If anything could be more frustrating about 2010, i would have to pick the BP oil spill. But with every great tragedy there is a space to poke fun at those responsible.
This costume will make heads turn and you're sure to get strange looks from all your party
mates.
If you want to really help the gulf spill effort, please donate to some of the organizations helping clean up efforts
Thanks to the Yes Men, for inspiration.
Special thanks to culturespy and carleyy
This costume will make heads turn and you're sure to get strange looks from all your party
mates.
If you want to really help the gulf spill effort, please donate to some of the organizations helping clean up efforts
Thanks to the Yes Men, for inspiration.
Special thanks to culturespy and carleyy
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For this costume you will need the following:
1 White jumpsuit
1 White hard hat
1 pair of black gloves
1 pair of goggles
1 dust mask
1 fake bird
1 can of black paint
Inkjet sticker paper with BP logos
1 White jumpsuit
1 White hard hat
1 pair of black gloves
1 pair of goggles
1 dust mask
1 fake bird
1 can of black paint
Inkjet sticker paper with BP logos
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We used spray glue and cotton balls to simulate tar balls stuck to the helmet. You can paint over the cotton easily. Spread it around a little and tack it in place with the glue and you have less spherical attachments!
Disposable coverall with hood - €6, went without hard hat.
Latex gloves - 80c
Goggles - €2, would have been cheaper if I'd borrowed my brothers :P
Dust mask - 75c
Printed logo - Free at college
Made a oil mixture too from stuff in my kitchen :P
This is an awesome costume! I love it and I'm going to make one and wear it and love it and be happy and have a great time and take all the credit for it like it was my own original idea...just kidding :)
P.s. -- sorry for all the inappropriate, immature interjections into my comment... >:-)
BTW, Can someone please delete the useless political comments. This area is for commenting on a project and asking questions or giving advice.
Go to youtube to argue politics!!!!
- White Jumpsuit - $10
- Black Gloves - $3.50
- 1 Pint Gloss Black - $10
- Hard Hat - $6
- Goggles/resperator - $5
- Stickers - $3
I went over to the FedEx store and they printed off my logos for cheap and the label paper they printed on sticks without any extra glue.
We went to a Halloween party this past weekend and everyone loved the costumes, though it didn't seem that costumes were as original as the year prior.
I hope multitudes show up at the same parties in this one, it'll only make the point better.
A nice companion costume might be "volunteer wildlife washer" (finely re-pelleted styrofoam and glue with a fake animal in a cheap washbasin).
Nice work!
I'm really wanting to do this for my costume, and am almost done scoping it all out.
The impromptu diatribe by the European nationalists is interesting. Let's all focus on being more divisive and keep labeling each other while the puppet masters keep taking our money and having their way with the world. Yeah, that's productive.
As for the references to history, well how about this. B.P. was originally founded by the guy who found oil in Iran. The Iranians wanted more money for their natural resources once the staggering wealth that it represented was made evident by the evil entrepreneur that had developed it. Eventually they just took it all. What later became known as B.P. didn't like this so they went to the world court and got bounced.
Like a good Allie Eisenhower did what America has been doing since Monroe's time, kinda modeled after our European forebears, and decided to install a more cooperative government. So the CIA assassinates a sovereign nation's leader and gets a share of the Iranian/BP oil for the corporations that run America. When Europe did it we called it colonialism and empire building. Now we like to call it Imperialist hegemony. Catchy huh?
So the Iranians decided that they were tired of the whole western rule by Shah proxy and kicked every body out. Let us not leave out that B.P. was also controlled by the English government for a while until Maggie started her privatization moves to pay some bills (apparently the socialists ran out of other peoples money to spend). B.P. was/is also a big player in the American oil company consolidation moves that have been taking place since the trust busters created all of the little Standard Oils. We are after all talking about the third or fourth largest company in the world, and they didn't get that big sellin' fish and chips in Lecester Square.
B.P. is a giant corporation that has by extension millions of shareholders. These people (union pension plans, banks and governments) all want something of a ROI, and most don't really care how that is derived as long as it doesn't reveal itself in living color all over the nightly news. People still want there gas as cheap as possible, investors still want their profits and CEO's still want their bonus'.
All of the finger pointing and chop busting aside, the spill was horrific and the true impact won't be known for decades to come. A cursory review of the Prince William Sound spill and aftermath should help to clarify that point. Ranking the size (which BTW is still beyond any real quantification) is quite ridiculous...it was big and it was bad for everyone.
As far as clean-up efforts and the American government's reticence to foreign aid, well don't forget that we do have a huge yet fragile ego, and more importantly, we have labor unions that will not be ignored. Even in this economy, catastrophe cleanup work is still work, and our unions want the representation that they have bought and paid for, so you can hardly fault Mr. Obama for not acting like Chile's President, he's got a shrinking support base that he has to pander to.
Whether momma earth can continue to absorb and compensate for our mistakes and greed remains to be seen, but common sense seems to illustrate that we don't want to make any more of a habit of this sort of thing. Taking a poke with a topical costume such as this should help to remind everyone in our ADD / 15 second video clip world that it happened, and that we all have a little petroleum goo on our hands where blame is concerned.
When we start hearing people admit how badly Obama failed on this and how beholden he is to the oil industry, THEN we can keep bringing this up.
Personally, I don't have a problem with those examples, but I know people who obsess over it do.
Frankly, I'd like to see real solutions and alternatives that work, and less useless noise about it.
For starters, somebody who gives us a battery that can be produced without adding to China's out-of-control cancer problem, or an affordable(!) solar panel that doesn't fail after five years, or even better, cold fusion, would have every right to lecture us.
But the answers never come, just more "no" and lecturing and more killing of technologies that would help short term, but not necessarily solve the problem. Onshore drilling (cue the catterwalling) , clean coal (cue the banning) or safer reactors (another no), for example.
The third party was a set up that was created by the ruling administration and the appointed head of said same was placed by the one and only messiah that apparently can do no wrong. No doubt there will be countless scandals of misspent and misappropriated funds, as there already have been accusations of, but it's not really too much different from the reaming that we've taken over Absurdistan or any of the countless other abuses that we suffer at the whim of the money masters. We're merely the host to which the ticks attach themselves.
Get over the labels, bury the true believer stance and look at it for what it is. We all pay and they all play. That's part of why the whole poking of fun at B.P. seemed so great in the first place.
Now if someone could just come with a comparably witty costume for the crooked know-it-alls at the Federal Reserve...
I read the "be nice" policy, but seriously, errrrrr!
Were you around during the months it took him to do...anything?
Do you know BP was one of his biggest contributors?
Did you know he prevented the states from releasing and using booms that could have prevented total disaster?
Anyone who doesn't like your guy is automatically GOP, huh?
Not very mature.
Why don't you read some of the non-GOP news sources who have written on all these themes? Or maybe comments from the panel Obama himself set up?
"A panel assembled by the White House to assess the government’s oil spill response issued a report declaring the Obama administration created the impression that it was “either not fully competent” or “not fully candid with the American people about the scope of the problem.” While the spill itself drew daily coverage for months, this story was quickly reported and vanished within 24 hours. NBC offered a full story in the evening, ABC and CBS in the morning. None of these stories allowed any comment from Republicans, and there were no interview segments."
Im not sure what "months" you speak of, but let me break it down a bit, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig disaster occurred on April 20, 2010. Response from the White House took 9 days. But lets use your scale, it took 0.29 Months for him to publicly respond. Keep in mind that this was BP's disaster, and it was BP who needed to respond. It was up to the White House to push them to do it.
Ok, so on to your second statement; BP was one of the biggest contributors to what? Joe Barton?
On the third one, well, I've never heard of that, and I was quite informed during the process, but where did you read that? dickcheneynews.com?
Ok, down to your 4th, Im going to apply the old " If you talk like, act like, and walk like" philosophy. It is common trait of conservatives to have a positive view of giant corporations (especially oil companies), and dislike liberal presidents. You just fit the stereotype. Was I wrong? I've gotten good at this in the last few months.
Im not sure of the source of the quoted content, so I wont comment on it.