tetris.: coppercurled

coppercurled

tetris.

Oct 27, 2011 00:25

My classmate’s birthday came about in the middle of the school week and assessments. So, naturally, her birthday party was on the weekend, and it was to be a video game theme!

Now, I was worrying and worrying about this. Trying to find a costume to do that wasn’t completely skimpy and could be made in a short amount of time with little money…it wasn’t really working. Then my other classmate mentioned that our other classmate had suggested Tetris! Well, problem sorted! It would be cheap and easy!

Looking up the costumes and how to make them got me even more interested in it. It was so dorky and lame, I really wonder why my friends and I never did it in undergrad.

Anyway, the day came about to make the costumes, which we put off to the day-of due to our assessments. Tricia, Nina, Fenna and I met at Princes Street and set about to buy the necessary supplies off the top of our heads…I know, so prepared. Good job, Master’s students!

Anyhow, we found some wrapping paper in pound stretcher, but the rest of them were printed, so it seemed we would only have one color, and masking tape to tape the boxes, as well as black tape to outline the shapes. On the line, we spotted colored garbage bags though and immediately swapped those and bought them instead! Green and blue tetris pieces it would be! Whatever works…you know.

Next, we had to get boxes, so we went into a few stores and wound up with a bunch of boxes. Mind you, boxes are quite awkward and heavy to carry after a while!

Walking with some boxes.

Fenna with more boxes.

We eventually made it back to Nina’s and began the work of constructing our pieces. We first decided what pieces we were going to be and then cut out the inside of the boxes to fit around ourselves and began taping them together. However, we did not buy more than one roll of duct tape, and so, ran out, and found ourselves scotch taping and stringing boxes together.

A lot of boxes finally off our hands!

Tricia getting there!

Nina with one of her boxes.

Fenna hard at work.

After that, we set about taping the colored garbage bags over the successfully constructed shapes and outlining them in black to emphasize the shape of the tetris pieces. In the end, they were great fun, and the cheapest costumes ever! Only £3 total. Everyone at the party loved our effort and our costumes, and we eventually became dancing tetris pieces to game music! I would recommend it to anyone who wants to do a group costume and would definitely try again, as mine was not the best of designs, and all of ours were falling apart at the end. Hey, I’m no engineer!