At the Rubie's Costume Company's showroom at 200 Fifth Avenue, room after room of costumes, face masks and life-size figures of cartoon and movie characters stand darkened until the arrival of visitors.
Forgoing traditional documentary tropes, it's an A/V diary of the night, a collage of heavy bass, costumes, face painting, cooking, drinking, drumming, dancing, partying, and dry humping.
The Theyyam dance festival has acquired a cult status in the region with traditions dating back a thousand years, and is a colourful melange of ethnic costumes, face paintings, antique weapons, gaudy masks, folk music, ancient rituals and theatrical art, best experienced in traditional village homes.
One can envision Hollywood eventually turning out only two products: "Star Wars" movies and James Bond movies, each periodically "rebooted" for a new generation of customers by casting the latest new young stars in new costumes facing the same old perils and uttering the same old quips, with every other vestige of creative originality relegated to the void and forgotten.
MORRIS MUSEUM "Halloween Extravaganza," including pumpkin painting, spooky scavenger hunts, costume contests, face painting and other games.
Among the items for sale are Kate-and-William teacups, spoons, dishcloths, beer, costume party face masks, life-size cardboard cutouts, candle extinguishers, stamps, comic books, coins, vases, photo frames, toilet paper, golf caps and teddy bears (just $398, complete with gown and tiara).
After half a century of knowing what he wants and getting his own way, even if it means shooting himself in both feet, Ken Russell has today chosen to lunch in this unappetising shack across from the railway station car park against which sad edifice the gay colourways of his Tweedledee costume, tomato face and white hair shout hallelujahs to a drab world.
According to Kerry Powell, a local resident and founder of the annual Lone Pine Film Festival, fans who come here usually make a bit more noise, playing action-packed games of cowboys and Indians – sometimes in full costume and face paint.
Last year in Bejing, officials announced that people riding in costume could face arrest as the holiday coincided with a major summit in the city, BBC reports.
The next morning I watched as Dani, adorned in an elaborate gold and red costume, his face coated in a layer of makeup, met his kuda renggong for the first time.
