Labyrinth Family Costume: This is our entire family, dog included, dressed in Labyrinth costumes that I made.
UPDATE: NEW clearer photos taken with the Canon camera I forgot the first time I went with NEW information (like how it closes, and how the lace is done, as well as where some of the bodice seams d…
What if it wasn't Sarah that enter the Labyrinth. But instead her best friend (Y/n) who mistakenly wished their baby brother, Toby, away to the Goblin king. Will the tale end up the same with (Y/n) or will it end very differently? One way to find out. ~But I'll be there for you~ ~As the world falls down~ [Image found on Tumblr. The account called; ladyofw So, credit to them. Cheers] {Reader is gender neutral} Ranks 1st in Jareth x reader - 31/01/2019 4th in David Bowie - 18/03/2019 3th in Jareth - 11/04/2019 1st in Gender - 12/04/2019
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A candid moment between David Bowie and his look-alike stuntman Nick Gillard on the set of ‘Labyrinth.’ As Halloween approaches I’ve become more and more convinced that this year will bring a cavalcade of David Bowie fans dressed as various personas developed by the Thin White Duke over his long career. Even yours truly is planning on “becoming Bowie” on October 31st and I’m so committed to my quest to look like Aladdin Sane that I’m planning on dying my hair bright red for the occasion. Now that’s dedication. My month long homage to all things Halloween also includes watching as many horror films that I can fit into a 31-day period (which isn’t a huge departure as I’m actually a year-round die-hard horror film fan) and this year it seemed fitting to throw one of my favorite films into the mix: David Bowie as the unforgettable villain “Jareth” in the 1986 flick Labyrinth. Originally director Jim Henson was seriously considering at other musicians for the role—Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and Sting (as well as David Lee Roth and Roger Daltrey)—that would ultimately go to Bowie. Henson also gave thought to the...
Labyrinth Eyes
For Queen Clams New Years Eve masquerade ball I was made to design me and Jo some sweet fire gang gogo ensembles. It took a lot of orange paint but I did it. If you haven't seen Labyrinth, here is the clip from the movie with the muppets I had to work off of: I was smart and photographed my…
After a panicky sprint toward the finish line, John and I have managed to get our Junk Lady about 95% done - which is good enough for some pictures, right? Let's start with a quick video of this "poultry in motion:' [snerk] (See the chicken?) Now some still shots: (Taken with my phone, sorry for the not-great quality.) I'm sure you've already spotted my most obvious Easter Egg on the back, right? ('ELLO!) Closeups of that to come, further down. Now let's break down some of these prop components, because you NEED to see John's workmanship on this stuff. The chair is the most important/recognizable part of the junk pile, and after comparing proportions we realized it was actually a child's size. (Which makes sense, given Junk Lady's love of childhood cast-offs.) Here's a movie reference shot: (This and our own blurry screen caps were pretty much all we had to work with, so just figuring out what to make was a challenge!) Since finding that exact chair in a child's size would be next to impossible, John made one himself from PVC pipe, which - who knew? - can be bent when heated with a heat gun. The center supports are thin wooden dowels, and then that black rubber tubing on the right became the extra "wicker" trim: After a quick paint job and aging, you'd never know this thing was fake. And as a bonus, it's much lighter than a wicker chair, too. John was so fast with his garage builds I couldn't keep up, picture-wise, but here's his EVA foam drum: After this he used domed furniture tacks and string to make the lacing. Here's a screenshot of the drum in the movie: Also in that shot you can *just* see a candle stuck onto a brown canvas bag of some sort. Here's ours: John made the satchel from a thrift store blanket (heavily painted & distressed) wrapped around cardboard and foam. Again, nice and light. And that wrench? That's pink insulation foam, carved & painted. To build up the candle wax John used hot glue and real wax, and the candle also has a dowel in it, for strength. We found this perfect vintage saw for $1.50 at a thrift shop, and here's my favorite part: we replaced the old rusty blade with plastic poster board. We cut a new blade edge with pinking shears, added some paint, and voila! An almost completely weightless - and safe! - prop saw blade. Remember that convo John and I had about the abacus? Here it is: Beautiful, right? John built the frame and base-coated everything, then I handled making the fake clock face and all the distressing. John also sewed that water skin from scrap vinyl and faux suede we had around. In fact, a shocking amount of these props were made from things we already had on hand, which made it extra fun. Here's the side angle movie shot: The abacus is waaaay down on the bottom right. You can only just see it once or twice when she turns around. Another of my favorite props is John's rat trap, which hangs next to and behind her head: John made it with a stiff wire base wrapped with glued twine. The door even opens! Again, all materials John already had in the garage, and it weighs practically nothing. To top it off, I found a toy rat plush at the thrift store to keep inside. Of all the things we had to find, we figured the chess board would be the easiest - so of course it was the hardest. In the end, John had to paint our own over a vintage Backgammon board: ... which I then distressed. (That canteen is NOT done, so please excuse the shine. It's another from-scratch John build, and will be appropriately grungified soon, promise.) All of the cookware, tins, wicker accent bits, cutlery, & stuffed animals are thrift store finds, which we distressed with spray paint and sanding. In my last post I mentioned Junk Lady could be worn two ways: on our backs or on her custom rolling cart. Here's John testing the back method: ...which looks hilarious, of course, but once we wrap her skirts around his waist (which are velcroed onto the cart for easy removal), the proportions will work. We plan to use the cart most of the time for comfort, but it's nice to have this option. Junk Lady and her arms are on a removable PVC frame, which hangs from the top section. This allows relatively easy access when we need to suit up. We went through three different shirts for Junk Lady before my "AHA!" moment realizing she's wearing a ruffly linen ren-fair style thing. (It is VERY hard to tell in the film.) We had to make our own, of course, from a thrifted linen blouse. We cut out the back, and used that material to construct extra wrist cuffs and ruffles down the front: Lots of different colored spray paint to age it down, and she's looking nice and goblin-y. Next I added some creasing where her waist would be, to help the illusion of her being stooped over. The shawl was an eventual solution to a real head-scratcher: how to hide the sides of the rolling cart while still looking like it was all Junk Lady's body back there. She does wear a gray shawl in the film, but we never see below her waist, so there's no way to know how long it is. We chose to make the shawl floor length to serve our purposes, cutting slits for her arms to pull through to help hide those cart sides. That shawl, btw, is yet another thrift-store find: a $2 baby blanket we cut in half, re-attached to make one long rectangle, then spray-painted gray. Now let's talk about more of MY builds. Like the worm: He started out like this: Just a wad of tape-covered aluminum foil with two furniture tacks for eyes. From there it was all paper clay sculpting again. (I tried to give him a slight smile, but he really looks like one of Ursula's Poor Unfortunate Souls here. Ha!) The segments were surprisingly time-consuming. Painting. I later used clear nail polish over the eyes to give them a realistic shine, and then I cursed my way through adding the hair, which was spray-painted bits of a $1 blue clip-in piece. (John drilled small holes in his head for the hair, but that was only partially successful.) The original plan was to mount Worm right on top of Junk Lady's head, because I thought the contrast of happy worm vs grumpy goblin would be hilarious. Once we tested it, though... ...we realized Worm would be ALL you'd see. He's just too bright and colorful - way too distracting. So Worm got relocated to the back, perched on the edge of a cornucopia, which looks like a nice hidey-hole for a worm to live in, anyway. Plus he makes for a fun surprise when she turns around: Oh, and that scarf? I had to hand stitch the entire band to get that little crease in it, because the felt was so stiff. Why must everything be so hard. (Oh who am I kidding: this whole thing has been a total blast.) My other completed Easter Eggs so far: Then pendant is more pink insulation foam topped with a decorative button, and the book is a faux-leather cover I made from chipboard and hand painted: [Insert mini rant here about how every reproduction Labyrinth cover I could find online is wrong, uses the wrong roses, the wrong oval shape... JUST WRONG I SAY. So I had to muddle through trying to make my own. Here's the screen shot I used for reference: Mine's a long way from perfect, but google "Labyrinth book cover" and compare, and you'll see why I had to make my own. (End Mini-Rant.) Oh, and my cover has the novelization of Labyrinth inside, because even though no one can see it, it makes me happy, dangit. I also made the grody dead chicken: ... by painting a rubber chicken and gluing a bunch of feather to it. Feathers, I might add, that John harvested from one of my favorite pillows. (But he sewed it back up, so I guess it's ok.) I think the chicken still needs a little more aging. Like I said, we're still only 95% done. We have a few more props to build (though some of my more elaborate Easter Egg ideas will have to wait 'til Dragon Con), and I need to get these spider webs sorted out. Turns out party-store spider webs are SO HARD TO INSTALL. So we've ordered a theater-quality spiderweb blower last minute - a $30 splurge, but this is the icing on top, so to speak, so we really want it perfect. If the blower doesn't arrive in time, though, I'll have to make do with these cotton webs, so I'm trying to make them work. This is my face working with these webs: Oh! Which reminds me: I redid her hair. Better, right? I added some curls and more rattiness to make it a little more screen-accurate: You can see here I also matched her pupil color. (If you missed it, my last post detailed all of my Junk Lady face & hand sculpting/construction.) So that's our nearly-done Junk Lady! All told, I think we've spent around $200 on her, with the majority of the cost going to PVC pipe (for the frame), various hardware clips, wire, burlap, rope, and lots and LOTS of thrift store finds. We supplemented quite a bit of raw materials we already had*, though (paints, clay, fabric, etc.), so I'd put her total material cost well over $250. Still, as cosplay expenses go, that is a BARGAIN. [*Random Fun Fact: Junk Lady's bedroll behind her head is an intact Jawa robe John made me last year, before I realized even I am too tall for a Jawa.] Update For FAQs: - Junk Lady weighs 37 pounds if worn, and just over that with her PVC cart. Not too heavy at all for a big guy like John, but we still plan to keep her on the cart most of the time for stability/comfort. - Yes, we can see! And better than you'd think, since the burlap is see-through up close. I even have peripheral on one side, which is nice. That said, we'll still be swapping off being a full-time handler, since Junk Lady is the definition of "Wide Load." - Extra features I didn't mention: there is a small ventilation fan on top (it is HOT in there), and we've wired her for sound with a Blue Tooth speaker, which the non-costume-wearer can operate with his/her phone. No cupholder inside yet, though. ;) **** John and I hope to have Junk Lady out Friday and possibly/probably Saturday at MegaCon this weekend, so keep an eye (and an ear) out for a lurching, clanging pile of junk. (We also have some audio surprises in store.) I will of course take better quality photo then, too, and maybe even some video of her out in the crowd. And for you Dragon Con-goers, we plan to have her there, too, with a few more surprises! Now we're off to go borrow a van for this weekend - so cross your fingers Junk Lady will fit inside. o.0 Even broken down into three pieces, this Lady has a LOT of junk in her trunk. Ha!
UPDATE: NEW clearer photos taken with the Canon camera I forgot the first time I went with NEW information (like how it closes, and how the lace is done, as well as where some of the bodice seams d…
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Seems pretty awkward, not gonna lie.
I generally hate sharing process photos before a cosplay is finished, since I'm semi-convinced it jinxes my ability to ever finish the thing, BUT... I think the time has come. So let me walk you through the life-consuming project John and I began about three weeks ago, on the very day we learned there was going to be a Labyrinth Ball during Dragon Con this year. (A moment of sadness, however: the Ball tickets went on sale a few hours ago, sold out in less than 2 minutes, and we didn't get one. S'ok, though; this has been way too fun to let that get us down.) As with all our previous cosplays, John and I wanted to do a character that's never - or very rarely - been done before. We also wanted a challenge we could both work on, which meant both structural elements for John and more creative, free-form elements for me. Plus it had to be something really over the top. I think you'll agree this lovely lady fits all those criteria: So. Let's begin. First, a quick PVC frame: With mandatory "head" jokes GALORE. (Just look at that grin.) John continued work on the junk pile while I took over for the head. It's a big a Styrofoam ball, so I covered it with masking tape before re-attaching it to John's ingenious neck pivot: She won't be a puppet, but she WILL move. Hopefully enough to seriously startle some unsuspecting con-goers. ;) Then I sketched in features: It's Balloony from Phineas & Ferb! Adding crumpled tissue paper and more tape to rough out the more prominent features: The eyes are a ping-pong ball, cut in half. A coat of paper maché for strength: Which we placed outside to dry and/or scare the neighbors: Now on to sculpting with paper clay, since weight is a concern: My only sculpting tools are from a $2 plastic cake decorating kit: a small spatula and a few pointy sticks. I think I'm ready to spring for something nicer now. I only covered the visible areas with clay: her face and a little of her neck. Next, paint! I base-coated her with a sickly pale flesh tone, then stippled on areas of pink and lime green. (All of my paints are the 89 cent acrylics from the craft store.) At this point she's looking pretty zombie-like, but we're not done yet! Next, aging: A watered-down wash of brown really brings those wrinkles to life. At this point I'd been literally nose-to-nose with this lady for maybe a week, and wasn't particularly phased by her nightmarish visage. Then I added the eyes. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIEEEE The eyes were done using the exact same method as my eyeball roses, minus the veining, so check out that tutorial if you're curious. I ordered an enormous curly blond wig from ebay, then spent an evening destroying it with a comb and flat iron: I used spray paint to add sections of browns and grays to further dirty it up. Frankly, I'm a little annoyed that it STILL doesn't look all that bad up top. As with everything cosplay-related, you have to go BIG and over-emphasize absolutely everything to really make an impression. You can tell Junk Lady loves her new 'do: "Are those... bangs?!" Testing her position on the new rolling frame: She and her junk pile are removable from the rolling base, giving John and I the option of either wearing her on our backs or shuffling along inside the PVC frame. A lot of this will depend on just how heavy the finished product ends up. I'd hoped we could use some latex zombie gloves for hands, but the Halloween ones we ordered were enormous and completely unusable. So, more sculpting for me: The hands have a base of coiled wire covered in newspaper, masking tape, and paper maché. The tubes are place-holders for her rope straps we'll be adding later. Veins and warts. Those veins were what finally made them look like hands to me, though of course I'm still not 100% pleased with them. (Discovering I friggin' LOVE sculpting, though. Who knew?) Another test fit: I'm completely ignoring all of John's work at the moment, I know, but you can see his progress on the junk pile here. I will say we are striving for complete screen-accuracy, and John is building nearly everything: every chair, every satchel, every giant drum and toy abacus, completely from scratch. And what we aren't making from scratch we're finding at thrift stores and aging up with paint and sand paper and whatnot. It's been an incredibly fun scavenger hunt, both in studying the film over and over to figure out what's IN the junk pile*, and then trying to find or make an exact copy here in the real world. That rug beater was an $8 find, and you'd think we'd just won the lotto with it. Ha! (We're also striving to keep the cost at "dirt cheap." So far, I think we're succeeding.) [*FUN FACT: there is a live rat in there - can you spot it? Ours, however, will be a stuffed toy.] I'll also say I've never seen John have this much fun with a project. EVER. Me: "John, that toy desk-organizer with a built-in abacus on the back of her pile is barely visible even with the TV brightness set to max. Do you REALLY need to build one from scratch? John: ".... " [already in the garage building one from scratch] Though we're striving for total screen accuracy, John and I will also be hiding some Easter Eggs from the movie into the junk pile - and I am SO EXCITED about this part. I've decided Junk Lady is 30 years older now, so of course she's picked up more things from around the Labyrinth, right? I won't spoil them for you yet, but suffice to say there will be plenty of mementos from other scenes for fans to play I Spy with when we're done. And finally, I recently discovered Brian Froud has a similar Junk Lady in his Goblins of the Labyrinth book named Agnes, but it's unclear if this is the same character. So hey, anyone out there friends with Mr. Froud? Because I would love - LOVE - to ask him to name our Lady. I mean, c'mon, Mr. Froud, how could you resist DAT FACE? :) K, that's all I have for now. Next time I'll show you guys some build photos for a few of the dozens of props we're finding/building for the junk pile. Also, believe it or not, we are planning to debut Junk Lady in less than one week at MegaCon. She may not have all her Easter Eggs installed by then, but she should be loaded up and ready to party regardless. Now, just cross your fingers she'll fit in our friends' van... and will fit out our front door. Ha! 'Til then, as the Dread Pirate Roberts would say, rest well, and dream of large, scary junk pile women.
Maurene: My Pomeranian, Duff, looks a lot like David Bowie from the movie Labyrinth so I decided to help him along. I added some sparkle to a black dog jacket, made...
UPDATE: NEW clearer photos taken with the Canon camera I forgot the first time I went with NEW information (like how it closes, and how the lace is done, as well as where some of the bodice seams d…
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