Thursday, October 29, 2009

Ghouls Gone Wild.

Halloween is right around the corner! But I've practically been celebrating all month long. It is my favorite holiday.

So for some reason in OKC everyone decided to have the Halloween events the weekend before Halloween, which kind of defies logic to me. But I was also secretly happy about it because I feel like I get to celebrate Halloween longer. :)

The only problem was the costume. I hadn't made mine yet! So at the last minute I decided I was going to participate in our Halloween Parade that was started by The Flaming Lips 3 years ago. This was the third year that, as a finale of the Halloween parade, they round up 1000+ people to dress up as skeletons and march the parade with flaming torches (with real fire), called "March of a Thousand Flaming Skeletons". While Wayne Coyne follows behind in a giant hamster-ball-like spacebubble. It's quite a spectacle if you have never seen it. And me and my friend Christa decided to be a part of it this year.

I managed to bring my camera and snap a few pictures. It was extremely dark at the parade so it was kind of hard not to get blurry shots, but some of the longer shutter speed pics came out pretty fun.

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Needless to say, even friends we have known for years didn't recognize us.

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Doing the make-up was a challenge and well, pretty fun.


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The line when we got there was so long. Inside Wayne was commanding the masses of skeletons.

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Standing in line for our torches, I snapped a couple of pics of the insane lights and inflatable costumes that were to be surrounding Wayne and his Spacebubble.

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The floats ranged from the creepy, to the whimsical.

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So did the costumes. (yes, that is me on the left.)

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My torch.

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Christa looking sinister. Along with the rest of the skeletons behind us.

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Then of course I had to start playing with my camera. Long shutter speeds are too much fun when there are torches around.

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Halos. And lines.

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We were starting to march. This was our first curve around a corner. I loved the movement in this shot.

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You can very vaguely see the crowd to the side. The walk was nearly 2 miles and the sidewalks were packed the whole way down.

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Before I knew it, the march was over, so I turned around and snapped that picture of the skeletons walking towards me, going back as far as the horizon.


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The photographers all gathered around to try to get shots of Wayne.

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Then Wayne emerged from his Spacebubble, and was sped away in a golf cart.

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So we walked back to McNellies to have a drink and plan the rest of our evening.

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Happy Halloween guys. Hope you have a good one. :)

-Angela

3 comments:

Secondhand Stella said...

Fun!!!! That must have been really cool parade to be a part of.

And Kathleen said...

Your make up is fantastic - and I love the little gingham top you're wearing under your skeleton costume!

Secondhand Stella said...

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