Halloween Costume Unicorn

In honor of the day naturally the need to post a costume. Thank you for continuing to share through Facebook. This is the result of improper representation of unicorns through pop culture. I enjoy the humor of the wig but unfortunately we have a bastardization of the beloved unicorn at the expense of unnecessary humor. Through future projects I hope to use images like the above and describe them as atrocities. I will dress in a full three piece suit and explain how we need to advocate for the appropriate representation of the unicorn. These performances will travel to the places that religious and anti abortion groups are protesting to reexamine the act of "preaching" which I use to mean forcefully pushing your beliefs blindly on others. 

Lady Gaga Music Video Unicorn

Here is a continued use of the unicorn as a homosexual symbol in Lady Gaga's Born This Way music video. She intertwines rainbows, lyrics about LGBTQAP community members, and the Holocaust based pink triangle with unicorns. There is a clear discussion about unicorns and their connection to the homosexual community. But it is hard to tell weather this is a comment about misconception of the gay community because she is incorrectly depicting unicorns. 

Another Music Video Unicorn

So I thought I'd go through a few new pop culture unicorn music videos then transition into some movie clips. I think that this is an absurdist video, please note that I'm not calling it absurd look up absurdism, I truly enjoy absurdism I'm just not sure what the relevance is in Kesha's Blow music video. Anyway friends here's

Unicorn Costume

After yesterday's post I thought I would share the progress on my costume. Still some technical hurdles but I'm excited to have a wearable unicorn again. While I indent to make many changes to the texture of the unicorn I'm going to bring this to a wearable stage before putting on the final layers. Updates as the come but for now here you are.

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Hello hello!
I finished my unicorn costume yesterday (well constructed it to a place of satisfaction for this stage) and decided I would wait until a unicorn came along. Enter the pop culture informed boyfriend. He sends me this link of a Nicki Minaj music video.. It's interesting that this is all happening around Halloween and further that this video is posted in the context of my work and my current projects. Today I'm weaving cloth that will soon become a mermaid tail. So it is very fitting that this fairytale music video be the first unicorn for my third attempt for daily unicorn posting.
I used to struggle with pop culture appearances of ideas I've had, I think that's something all "inventors" find to be a motivation eraser. But as I've been creating and finding my visual themes I'm realizing that this may have many of the same visuals it says nothing to my concepts. I'm finding that going through processes just to experiencing them turns out to be extremely education and opens my mind to new ideas. Also now that the depth of my research is expanding I'm able to compare ideas to discover what works and what doesn't. For example I find the "War Horse" costumes to be far more inspiring than Nicki's unicorn costume.

Also I'm beginning to become very frustrated with the misrepresentation and lack of creativity in the "horned horse." Two fundamental unicorn physical characteristics are constantly misrepresented. Unicorns have cloven hooves and the horns are at least two feet long when fully grown.
So today I will present Nicki's Unicorn costume as my unicorn for October 27th 2012