The much-anticipated Black Widow costume was a great success, and the weather was perfect for being outside. What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than walking down a street lined with hundreds of people, all taking my picture? :D (Ok, there were other things to take pictures of, yes, but I bet I'm on a whole lot of metro Atlantans' digital cameras today.)
Chantelle's float with Boris the giant spider was lovely. We also had a huge lot of marching bugs, including a couple of butterflies, another spider on tall stilts, and a load of flies with gauzy wings and curly proboscises (and yes, that's the correct plural, I looked it up). There was a couple pulling a white-clad baby in a web-festooned wagon. I asked, "Did your little fly get caught?" and his mom replied, "He's a larva!"
The spider arms were fun for a lot of things--I spent some time conducting a marching band, and did the Macarena with the band front of a local high school band. Stalking the butterfly was fun, too. *grin* I had a grand time menacing people and giving come-hither gestures with the claws, too...small children would back away, their eyes all round, with nervous grins on their faces. A whole group of preteens wanted to high five me, and two little girls dressed as hippies shrieked, "peace! peace!" so I gave them the peace sign with two claws. I also crept up and stalked one of the cops on duty at the parade; the crowd loved this, especially when he suddenly noticed! (Luckily he had a good sense of humor.)
Aaron came out with
vatavian and
rslatkin to watch the fun. Lots of pictures here! The lighting is a little weird, bc they were standing in the shade and everything was backlit. I've brightened them up some with Photoshop. (And if you think five pages is a lot of pictures, let me just note that that's triaged down from over 250 shots!)
Chantelle's float with Boris the giant spider was lovely. We also had a huge lot of marching bugs, including a couple of butterflies, another spider on tall stilts, and a load of flies with gauzy wings and curly proboscises (and yes, that's the correct plural, I looked it up). There was a couple pulling a white-clad baby in a web-festooned wagon. I asked, "Did your little fly get caught?" and his mom replied, "He's a larva!"
The spider arms were fun for a lot of things--I spent some time conducting a marching band, and did the Macarena with the band front of a local high school band. Stalking the butterfly was fun, too. *grin* I had a grand time menacing people and giving come-hither gestures with the claws, too...small children would back away, their eyes all round, with nervous grins on their faces. A whole group of preteens wanted to high five me, and two little girls dressed as hippies shrieked, "peace! peace!" so I gave them the peace sign with two claws. I also crept up and stalked one of the cops on duty at the parade; the crowd loved this, especially when he suddenly noticed! (Luckily he had a good sense of humor.)
Aaron came out with
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