ok put on a death metal album such as OBITUARY or CANNIBAL CORPSE and get ready for the KAWASAKI 2007 HALOWEEN PARADE!!
there were the usual "Western" costumes like witches, jack o' lanterns and the like. but ... there were a lot of suprises also.
One of the most fun things about it was, not just the costumes, but the JUXTAPOSITION of costumes.
As you scan the following photos, keep a lookout for the people NEXT to the people, because they often form rediculous combinations. Then imagine if those monsters actually met at a coctail party or something.
first, just to give you an idea of the size of it:
TRUCKS - there were 3 trucks carrying JDs and PAs, which did somehow not play death metal.
The first truck had a happy-clown face on the front when stationary, but when it started moving, the happy-clown face broke apart to reveal this:
The second truck's theme seemed to be alien cannibal flora:
on the trucks, of course, were the cyclops DJs:
and the Furry DJs
And of course the Zombie Maid DJs.
The parents designed costumes with their strollers in mind:
Groucho Blackbeard + bruce lee + artificially inseminated Lee Semen Baby = lesbian couple of the year.
below, as selection of the anime-themed costumes:
The dude above said it took him a year to make his Mazinger duds. Keep in mind it was over 80 degrees in the shade today!
The cameraman below had the most incredible nerd-rig: a belt with a pole attached to it to support this giant cyber camera thing. He looked down his nose at me for my tiny-ass nikon.
I was like, overcompensate much?
Individual costumes were no less ambitious. Below, vegtables!
Below, Neptune (or whomever) had dozens of seashells glued to their head:
zombie with voodoo master. note the white eyeballs! it is unclear wether the Evil Afro Clown behind them is also a zombie.
What most suprised me was the amount of people with facial prosthetics:
on to part 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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