Month: January 2011 | Avant Garb

At some point while making a mascot, I fall in love.

Slightly deflated Blood Drop

With this mascot it was when the sunglasses were finished & we could put them on the slightly deflated Blood Drop.

There is a marvelous time in the creation of these characters, when the personality is emerging, but the mascot isn’t completed – the image doesn’t yet have the integrity stand on its own.

The picture on the left is that moment – the moment when the hipster personality of the mascot is showing itself.

A little later in the day, after we had secured the interior hoops that give the Drop its round, round shape, I donned the mascot – Laura took photos, and behold! A new character in Mascotdom!

Greenberg & Hammer is where everybody, who does anything with costumes, goes to get notions.

Notions, in the sewing world are things like; thread, needles, bias tape, elastic, buttons, boning, bust pads, cording, piping, elastic, grommets, hooks & eyes, buckles, pins, pin cushions, rhinestones, ribbon, snaps, velcro and zippers.

When I lived was a young performance & costume artist in NYC, I would wander down to Greenberg & Hammer, from my apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, to pick up threads, needles, elastic, buttons & zippers.

As a mascot maven for the past bazillion years I’ve been ordering grosses of super duper whopper poppers (really, really, really big snaps) in silver or black fro 20 years – also curved needles and milliner needles and head forms.

I just went to Greenberg & Hammers website because I need to order a head form for a mascot head. Theire webpage is now just a WordPress blog. the greenberg & Hammer, that used to be a few doors away from 57th & 5th in NYC is gone.

I’m in mourning.

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