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November 25, 2008
iprc text ball
by gl. at 2:26 pm
i've got a lot of blogging to catch up on, but let's start with the iprc text ball on nov08:
after seeing what people came up with last year, i decided to make sure i had at least a rudimentary outift to fit the theme "figures of speech." so sven glued cats & dog onto black paper and tied them to a tiny red umbrella i've had hanging around since burning man, while i put on my rainjacket & boots.
surprisingly, "raining cats & dogs" was not a costume anyone else had created! (in contrast, there were 3 "the cat's meow," 4 "butterflies in my stomach," and 3 "blind leading the blind" costumes). i got enough positive feedback to convince me to compete in the costume contest, where i won "best oregon costume," a prize the judges made up just for me. ;)
[raindogs keep falling on my head: photo by cj beaman]
[it's raining cats & dogs: photo by cj beaman]
[i'm a winner!]
but even beyond the costume, i had a lot of fun at the text ball. i was surprised to run into judy & tom from fidelio, the opera we all performed in (oh, i suppose that's another blog post). she "stepped into someone else's shoes" and he was exercising his right to "bare arms," for which he won a prize, too. but for those of us who are a little introverted, there were plenty of activities for social respite: giant crossword puzzles lined the walls and a game table with scrabble, boggle, upwords, etc. to play with.
instead of the unnecessary quotation marks i printed in chocolate last year for the food table, i drew the alphabet on wheat thins with squeeze cheese. they didn't last long. :)
i was excited when i noticed shu-ju's trixie the poetry car print was available at the silent auction! i, however, went home with soap. i bid on a couple of other things, too, but at the last minutes the bids exploded and people obviously wanted them more than i did!
posted by gl. | November 25, 2008 2:26 PM | comments (7) | categories: exhibits & events
Comments
I LOVE literalized figures of speach! And your costume is one of the best I've ever seen. Great work you two!
Posted by: Shelley Noble at November 25, 2008 6:15 PM
shelley, it's hard to capture in a photo, but i was really happy with the way the cats and dogs moved: they spun and and swayed and danced and leapt quite easily, so it was always in motion and hard to ignore me. :) because they switched from black to white, it really did give the illusion of rain.
Posted by: gl. at November 26, 2008 11:01 AM
AWESOME costume!!! Love the little dogs & cats.
Posted by: rebel at November 29, 2008 7:12 AM
Love the cats and dogs - did you and/or Sven draw them? they are super cute!
Posted by: Bridget B. at December 11, 2008 9:53 AM
thanks, bridget! sven downloaded them from a free clipart website. that's why, when you get a good look at them, the styles don't really match. the cats is an old woodcut that's been blown up, while the dog is a finely detailed cartoon.
Posted by: gl. at December 11, 2008 11:27 AM
Oooolaaalaaa, cute kitties and doggies, but I especially love your POLKA DOT boots! I have this "thing" for all things polka dotted, and I am coveting your boots . . .!
Posted by: Dayna at December 12, 2008 2:17 PM
thanks, dayna! i really like those boots, too. i got them after a pumpkin-picking expedition on sauvie island nearly sucked off one of my shoes and got mud everywhere.
Posted by: gl. at December 18, 2008 11:37 PM