Boskone Plans
Jan. 7th, 2005 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeThe New England Science Fiction Association is hosting Boskone (see more at http://www.boskone.org ), its annual convention next month, Presidents' Day Weekend, actually (February 18th to the 20th). I just have to get the registration in by next Saturday, and see if I can't get Mark to come along with me. I've been planning out my budget for it, during lulls at work (and on account of all the snow and ice, there have been many lulls at work...), plus, I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to attend in costume or not. It's billed as "focusing on literature, art, music, and gaming (with just a dash of whimsy)", so that has me slightly concerned about some of my ideas since most of them came from other media (ie. graphic novels and movies).
I'd started off thinking about making it easy and just recycling my Trinity costume. But then I was considering dressing as Death, from "The Sandman" series, or the Lady Door from Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" (Yes, I've been on a Gaiman bender the past -- what is it now? -- three months), though for the latter, that would mean wearing a bunch of distressed period costumes one on top of the other, with a leather jacket over it all.
And *then* I was thinking of cross-costuming as either Gigolo Joe from "A.I.", or as (yep) the Merovingian from "Matrix 2 & 3". In both cases, I'd trick out my trench coat into a frock coat jacket by pinching the back, from the inside, using strategically placed spring-type clothespins, since my trenchcoat is a straight-line duster-style coat (think Neo's trenchcoat in the original "Matrix"). For Joe, I'd have to find a zipper-front man's silk shirt, "defaulted" to silver, I guess: if you've watched the film as closely as I have, you'll notice it changes colors. Hey, if he can change his hair color, his shirt can probably change colors: someone is actually trying to devise a way to really do this, create fabric that can change color, but I digress... For the Merv, I'm playing it safe and sticking to the "Reloaded" look, since his jacket in "Revs" looks like it's floor length (and it's cut more like Neo's cassock-style coat. Strange...). The hardest part in both cases might be the hair, since I'm growing mine out, and even if I do have it gelled-back, it's gonna look odd, though I *do* have the Merv's widow's peak...
I got time to figger it out....
I'd started off thinking about making it easy and just recycling my Trinity costume. But then I was considering dressing as Death, from "The Sandman" series, or the Lady Door from Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" (Yes, I've been on a Gaiman bender the past -- what is it now? -- three months), though for the latter, that would mean wearing a bunch of distressed period costumes one on top of the other, with a leather jacket over it all.
And *then* I was thinking of cross-costuming as either Gigolo Joe from "A.I.", or as (yep) the Merovingian from "Matrix 2 & 3". In both cases, I'd trick out my trench coat into a frock coat jacket by pinching the back, from the inside, using strategically placed spring-type clothespins, since my trenchcoat is a straight-line duster-style coat (think Neo's trenchcoat in the original "Matrix"). For Joe, I'd have to find a zipper-front man's silk shirt, "defaulted" to silver, I guess: if you've watched the film as closely as I have, you'll notice it changes colors. Hey, if he can change his hair color, his shirt can probably change colors: someone is actually trying to devise a way to really do this, create fabric that can change color, but I digress... For the Merv, I'm playing it safe and sticking to the "Reloaded" look, since his jacket in "Revs" looks like it's floor length (and it's cut more like Neo's cassock-style coat. Strange...). The hardest part in both cases might be the hair, since I'm growing mine out, and even if I do have it gelled-back, it's gonna look odd, though I *do* have the Merv's widow's peak...
I got time to figger it out....