{"id":5586,"date":"2012-10-26T02:55:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2012-10-26T02:55:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T06:55:28","slug":"7-quick-takes-102612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/10\/7-quick-takes-102612.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes (10\/26\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since Halloween falls on a Wednesday, I\u2019ll make this week my costume-themed Quick Takes. \u00a0(But, for the pictures of my costume, you\u2019ll have to wait until Halloween proper \u2014 I\u2019ll just say the malarial red blood cells are coming along nicely).<\/p>\n

If\u00a0you\u2019re still looking for inspiration, here\u2019s a rundown of the crafting\/costuming\/inspiration blogs that live in my Google Reader (most of the titles are self explanatory:<\/p>\n

Cosplaying Children<\/a><\/li>\n
Nerd Babies<\/a><\/li>\n
Cosplay Blog<\/a><\/li>\n
Babes in Armor<\/a><\/li>\n
Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor<\/a><\/li>\n
Not Just an Armor<\/a><\/li>\n
Not Just a Witch<\/a><\/li>\n
The Costume Mercenary<\/a><\/li>\n
The Merry Corsetier<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n
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I\u2019m strongly in favor of architects dressing up as their buildings for Halloween (as per this io9 link). \u00a0D\u2019you think it would inspire them to design more baroque buildings? \u00a0It would be a little boring to be at a party of only Brutalist architects.<\/p>\n
<\/a>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n
Also costume-related from io9<\/a>, a delightful video about the development of the velociraptor costumes from Jurassic Park. \u00a0(There are people in there!)<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<a name=\"qt4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\nIf you need a last minute costume inspiration, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/wondermark.com\/true-stuff-the-earth-girdler\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the story of Paul Jones the Earth Girdler<\/a>, found at Wondermark. \u00a0People found out that Jones had a bet on with a friend that he could travel around the earth, starting his journey with no money and completely in the nude. \u00a0Technically, Paul Jones at T=0 is a very easy costume, but perhaps you\u2019d be better off dressing up as him at T=an hour or so:<\/p>\n<blockquote>At the appointed time, Jones found himself the centre of a large gathering of newspaper men, sports, men about town, politicians, and others interested. As the moment approached when he was to make the start, the interest grew intense. A committee took him into a private room, removed all money from his person, and Jones, himself, quickly stripped. A placard was now placed on the door as follows:\u2014<\/p>\nPAUL JONES \nSTARTS FROM THIS ROOM. \nADMISSION ONE CENT.<\/p>\nOf course, the fee was quickly paid, and the tall, athletic frame of a handsome man dressed on the Garden of Eden plan was now visible to the spectators.<\/p>\nThe crowd wondered what Jones would do next. They did not wait long in suspense. With the money that had been taken at the door, Jones sent out a paid messenger for some wrapping-paper and pins. The wrapping-paper soon came in, and with a big pair of scissors the ingenious man set to work. A few deft movements of the scissors, and the paper began to assume the form of trousers. The legs of these were joined together with pins. Then a covering for the waist was quickly made, and a sort of cape to cover the shoulders. The progress of the work was followed with immense interest, and the spectators were lost in amazement at the cleverness and rapidity with which the man worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a name=\"qt5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u2014 5 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s not only people who can dress up for Halloween. \u00a0Flowing Data has the details on <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2012\/10\/19\/xkcd-style-charts-in-r-javascript-and-python\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to make your graphs look like they came out of xkcd<\/a> if you\u2019re using Python, R, or Javascript.<\/p>\n<a name=\"qt6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u2014 6 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\nStephen Fry is purely delightful and Halloween themed in the video below:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephen Fry 'The Letter'\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SKdGwfMD8u8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<a name=\"qt7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u2014 7 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd I totally saved the best for last. \u00a0Lauren Davis of io9 <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5954767\/massive-secrets-of-the-hobbit--revealed\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">got to visit the costume workshops for\u00a0The Hobbit<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0 No cameras allowed, so we\u2019re treated to her lovely sketches. \u00a0The article warns about spoilers, but I didn\u2019t notice anything revealed that\u2019s not in the book (except confirmation that the \u201cChip the glasses and crack the plates, that\u2019s what Bilbo Baggins hates\u201d\u00a0will<\/em> be in the movie, but that\u2019s hardly a spoiler, as it would have spoiled everything were it excluded).<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s great about this article is that it spends a lot of the time with the technical work of making a character (yak hair beards, hobbit feet with cleats, etc) and<\/em> discusses the way the actors and the director builds up the personal idea of the character, and the way these two parts of the work inform each other. \u00a0Let me pull two quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>McTavish contributed an interesting bit of Dwalin lore. He recalled that Emily Bront\u00eb had two hounds named \u201cGrasper\u201d and \u201cKeeper,\u201d and decided that they would make great names for Dwalin\u2019s twin axes. (\u201cThat he grasps your soul with one axe and keeps it with the other,\u201d adds McTavish.) He suggested it to Jackson, and now the names are inscribed on the axes in Elvish.<\/p>\n\u2026In addition to their facial prosthetics (including fake ears that slip over their real ones), the Dwarves wear Dwarf-proportioned hands. The full hands aren\u2019t particularly practical for axe-wielding, but stunt hands don\u2019t have a full palm; instead they have a meshy layer over the palm that lets actors grip their weapons without pesky slippage. Thorin is the only Dwarf who gets full arms since he\u2019s sometimes filmed with his sleeves rolled up. Petite Lane slipped a disconcertingly realistic Thorin arm over her real one while we marveled at her suddenly wrong proportions.<\/p>\n[Quote from someone working on the film:]\u2026And one of my theories about why we also are more colorful is because the Ring hadn\u2019t actually been in Hobbiton now. In The Lord of the Rings, the Ring had been there, and had been tucked away in an envelope, tucked away in a special chest or whatever. But the evil and the menace, and the bad magic that that emanated, I think sucked the life and the color out of Hobbiton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFor more Quick Takes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conversion Diary!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2014 1 \u2014 Since Halloween falls on a Wednesday, I\u2019ll make this week my costume-themed Quick Takes. \u00a0(But, for the pictures of my costume, you\u2019ll have to wait until Halloween proper \u2014 I\u2019ll just say the malarial red blood cells are coming along nicely). 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