Showing posts with label Matt's party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt's party. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Last post for Matt's party

Hey this is the final post for Matt's party.
I didn't ask for any presents, so Burt and Laurie got me Zombie Fluxx on extended loan. They're awesome!
Here's Ramon, Nicole, and I playing Zombie Fluxx.
Hippies are the best defense against Zombies. Seriously.
Notice the nametag.
OK, so, this picture looks weird because it's up against a stained window. But this is me with Mel and Greg's kid. I wanted to name him Peter Parker, but that idea got nixed. And here's Patricia cleaning up.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Matt's Party - the Awards Ceremony

Guess what else I found at SCRAP? Trophies! Medals! ... that had already had the names of other people inscribed on them...
Aren't they cute?
Nicole.
OK, one of the trophies wasn't exactly attached to the base and it needed a nut to keep it together. Furthermore, it was a baseball trophy with a bat missing. So, I told Ramon it was a Jedi trophy with the lightsaber not yet activated. (Ramon and I like Star Wars.)
As I went around, I made up superlatives, and I forgot them. This is CJ.
JoJo.
Jan. Someone had kept the figure part of the trophy and put it on a spool of thread and written "Who Who Who". It must have been an inside joke.
Michael.
Hafidha.
Here I ran out of trophies and started handing out medals. Some were from Hood to Coast. I bought them for a dime each. Julia and Elizabeth.
Bahar. If you look closely, you can see Burt scowling as he realizes that the contest for Best Knitting was rigged.
Sabrina. Some of the medals say 5th place and some say 1st. Patricia said she'd be mad if she did Hood to Coast and just got a stinking medal.

Patricia got the award for Most Focus on the Other Person in a photo of herself.
I gave myself the award for Most Genres and Most Work of Other People Utilized.

Matt's Party - Origami

All right, now see the skills in action.
Elizabeth made a box out of my origami book. It takes 6 pieces of paper. In the past, I've had people decorate one piece each and then we put them together.
Here is my masterpiece for the night. Combining genres of assemblage, origami, and buying the work of someone else, I have created the modern moster movie. I'm a genius.
Giant mutant titans clash.
JoJo did the frog from directions in an origami book he brought. It was his idea to make a tongue out of yarn, too.
This is all me. I did this out of JoJo's book. It's supposed to be a dragonfly, so I made it into a dragon. The background was already done when I bought it from SCRAP and the yellow part of the fire was cut out from an obscure DC comic, also from SCRAP.
I didn't have the patience to look for small people screaming in terror away from the monsters, so I settled for relaxing tourists. Then I wrote, "Just ignore them" in a word balloon.
Because if giant monsters interrupted your vacation, would you give them attention? No, of course not, that would just encourage them.
JoJo made this and put it on my giant cookie. Y'know, it might have been JoJo's idea to go cross-genre, originially ...
JoJo coached CJ to do this, I think.
Same here.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Matt's Party - Assemblage

All right, this is the party post with by far the most photos, so here we go.
So, we laid out a bunch of magazines and um, pink ponytails and let people assemble them into collages. Here's Hafidha. Here's Bahar, Elizabeth, and Julia. Bahar brought her knitting, but she said that she wasn't knitting me a sweater.
Burt has some of the more... interesting facial poses.
That is not his real smile, but that is really his collage.
Here's Patricia, showing off her collage of various facial parts, which have been grouped together.
This is a public service warning about the dangers of plastic surgery.
Here's Sabrina showing off her collage.
Sorry there's not a better photo of her picture.
This belongs to Elizabeth. Suburban life.
Jan shows off her soft-colored collage.
Bahar put away the knitting and found her muse.
I like geometric themes, so I like the diamond.
Hafidha asked for my advice and I told her to put the "glow" on the bottom because of color scheming.
If you look at the last picture, you will notice a little bump on Hafidha's stomach. Well, there's a 52% chance that that bump is going to be named Inara, after a character on "Firefly" and "Serenity". Notice how this picture has that kind of Inara feel to it.
This is Michael's collage. Notice how the diamonds form a person.
Michael's collage was too darn glossy to use with a flash and too dark to use without a flash. Oh, well, it looks cool.
Julia rolled up paper and said she put beads in the limbs. It's 3-D, just like Bahar's. Julia took it with her, so I couldn't get a close-up.
More pix to come.