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11/1/10



For Halloween I was a lamprey. Mostly foam, cut-up t-shirts and underwear, hotglue, and acrylic.

A Pacific Lamprey.

I was introduced to lampreys as a little kid by this picture in Larry Gonick's excellent Cartoon History of The Universe Vol. 1. I was fascinated, in that horrible way kids can get fascinated. So the costume was kind of cathartic.

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  1. Wow, that's horrifyingly awesome! Nice work!

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  2. I, too, have been terrified and fascinated by these creepy creatures since I was little. These creepsters have been so ingrained in my psyche, I knew the moment I clicked on your blog what your costume was. It's so perfect! I didn't even need a caption. Excellent work!

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  3. So cool. Reminds me of something artist Nick Cave made...
    http://mydisguises.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/soundsuit1.jpg

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  4. That Nick Cave costume is beautiful! He is amazing. For my Lamprey I was thinking a little of this Bruegel picture of beekeepers ... http://kaufmann-mercantile.com/images/beekeeping-pieter-bruegel.jpg . I wonder if Cave might have been too?

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  5. its parasitic lampreys and hagfish, not the other way around

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