Costume planning

I bought these two items online early this week, they should be here tomorrow or Monday. I actually had to get the men's shirt, because they don't have a mock neck HeatGear in women's. If I don't like the fit, I'll go with a V-neck women's. I also got the men's leggings because they don't carry white in women's.


I just drew this to figure out where the wire will be attached to the outer shell and what shapes to make the shell. Nice butt, huh?

Paint day #1

I spent about two hours cleaning and taping the bike yesterday, and two hours painting it today. It needs glow in the dark paint tomorrow, and I still need to paint most of the wheels.


I started to get intimidated by the number of screws I had to take off in order to get the fenders and wheels off, so I took pictures of them beforehand. I couldn't move the handlebars or seat myself, I guess I'm a weakling. So I'm just going to tape them off with plastic bags before I spray paint.

Tron Costume

So that was the bike plan. For the costume, I'm going to go for a white costume with more of a futuristic/minimalist look like the new movie, which has both black and white costumes. Here's the main chick from the new movie, Quorra, played by Olivia Wilde:





Here's the original movie's main chick, Yori, played by Cindy Morgan:


Not sure if this is really from the movie, but it's close:


And here's some general desert costume inspiration:


So my plan for the costume is to wear white Under Armour shirt and leggings, with white cowboy boots and motorcycle helmet, then make a outerpiece made from white nylon which is like imitation leather, to sew the EL wire to. And put EL wire in the helmet. I need to design that leather outerpiece soon and start experimenting with layout of EL wire. Oh, and I'm also going to store the battery packs for the costume's EL wire in a white belt kinda like Luke Skywalker had.

A Summer Project

So, I'm going to Burning Man this year. It will be my 3rd time. I went in 2006 for my 21st birthday, and the following year. So I've been away from "Home" for 2 years, and this time I'll have just turned 25. Crazy! That blows my mind. We're still not camping with a large camp, just our little posse of Ali, me, Jose, plus his bro Dom and my friend Steph. Pretty small camp. However, we are bringing Ali's geodesic dome, which will be rad. Also, this year I decided to go the extra mile in terms of bike decorating and costume, and also try to be more sustainable. No more throwaway glowsticks!

My plan is to modify a cruiser bike with EL (electroluminescent) wire to look like a Tron bike. I also plan on creating a Tron costume with EL wire. So today I bought the as-is bike and some basic bike tools. I already ordered the wire online and also went to Fred Meyer and Next Adventure to pick up some other random things I thought I might need.

That's a giant pack of AA's, black duct tape, Eco glue, EL wire pre-cut with instructions and battery packs, tiny tie things, clear/white futuristic lights, white enamel paint, gloves, and not pictured: glow in the dark spray paint. Also, an Aerobie disc.

This is what I'm trying to imitate: