Odd Costumes

On Thursday May 21 Costume Jim posted on the Kostume Kult Diskuss list that Odd Costumes was going out of business. By 1pm Stefan, Jim, Peter, Susan and many more were pouring through the treasure trove of goodies. The photos that follow here are Rick Raguso, Frank Raguso, Nick Raguso, Susan McIntosh and yours truly; playing around with just a couple of our finds.

Odd Costumes is open again on Tuesday morning at 10am. Get over there and get the choice finds before they're gone!

Steve Buscemi showed up about an hour into our celebration. He had a meeting and so he needed to split after a short time.


Getting ready to be picked up by the Wondermare Blimp.

Wondermare - Pass Through This

Synopsis
Wondermare is based on the notion that much of the behavioral conditioning programmed in our subconscious is the unhealthy byproduct of a world out of balance, a "house of cards" on the brink of catastrophe; the truth of which is obscured from us by our own myopic pursuits and illusions.

The exhibition uses as its setting the story of Alice in Wonderland precisely because it contains anecdotes about the rites of passage into adulthood. The tale consistently resists an easily defined linear structure and at the same time confronts the confusing and often nonsensical rituals that we must travel through in order to obtain a civilized or adult persona in the world we see through our looking glass.

Immersed in an eight-screen video landscape, gallery visitors will feel compelled to address the parts of themselves that are hidden, repressed and denied. As an interactive exhibition, the show creates the opportunity for a psychological rebooting or do over, where visitors will have another chance at addressing their own rights of cultural passage that they may or may not have gotten right the first time around.
Vignettes

The Beginning
The Birth of this Moment

Bullies
The Wondermare characters threaten and tease the viewer as they walk the gallery.

Meet The Terrorist - Division of Terror Control
Turn in your friends for your own safety. A ticking time bomb.

Astroheroes - Be The Hero You Were Meant To Be
When you get to the chroma key screen act out your inner hero.

My Breasts: My Rights - My Rites
A young person can shoot a gun but viewing love making in a movie is illegal?!

Feed The World
Juxtaposing the insulated rich across the gallery from the impoverished masses

The Zombie Minority
Get a real sense of what it's like to be immersed in Zombie culture.

Mad Hatters Tea Party (My Favorite Bachanal)
Tea cups filled with paint, anthropomorphic beings, beer bongs and a hedonistic orgy.

Smell The Flowers
Live in the moment with the blooming flowers blowing in the breeze.

Text Yourself To Death
The white rabbit leads us on a journey of people compulsively texting

We're At War! With Ourselves
Small children run around with toy guns imprinting evil deeds.

Body Dismorphia
Society doesn't like fat people and neither should you!

My First Time
A sexual experience

Religious Icons
Meet the cast of characters

The End
Design your own Tombstone