Kali Costume 2007
Here is my completed Kali costume. As the goddess of death and destruction, I lived up to her name by causing spillage and poking people in their eyes. I like that one of the flickr comments is that type of behaviour “is so Kali”.
I pretty much destroyed the costume in the process of wearing it. The arms were too temping and everyone wanted to grab them and move them around. They were built to sustain a good deal of abuse, but my friend finally finished one of them off at the end of the night. The nice part was that I could remove the bottom injured set and continue wearing the top set separately. I’m really glad I spent the extra time to make the arms removable. It’s too bad you can’t see my shoes in this photo – they were awesome! Some people thought I was Shiva, Ganesh and Medusa, but quite a few people totally recognized I was Kali. More photos on my flickr site.
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Photo credit: Nik Thavisone
www.nikthavisone.com
March 15th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Kali woke up in me a few days ago. I’m thinking of a costume in black & red. I’ll start with the necklace of skulls. Thanks for showing how to make extra arms, I hadn’t gotten that far. I do, however, have a speech:
HUMAN PEOPLE, I GAVE YOU THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE STARS, I GAVE YOU A SELF-SUSTAINING LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEM DESIGNED TO SUPPORT ITSELF FOR MILLENNIA, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH IT??? IF YOU HAVEN’T TURNED THINGS AROUND IN TEN YEARS, I AM GOING TO BOIL YOU, AND START OVER WITH SOME OTHER SPECIES.