This video of Merce Cunningham’s ‘Scenario’ is a lovely thing to look at first thing in the morning AND its costumes by Rei Kawakubo gave us inspiration for Halloween creations. But the best costume idea we’ve heard was from Chris Eldredge.
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As fall turns inexorably toward winter, the Day of the Dead festivities serve to help us re-experience
a powerful and sustaining truth: that the intense sorrow of death and the intense joy of living are indivisibly
and forever, One.
Haven’t gotten your Halloween act together? Here are some alternatives to the traditional carved pumpkin that you can do in time for Halloween, one of the BEST holidays for the wild creativity that is in evidence everywhere. A re-envisioned pineapple makes the perfect scary face… …Traditional Cornish jack-o’-lanterns were carved from turnips. Dig this baby:
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Halloween is Friday, and we’re anticipating many examples of The Art of the Pumpkin. As with other materials-for-making, pumpkins inspire what to do IF we “listen to that which wants to be done“, a la Anni Albers. If the message is unclear, or you’re feeling uninspired, here are some unusual jack-o’-lantern examples to spark your imagination.
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We love this beauty of a costume: the Horseman from 1960 Jean Cocteau film, ‘Testament of Orpheus’. And with it we wish you H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N!
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Need some inspiration for a Halloween costume? Check out this inspiring slideshow of costumes devised for Oskar Schlemmer‘s Bauhaus fetes in the 1920’s. Quelle imagination! We especially love the clever illusion, below. Could there have been florescent paint in those days?
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The kid in us demands that we celebrate Halloween despite all that’s happened recently, even if it’s only in our imagination. Speaking of our inner children, here’s Saturday Night Live’s Stuart Smalley’s crazy-funny Halloween affirmations (video link here — turn the sound off while you wait out the ad):
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Make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan has made an inspiring series of masks using only two elements: black and white grease paint. The one is our favorite. Though this one is pretty swell:
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