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
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