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DIY Hallowe'en: Skeleton

Xeni Jardin at 12:02 pm Sun, Oct 31, 2010

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From the Boing Boing DIY costume thread, gammablog points us to this gorgeous skeleton costume and explains,

The arms are operated by a lever at the shoulder joint. The elbows and hands are made springy with piano wire. The lower body is a skeleton grabbed from Google images, applied to 1/4 inch plywood and jointed with bicycle inner tube rubber. The jaw is operated similarly to the arms. All for the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade tonight.

Skeleton Costume and Video Link. (gammablog.com)

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • we_suffer

    What is up with the feet at 0:40? Those are far more terrifying than the skeleton itself.

    • GammaBlog

      They are essentially a pair of black socks with ten popsicle sticks sewn to them to extend the toes. Those were then shaped with paper and white glue and the socks were layered with white duct tape and painted. In the video I didn’t attach them properly to the the bony ankle, but didn’t have the energy to do a re-take.

      • we_suffer

        Hahaha ok. I thought they were the feet of the person controlling the skeleton.

  • Anonymous

    pretty sweet.

  • Anonymous

    Just came across this. It’s wonderful.