I helped my friend Kyle make this Sweet Cyborg costume for Halloween.
The eyepiece is from the guts of a VCR that I have had kicking around amongst my craft supplies for years. I really liked the way it looked and I knew it would come in handy eventually. The ear is cut out from a Barack Obama mask and glued on to some junk electronics. Both of these are attached to a thin plastic headband we got from Ricky’s.
Kyle did most all of the of the jacket and pants stuff himself and it turned out great. I was pleased to be able to make good use of my special black safety pins and super thick giant spool of industrial black thread. It was nice to have an excuse to buy myself a new coping saw, and I really enjoyed helping kyle get his craft on.
I will probably post more pics when I get them, but here is a link to the special tumblr we made to share links about cyborgs during the process. We started talking about this costume way back in March, but we didn’t really start building it until october, and it took 2 Saturdays.
He turned out awesome, and it sounds like this is going to be a multi-year effort where he’ll add more and more to the costume each Halloween until the singularity.
I love Halloween.
