I have decided to make the Black Swan costume from the movie Black Swan. This is going to be my reference, construction, materials, and costs page.
I made two tiaras for a Black Swan Cosplay Costume for DragonCon 2011. Below you will find out how I did it. The Black Swan photo to the left was taken by Sean Alderman – SciFiAnimeHeroes.com at DragonCon 2011. In that image, the tiara was place a little to far back on my head. [...]
This post is the design process I used to make the Black Swan tutu. There will be another post on making the Black Swan Bodice.
I decided to go extra professional and get a tutu.com black rehearsal tutu. Unfortunately, my tutu is too big. However, it wasn’t big enough for me to send back. Nor did [...]
These are some of my favorite photographs taken of Lori Bair and I at DragonCon 2011 as “double” Black Swan. We met online while conceptualizing our Black Swan cosplay costumes. You can read all about the making of the Black Swan Costume on my Black Swan Cosplay post. I will also be writing about my [...]
Ummm, okay not really. However, the more I practice Argentine tango, the more I realize that the less force one uses the better of one’s dancing becomes. This is probably true with a lot of dance forms, but it is an entirely different way of dancing for me. Most of my ballet training I spent [...]
Tonight I spent the majority of the time trying to talk about technique. After ditching my attempt to write on the subject, I started reading other tango related blogs and interviews. I ran across this interview with Pablo Inza and Nazarena Colombo. This one single quote hit me on a very deep level.
Nazarena: Year [...]
I watched the Transcended Man twice now. I have both a love and hate relationship with the information. I admire Ray Kurzweil, the person illustrated in this documentary, for his imagination and visionary abilities–his ability to think without limitation. I do believe we are in the midst of great advances with the help of technological [...]
I’ve been working on Argentine Tango for a little over a month now. It is challenging, but in an entirely different way than other forms of dance I’ve studied. I will talk about the challenging aspects of the dance in another post. This post is more geared to learning in general.
One thing that seems to [...]
When I was a child taking ballet and “being a dancer,” my teachers and parents coddled my difficulties with math always claiming that my brain wasn’t wired for it. Though it was easy to accept this excuse then, as I grew older this really bothered me. I always knew I didn’t understand some concepts because [...]
