A shlock Bioshock

It's been awhile since I did some bargain bucket costumes, this was for Neil as he was off to a computer game themed fancy dress party. He opted for Jack from Bioshock. I'm yet to play through it myself so at present I don't know my EVE Hypo from a Pipe Mania mini game, but he assures me it weren't a bad idea. I'm pretty sure this costume cost us nothing as we already had the goods kicking around.

Lurch went as the sexy Crazy Dave from Plants vs. Zombies:

Speaking of which, if you Bloglets haven't checked out Laura Shigihara's soundtrack for it yet, I highly recommend you do. Her melodies and style are quirky and delightful. 'Watery Graves' is dope.

'Ave a ganders at this poster kids!

Here's the poster! I took photos of the cast then edited it in photoshop. Thanks to the speed of the computer I was using and trawling the web for tutorials this took me till about five in the morning, then in my increasing delirium I convinced myself my keys were misplaced and proceeded to wreck my room in a vain search. This was only halted when I exclaimed 'Sleep, before the voices arrive.' A joke I'm sure. Originally the images were to be kept fairly photo-realistic but I decided to go further with the pulp style. I'm not sure if the QR code works so If anyone wants to be a dear and test it for me I'd be very much obliged.

FILM MUSIC: In Auteur of Appearance (My Friend Mingus)

In Auteur of Appearance - Written and performed by Carl Denham

Another track in the bag (more or less) for 'My Friend Mingus'. At present this is going to be on the credits. I recorded it in my bathroom and edited and mastered it on Garageband. Most of the images are related to the project so I thought I'd shove 'em there to stop your eyes getting bored.

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Poster for film festival

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Character Playlists

For a little but of fun (and I do consider this fun) I made a playlist for each of the main characters in the film. Every track is a nice slice of musical cake so if you haven't heard any I suggest you pursue, you could even make the playlists yourself and wander around to one of these bastards soundtracks (or sit down the choice is yours).

ELGAR

1. Ramblin' Man - Hank Williams
2. Big in Japan - Tom Waits
3. Isla de Encanta - Pixies
4. Verbal Anime - The Herbaliser/Rakaa-Iriscience
5. Haute Tropique - Man Man
6. Samurai Jack (theme song) - James L. Venable
7. We Are Not Alone - Frank Zappa
8. Flute Loop - Beastie Boys
9. No Milk Today - Hermans Hermits
10. Cello ~ Adagio - Elgar
11. Crying All By Myself - Wendy Rene
12. You've Got Maelstrom - Blockhead
13. It Ends (Ch 5 Light World) - Danny Baranowsky
14. Movement Two (Optzay Pertruder): Letter to Castro (Costumes for Tonight) - Gogol Bordello
15. Go Go Cactus Man - The Seatbelts
16. Everybody Needs A Ninja - Matthew Ebel

MINGUS

1. Nellie the Elephant - Toy Dolls
2. Troubled Friends - Gogol Bordello
3. Rhuubarbidoo - múm
4. Boogie Woogie Man in a Black D - Gabby La La
5. The Rhythm of Life - Sammy Davis Jr
6. Me Myself And I (OBLAPOS MODE) - De La Soul
7. That's What Friends Are For - The Sherman Brothers
8. Poo Putt Platter - MF Doom
9. Swing Set - Jurassic 5
10. After Laughter Comes Tears - Wendy Rene
11. Myself When I Am Real - Charles Mingus
12. Cuttin' Headz - Ol' Dirty Bastard/RZA
13. 환희의 도주 - Dalparan/Jang Yeong-gyu
14. Nature - Like The Animal You Are
15. Les Fleurs - Minnie Riperton
16. I'm Your Boogie Man - KC And The Sunshine Band

LOUIS TARANTELLA

1. Napoletana Tarantella - Traditional
2. Thief's Theme - Nas
3. Life Of Crime - The Weirdos
4. Protect Ya Neck II The Zoo - Ol' Dirty Bastard Ft. Brooklyn Zu,Prodigal Sunn, Killah Priest & 60 Second Assassin
5. Cunt Renaissance - R.A. the Rugged Man Ft. The Notorious B.I.G.
6. I Ain't New Ta This - Ice-T
7. Peepers - Polar bear
8. Smokey - Funkadelic
9. Purple Man - G-stack
10. Supervillain Theme (Inst.) - Madvillain
11. Wu Banga - Ghostface Killah Ft. Raekwon, The Genius/GZA, Cappadonna & Masta Killa
12. Little Drop of Poison - Tom Waits
13. Five to One - The Doors
14. Spitting Out The Demons - Gorillaz
15. It's All Over - Dead Residents
16. Moon River - Louis Armstrong

MINOR WALTZ

1. Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt
2. The Spook Walks - The Spooks (Joe Meek)
3. Problems - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
4. Put A Curse On You - Quasimoto
5. The Last Waltz (Mi-do's theme) - Choi Seung-hyun/Lee Ji-Soo/Shim Hyun-Jung
6. How's It Gonna End - Tom Waits
7. Meddle - Little Boots
8. Goodnight Moon - Shivaree
9. Dirty Night Clowns - Chris Garneau
10. Cuts and Lies - Acoustic Ladyland/Anne Booty
11. Repetition - The Fall
12. Tu Mens - April March
13. She Reminded Me With Science - Terry Scott Taylor
14. Bam Bam - Sister Nancy
15. Celebrate The Bullet - The Selecter
16. Freedom Of Speech - Immortal Technique

Concept Art, Again... (SPOILERish)

Here's more of those pictures I did. The last one suffers from being rushed and as a result doesn't adhere to a conventional human skeleton.

ELGAR

Concept Art

Should have probably scanned these in before I uploaded the photos but oh well what are you going to do? That's what I thought, anyway...

MINGUS

LOUIS TARANTELLA

MINOR WALTZ

Their names link to the photos we took. If you want to see more of my pen and watercolour nonsense go here I guarantee you can find a picture of Dumbledore fighting a Nazi Wizard.

Character/Costume Photos: Mingus

And here's the last of our main cast, James Lewis Thomas dressed as Mingus. I got the poifect little bear costume for him to mooch about in.

Character Bio: Mingus

Mingus was created by Elgar to deal with his loneliness but that doesn’t stop him being ‘real’. He knows he his here to cheer his friend up and accommodates accordingly he is fun, if a little mischievous.