Hat

The purpose of the hat was mostly to carry my extra safety pins, which I knew I'd need. I ended up using 2; 1 to reattach 1 of my wings, another to shore up the tail of my friend the cowboy astronaut dinosaur. Ingredients: Party hat from my works 2 year anniversary, wire that came in a stuff hanging kit, heart-shaped hangers from the same set, the metal part on the top of file folders that holds the file up (aka the multitool: 1231 uses and counting).

Righty

Ingredients for both hands: End of duct tape rolls, the hanger that comes with fancy socks, black yarn, the safety tops that you get at the top of cartons of liquids painted with acrylics.

Lefty

Ingredients of muni sleeve: A transfer for every day of September including two of the odd ones you get from paying at the train gates, fast-passes for August and October, held together with clear packing tape, none of which was visible on the outside.

Sord

Sword ingredients: umbrella handle (this gave the sword the ability to extend an extra 6 inches!), spring from an executive style umbrella, about 6 months worth of toilet paper rolls, wrapping paper with snow-men on it saved from Christmas (faced with silver side out), and not seen but providing stability to the handle: the little white roll that scotch tape goes on (exhausted in the course of the project). Sword belt ingredients: Vacuum tube (allowed the belt to expand and thus fit around my costume to put it on and then contract to fit), bottom edge of my green blanket (which still has the top edge left; all others having fallen off).

Knight's Tunic

Ingredients: 7/8 of a red umbrella top (sowed so that the would spread like wings as I lifted my arms and held together through the power of sowing and bent paper clips), an old threadbare towel, the bubbly envelope that my new graphics card came in (each person was allowed to pop one bubble, if they asked nicely), the spiral of a spiral notebook, muni sleeve. The Knight's Hood ingredients: Knight's hood I found last Halloween, the gold/silver fancy cardboard thingy that some salmon came on (had to wash this SO many times to get the salmon smell out), and more visible on the back: the containers to two fancy tweezers with brands cut out held together with black yarn.

Leg Detail

On the left you can see the holey grail. It was a special cup meant for attaching to a blender for easy smoothies. A customer at my work wanted to return at as it was the wrong size. Unfortunately due to a new policy we could not return without receipt. So I promised him I'd include it in a junk art sculpture if he gave it to me, which seemed to please him. And yes, it has literally been poked full of holes. Shoe Ingredients: Old puzzle slip-ons that got dirty the first time I wore them, white shoes=bad idea; styrofoam that my monitor came wrapped in, lots o' ductape. Pants ingredients: newspaper, staples, painters tape, lemonade tops, bottle caps, old ripped pants that I painted in many times, my old debit card that broke and its temporary replacement (like totally a statement on the wastefulness of consumerism yo).

Front

Dragon Fighting a Freaking Panther

I've had the shirt the back was made of since the freshman year of high school. In sophomore year I got paint on it (hey, I was moron). My first year in San Francisco I tore it apart while grinding a giant metal lotus (metal-work not skateboard grinding).

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