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Even though Halloween isn't till the end of October, it's almost time for advertising costume contests and trick-or-treating. So I thought I'd get a (tiny) jump on my clients and design some costumed kiddies.
I'm not sure how I feel about these two, but I suppose they'll do. Their costumes are (loosely) based on real halloween costumes, but the kids are sketches out of my imagination.
Ishamuddin Khan (42) , with his son Aman (6) practicing the rope trick at his home in Kathputli Colony, Delhi, 11th November 2009.
He is the first person to perform a version of the Indian Rope Trick in the open, with an audience on all sides and no stage or sets in which to hide apparatus to lift the rope. Ishamuddin makes no claim to magical powers and says the trick as he performs it is a combination of street magic and illusion. Ishamuddin is an Indian 'madari' (street performer), and a member of the "Maset" - magicians caste. According to Ishamuddin Indian magicians have been performing 15-20 tricks for around 3000 years but no new ones are being thought up as there is no living to be made in the trade. More than his financially precarious livelihood Ishamuddin laments the Indian middle and upper classes' indifference or outright hostility to madaris in the country. Rather than celebrating the cultural heritage of their performing artists they seem embarrassed to promote this 'backward' impression of the country as still being a land of snake charmers, dope smoking sadus cow-worshippers and performers of the Indian Rope Trick. The new thrusting economic powerhouse and nuclear power-player determined to take its place on the world stage has no time for such frivolities.
Ishamuddin effectively invented the trick insofar as he is the first person to figure out a method of doing it credibly in the open air. He says he heard about the trick as a boy but is convinced that it is a relatively recent tradition as neither his father or grandfather (both magicians) performed it or knew how it was done or witnessed it being done. He heard more about the trick in more detail only in the 1980's and then spent 6 years researching and working out how he might be able to perform the trick in the open air. His first public performance was a small one in 1995 at Delhi's Qutb Minar but the major debut came in 1997 on a beach in Udupi in Karnatika in front of a reported 35,000 people.
He has since performed the trick only a further 6 or 7 times in India but many times in Europe.
The idea of the trick itself was brought to being largely due to a hoax report in the Chicago Tribune in 1890. In a book on the topic, Peter Lamont exposed the trick as a hoax created by John Elbert Wilkie while working at Chicago Tribune. Under the name "Fred S. Ellmore" ("Fred Sell More") Wilkie wrote of the trick in 1890, gaining the Tribune wide publicity. About four months later, the Tribune printed a retraction and proclaimed the story a hoax. However, the retraction received little attention. and in the following years many claimed to remember having seen the trick as far back as the 1850s. None of these stories proved credible, but with every repetition the story became more ingrained.
Lamont also notes that no mention appears before the 1890 article. Marco Polo's supposed viewing was only offered after the article was published. Ibn Batuta did report a magic trick with a chain, not a rope, and the trick he describes is different from the "classic" Indian rope trick.
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"Mom, are you SURE about this?"
She ran to the door fearlessly, and when I failed to come with her, she turned around and only then started to question all the hoopla.
Ready to go out trick or treating with Nana and Papa.
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October 30, 2014. Our Kindergarten and Pre-K classes held their "trick or treat" around the school, dressed in costumes as their favorite saints, fairy tale or comic book characters.
Not only is it a carbon fiber track racing bike being used on the street, the owner swapped the front 700c wheel for a 650c, which allows him to spin the bars for tricks but also makes the handling much steeper and I imagine scarier.
Jacket, Forever 21 (thrifted). Sweater, INC (thrifted). Jeans, Levi's (thrifted). Boots, Latigo (consignment). Bag, John Galt.
We went to Ms. Carolyn's church (Alissa's teacher) for trick-or-treating because Grandma & Grandpa weren't inLapeer this year.
I sat and watched this guy practise his bike tricks at the local skate board park.
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on Day 2 of the Final between Windward Islands and Jamaica in the Regional 4-Day Tournament on Sunday, April 27, 2014 at Beausejour Ground.
Photo by WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography
I made a Halloween card using Stampendous' Kitty Candy Kiddo stamp and Lawn Fawn's Argyle Backdrops. More info at: mochafrapscrapper.blogspot.ca/2015/08/trick-or-treat.html
I saw this done once so I thought i'd recreate it. Not easy and not the best result but you get the idea.
trick or treating in our little town is a wonderful experience. Tons of adults dress up, there's good cheer and merriment (aided by the guy who gives out jello shots to the adults!), and it feels wonderfully small town and fun. People were crazy for my Medusa headdress this year and Clark's scuba costume was especially admired by some people who actually scuba dive.
Tony is not too happy with his Halloween costume ... but he's thrilled that his photo was chosen as the first ever icon for the group Dogs! Dogs! Dogs!
Go check it out!
"Told Under the Green Umbrella" Old Stories for New Children selected by the Literature Committee of the International Kindergarten Union. Pictures by Grace Gilkison. Copyright 1930 by The MacMillan Company.
Nope, not social media themed, more the bird type of tweeting! Taken at Pensthorpe Natural Park in Norfolk.
Savanah and Rebecca out trick or treating. I was so busy keeping them in line and making sure they said thank you and didn't run and didn't step through gardens that I really didn't take near as many shots as I thought I would. At least this way you can their costumes. Savanah is Belle and Rebecca is Eloise.