hide the hairline. Since I couldn't lay my hands on one on short notice, I began sculpting it in oil-based clay over my custom-made bust. I used paper templates as a guide to insure that the sculpture maintained it's goemetric qualities, and to make sure the side details would remain symmetrical. Finally, a plaster mold was made, and a positive cast made with a cellulose-based material called Celastic. If I had it to do over, I would have cast it in polyester resin and fiberglass, since Celastic must be dissolved in acetone (which is relatively toxic if not handled properly), and must be sanded and filled before being painted and finished. Alternately, I could have broken the original up into sections and vacu-formed it, but we live and learn! The finished positive, after having been filled and sanded, was painted with a cheap, white, oil-based primer (which has yellowed with age - next time I'll use acrylics), and detailed with the circuit pattern. Lastly, the interior was padded to make it more comfortable to wear.
In the images above you see some of the painted circuitry work being done by hand. I could have masked all of this off, but it was faster to do it "freehand". The "disc", is a glow-in-the-dark frisbee with most of the surface detail sanded off, and new stripes scribed in and painted flourescent blue. The shoulder and arm guards are formed from Celastic in much the same way as the helmet, and attatched to the leotard with small pieces of elastic glued to the pieces and sewn to the costume body.
YORI by IronWulf
Visit IronWulf's TRON costume page for more pics and info.
TRON by BaumSquad
First thing to find was some armor. For this, I went to Play It Again Sports (the BEST place to get Halloween gear IMHO) Anyway, I picked up some Hockey gear, which looks amazingly similar to Tron gear. Some hockey helmets look almost identical to the Tron helmets. I found a GREAT helmet used for pretty darn cheap. Then I needed a chest plate because I'm a scrawny little guy and a plain tight T-shirt would have looked too wussy. I found a wonderful thing for baseball catcher's (maybe) and it was great. Had a big chest plate on it and some nice big round shoulder covers. Then I just got some Soccer shin guards to use as those things that Tron has coming off of his elbows. Just wear shin guards on your wrist, with your hand coming through where the foot goes, and the shin part running up your forearm, mocking the things that Tron has quite well. So that takes care of most of your upper body.
Then at Play It Again Sports I bought an old weight lifters belt to wear, well, as a belt. It defines the look a little better, though drawing lines on the shirt would work as well. And then I bought some old moon boots a
Karma: Negative (Mostly affected by dorm trolling)
Sheezh. All you have to do is get a St Louis Blues hockey costume and.... make it more blue. Viola. instant Tron costume.
I will tell you this, once you do this, all chances of getting Anna Kournikova as your wife (a la Sergei Federov) are over. Keep it as a hockey costume to increase the chances of this from zero to nill.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Woops. But, yeah, I did make a Tron suit for Halloween a couple of years ago. Have worn it for each Halloween since. It turned out great, and I'm sorry to the guy at Tron-Sector that got slashdotted. It's a great site and I recommend it to all once it gets back up and running. Anyway, the full text of my description on how I made it is posted in here somewhere. My name in that is BaumSquad as well. I'm just sorry that you guys can't see the final products!! It's pretty damn cool, if you like TRON. If you guys are nuts to see it, someone with webspace can post an e-mail address or e-mail me at paul(at)thebaumsquad.com and I'll send you the pics from my version. Pretty rad.
Anyway, thanks for enjoying the work! And honestly, if any of you are interested in doing something like this, it's not THAT hard. Just take a weekend or so and about $50 in materials, and have a pretty damn kick ass costume, if I do say so myself.
The light cycle, however, will take a little more time and energy. (And no I haven't made one... YET!)
the link is slashdotted and i can't stop thinking about WTF this guy needs the vaseline for!!
I started out with the one element I knew would take me the longest, the helmet. I should mention that any time I have to work on a helmet or loose-fitting full-head mask, I use a bust that I created just for this purpose. The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly. The original helmets used for the film were a style of hockey helmet in use at the time, extended slightly at the back to hide the hairline. Since I couldn't lay my hands on one on short notice, I began sculpting it in oil-based clay over my custom-made bust. I used paper templates as a guide to insure that the sculpture maintained it's goemetric qualities, and to make sure the side details would remain symmetrical. Finally, a plaster mold was made, and a positive cast made with a cellulose-based material called Celastic. If I had it to do over, I would have cast it in polyester resin and fiberglass, since Celastic must be dissolved in acetone (which is relatively toxic if not handled properly), and must be sanded and filled before being painted and finished. Alternately, I could have broken the original up into sections and vacu-formed it, but we live and learn! The finished positive, after having been filled and sanded, was painted with a cheap, white, oil-based primer (which has yellowed with age - next time I'll use acrylics), and detailed with the circuit pattern. Lastly, the interior was padded to make it more comfortable to wear. In the images above you see some of the painted circuitry work being done by hand. I could have masked all of this off, but it was faster to do it "freehand". The "disc", is a glow-in-the-dark frisbee with most of the surface detail sanded off, and new stripes scribed in and painted flourescent blue. The shoulder and arm guards are formed from Celastic in much the same way as the helmet, and attatched to the leotard with small pieces of elastic glued to the pieces and sewn to the costume body. YORI by IronWulf Visit IronWulf's TRON costume page for more pics and info. TRON by BaumSquad First thing to find was some armor. For this, I went to Play It Again Sports (the BEST place to get Halloween gear IMHO) Anyway, I picked up some Hockey gear, which looks amazingly similar to Tron gear. Some hockey helmets look almost identical to the Tron helmets. I found a GREAT helmet used for pretty darn cheap. Then I needed a chest plate because I'm a scrawny little guy and a plain tight T-shirt would have looked too wussy. I found a wonderful thing for baseball catcher's (maybe) and it was great. Had a big chest plate on it and some nice big round shoulder covers. Then I just got some Soccer shin guards to use as those things that Tron has coming off of his elbows. Just wear shin guards on your wrist, with your hand coming through where the foot goes, and the shin part running up your forearm, mocking the things that Tron has quite well. So that takes care of most of your upper body. Then at Play It Again Sports I bought an old weight lifters belt to wear, well, as a belt. It defines the look a little better, though drawing lines on the shirt would work as well. And then I bought some old moon boots at Goodwill (okay, goodwill is probably the best Halloween store) Oh, and the disc. Of course the disc
...a straw up his nose...
...and a drinking straw up his nose...
Apparently someone used his imagination -- with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements
That's FIVE.
1 - Imagination.
2 - Plaster.
3 - Time.
4 - Straw.
4.5 - Nose
5 - Vaseline
Not exactly elements either, are they?
1. Used hockey helmet: $25
2. 5 yards of blue lame fabric: $53
3. Look on boss's face when you walk into the office Monday morning in full costume and yell "GREETINGS, PROGRAM!"..... priceless.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
....a drinking straw up his nose...
Well, my version had no drinking straws up the nose. That guy did that to make a plaster cast of his head, around which he could form his own helmet. I went the cheap/easy way and got a damn used hockey helmet from play it again sports. Mine is all set up to be "good enough". So if I could make it look 80% as good in 10% the time and energy, then that's all good.
"while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage."
/. ID is?
I wonder what his
On the sixth day at 11:59pm the lord created Knoppix and it was good.
"Little things hitting each other. THAT'S WHAT I LIKE!" - Time Bandits
Guy on Bike: "Peter? Is that you?"
Peter: "Yeah! What are you doing nowadays?"
Guy: "I'm the Red Guy!"
Peter: "Hey, I'm the Blue Guy!"
Or something of that nature.
That's right. All your base.
4. ???
5. Unemployed
That's what you get for hosting a server using .NET infrastructure (or whatever the M$ marketing apes call it).
I say BAH to that.
even formatting properly wont prevent you from getting modded down down DOWN muwahahahah
this is so gay!
"Why hello there, pretty girl. I have a level 60 Paladin on Everquest and he has a sword that does triple damage to Goblins and Orcs!!! OMG!!! And during my spare time, I made this really cool Tron Costume!!! Want to go out with me???"
your average slashbot. Feeling defensive, are you? Take the straw out and join the HUMAN race then, dork.
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No thx, I don't wanna know the rest....
Not the best way to pick up chicks mind you;)
I don't know how "short notice" he was looking for, but I managed to find several dozen hockey helmets *exactly* like the ones used in the 80s to make the helmets in the movie on ebay when I made my Tron costume. Took about a week to arrive, and a few days to paint. I'm certainly not as hardcore as he is, but MAN are there easier ways than plaster-casting your head and sculpting the helmet from scratch.
Still, props to him for going the extra mile...
Clearly this guy was using the MCP for his webserver, and Slashdot has about the same effect as a well-aimed deadly disc.
Anybody want a peanut?
What is CowboyNeal's normal Saturday night, Alex?
Courtesy of the Wayback machine.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
Maybe a T shirt with the catch line "My web site got slashdotted and all I got was this lousy T shirt"
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
No danger at all of missing spotting someone in that outfit late at night on the road!
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
See, this is why no one likes you. It's because of shit like this.
DJG - I don't know what to do.
I sure would like to know what I did wrong to deserve this. The thing that hurts the most is realizing that my fiancee never even loved me.
I am going to try to just continue the sharade that I don't know. Hopefully, that will provide me with the opportunity to go talk to the Police or something.
Nora is supposed to be in the Philippines right now, but I have no way for sure to know that. She has been deceiving me for a long time, it seems. I love her very much and I don't know why she wants to hurt me so badly. I fear for what she has been telling people. I don't know what I am in for. I don't want to watch the DVD - I don't want to know what they are trying to scare me with. I haven't done anything wrong and I can keep my head up high. The people who are doing this should be ashamed.
He's got nothing on this guy.
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
>> This just proves that lack of pussy makes you do very strange and desperate things.
Since time immemorial, men of high standing have known that abstinence from sexual intercourse frees the mind and stimulates the creative and productive impulses. Pursuit of sexual gratification only detracts from achievement in other areas (with the possible exception of automobile maintenance). This is why traditional English schooling keeps the boys and the girls separated.
True.
And if Tron-boy gets too bored he can turn his costume into a stillsuit and get lost in a desert somewhere.
"Simple words such as 'better' or 'faster' are best used by simpletons. Life [...] is more complicated." - TMC
Inspires me to try on a helmet without the drinking straws. or just pass the sedatives and the neon glowing plastic bag. It just doesn't get any more pathetically depressing...
Just in time for Holloween! :-)
I'll avoid any costume design that requires vaseline, thanks.
___
It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Fortunately the content is old enough that it's available through the Internet Archive
Momma's geek.
I'd rather get laid than parade around in a glorified leotard and having my mom apply vaseline to my body. Call me crazy but this is my take on the situation.
You got a group of culture junkies who will steal your highschool asskickings
:)
Why not just walk around with a sign saying:
________________
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| I, Nerd |
| NOOGIE ME! |
|________________|
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Its aroudn 1/8th the cost, just get a piece of bristol board or a stick, or just steal a campaign lawnposter or kick a hippie.
Gets your ass kicked either way
Drinking straw and Vaseline in the same sentence?
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
Please Shut the Fuck up
With sentiments,
The Slashdot Crowd
please pass along our gratitude to timothy as well
"Martin, you don't scare me". (ref)
Wow, this is fascinating alright.
Fascinating the same way people crowding hotels dressed in Worf costumes is fascinating.
In other words, this is morbidly fascinating.
It's a pity people can't "wget life."
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
Girl magnet.
I guess his swimsuit supermodel girlfriend was unavailable to help that day...
Here, have a TRON cupcake. TRON-themed snacks make everything better.
in the thread....
That depends whose nose you're applying the drinking straw to, and how.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Skip to the chase. Just wear a T-shirt that says, "I'm a big fucking NERD!"
Table-ized A.I.
1) Break up with the bitch.
2) Call the police. Take that DVD to them.
3) Try not to be such a fucking chump in the future.
Dr. Huncut Mici's homepage shows him in well... colorful attire. Also his cv and publications are worth a look.
I had a life before I got karma
...and a nerd with his vaseline.
with plaster, some time, a drinking straw up his nose and vaseline, combining these four elements he created I think it was the one where I had to use a toothpick, a ball of string...
I guess.
Pics
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Great. This sounds like something the Geocaching nerds would enjoy dressing up in before going on another important mission where you find balls of cat poop in tupperware containers strategically placed all over North Georgia.
That's what you get for having a sport where you do such exciting things as go to a predefined location and sign a book. "Woooo, GPS go beep!"
Don't forget to sign the log.
IAGREEWITHTHISPOST
Yes, I do. If it wasn't for the silly lameness filter, I'd have just left it at that.
Super Gay
There is a fine line between fan and super gay freak. They have crossed that line.
How can this man not have wife or many girlfriends call night and day? Dressing like TRON character very important, but must make time for play as well.
I suggest you read Slashdot
omg guys its funny becuz microsoft software sucks, get it? omg i spell it micro$oft because bill gate$ like$ money :D
HAHAHA That post was so WONDERFULLY USEFUL! Also, Microshit Winblows is CRAP! HAHAHA! That's funny! I am a fucking INTERNET COMEDIAN! M$ WINDOZE! I ALSO SUCK DICKS IN THE ALLEY OUT BACK BETWEEN SHOWS!
First off chumpboy, learn to fucking spell... It's "charade" not "sharade" you fucking ingrate. Second, you haveevery reason in the world to be scared. Having sex with mares is illegal in most states and is likely to get you life imprisonment. Yeah right, you haven't done anything wrong. That's what our chimpanzee president thinks to. I can't wait until he is re-defeated this Fall then the big post-presidential investigation reveals all the war crimes he and his administration hve been involved in. Same thing is going to happen sooner. When you turn that DVD into the cops, they're gonna haul your ass in for bestiality and possibly paedophilia. You REALLY should watch where you stick your Johnson, Nipsy.
Finally, get some new friends... in 70 years when you get out of prison. And take comfort in the fact that all the people who did this to you will be long gone due to cocaine overdoses that I've planned for them. You're the only one I coul never get to snort coke. Sure, you smoked it up at our parties, but you never snorted you bastard. If any of your crew DO survive after you get out, you can be guaranteed they'll be sorry specimens and won't really have much "joi de vivre". Of course, neither will you.
The best part was when a girl at one bar here in Chicago told me, "Holy shit, I'm related to the bad guy in Tron." I don't remember if he was her uncle or what, but it was an amusing coincidence.
Actually, here's my blog entry from the next day
I beat all these guys, I made a glowing Tron costume in 1983, the year the movie came out. Of course electroluminescent materials were far in the future, so I came up with a novel solution.
I bought a whole bunch of Cyalume light sticks, they contain a chemical and a sealed plastic capsule containing the catalyst that makes them glow, break the capsule and the chemicals mix. I tried to buy the chemical in bulk from American Cynamid but they wouldn't sell it to me. So I laboriously cut apart several dozen tubes (oh man was that expensive), and separated the liquid from the catalyst capsules. Then I got a whole bunch of clear plastic aquarium tubing and taped it all over my costume, looping everywhere in one continuous circuit. Just before I was ready to appear in the glowing costume at the party, I broke all the catalyst capsules, filtered out the broken capsule bits, and mixed the two chemicals together. I put the whole batch of glowing Cyalume into a huge syringe I got at a veterinarian, and injected it into the tubing. Then I clamped off both ends of the tube to keep it from leaking back out.
The glowing costume was a huge hit at the party, and I've used it as my excuse for never having to do a costume ever again, how could I top it? But a few years later, I was surprised to see someone copied my idea. I'm sure you've been to concerts or raves where they sell Cyalume chemiluminescent tubes, but not the light sticks, they sell something called "Neon Leon" that comes in long thin flexible tubes like the aquarium tubing I'd used. Dammit, if I'd only patented my costume idea, someone would owe me big bucks!
No dude thats 'regular sexual intercourse', abstinence makes crazy people - just look at high-school kids, old people, and this man.
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From the article... As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my MOTHER wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage
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5. Profit!
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SLASH!
Aah-aaaaah!
They crashed everyone of us!
This guy gets all the chicks, I bet.
Sorry to say this, but I'm gonna have to claim prior art on that costume. I wore the very same Cooper hockey helmet that was used in that movie when I played hockey as a kid. Sorry nerds, I win this round!
Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
They're not mutually exclusive. There are lots of women who are attracted to a guy who's *ahem* good with tools.
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Take my friend Gary, for example. He has a girlfriend Julie, and they're total fuckbunnies. You can't have sex 24/7, though, and he makes costumes in his spare time. He's a master costumer - everything from sewing and hot glue to body casts, vacuum-forming, electronics and mechanical armatures. The guy is a whiz. A 'Tron' costume would be barely a day's work for him.
And in spite of that, he's hardly undersexed. I saw him recently at a convention. I said, "Hey Gary! How's it going?" He replied, "Considering that Julie just fucked my brains out, pretty well!"
The sad thing is, you'd probably look at his (amazing) costumes, and tell him he needs to get laid more.
And to go along with it...how about a freeware game that emulates it??
Nice work but PLEASE use a cup, a dance belt or something if you are going to wear skin-tight pants in public!
"For god's sake! Think of the children!!!"
3. Look on ex-boss's face when you walk past the office Monday morning in full costume and yell "GREETINGS, PROGRAM!"..... priceless.
Looks like Tron's been getting his code updated by the guys in Redmond.
Next year try a cod peice or however it's spelt and everyone will think you're hung like a horse.
I didnt know a guy could have camel toe... ewwww
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