No pictures costume for Hong Kong Halloween

Hello,

I am presently doing a Internship in Hong Kong and was lucky enough to be part of Halloween party here! This is completely not my  typical instructables but I just wanted to share what I am living in this part of the world. Just for fun.

To understand this concept and the point  of my costume, you have to understand how Halloween is in Hong Kong. Using words will not cut it, pictures will show you what it is and how many people there is in streets of Hong Kong.

Here is the flickr photo set
http://bit.ly/brtmqC

You really have to live it to understand how crazy it is.

Hong Kong is the 4th most dense population on earth.6480/km2 (16,576/sq mi)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density


That is 6,480 people per square kilometer.

The US has 32/km2 (83/sq mi) and Canada is 3.4/km2 (8.7/sq mi).

I can guarantee you that halloween night is probably the most dense place ever.

That is only one part of the story, the place where all the fun begins is Lan Kwai Fong, it is the bar area where Gwailo goes. Gwailo means foreign devil or Ghost man describing white people in China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo

That part of town is on the island of HK. It is subway station is call Central.
This is where you see all the bars and hookers.




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(don't forget to check my blog where I talk about living in Hong Kong and other projects I am working on: www.JeromeDemers.com/blog)

Step 1: The concept of the costume

October 30, 2010, I go to Lan Kwai Fong with a group of yoyo player from HK. Arriving there, there is a HUGE line up of people walking to get the bar area. It takes a while to get there. The moment we are at the very beginning of the bars, there is like a freaking bus load of photograph taking zillions of pictures, there are everywhere!! We start walking up and saw some people getting stop every single step they took to get pictures taking with there costumes. You could see on there face that his was like " AH NOT AGAIN!"

That was funny. All night people where just taking pictures and pictures of strangers in costume. The funny part is, most of the costume where just a mask on there face and still, people where freaking out and taking pictures. I saw some great costumes but in general, it was all ordinary stuff. 99% of all the people did not have costume, just there for the show and taking pictures.


At the end of our trip, we sat and started talking and looking around and a idea strict me for a Halloween costume. A very simple costume.  I will be a sandwich man with two BIG sign of " NO PICTURES"

I also decided to try something new and had a message on my sign saying " NO PICTURES if you do, please send them here: [e-mail]"  people can send me there pictures by email.

You can go directly on
Step 8 to see me and other people in costumes
Step 9 to see the photograph

Comments

[krysteanuh]

Great concept! This looks like a pretty clever idea (:
But I'm going to have to nitpick too. Cantonese is a dialect, Chinese is the language. x3

[robomaniac]

Hey thanks, is it because I wrote in step 11 "I want to write in Cantonese" ?

[krysteanuh]

Yeah. It's kind of like in English how we have different accents (Southern, Brooklyn, etc.) Only in Chinese, it's far less discernible. Chinese is the written language. Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese are the two major dialects of Chinese. :D

[day-veed]

Not just Cantonese! There's Hokkien and Teochew too!

[jabronie25]

Love the email idea!

[hiyahoney]

*dense*

Sorry--I'm "that guy" who picks out misspellings. I'm a jerk that way. :-)

[robomaniac]

Hey Thanks, I have NO problem with people correcting me! That is how you learn. Btw, I knew something was wrong when I read that word and I did wonder but did not search for it.

Thanks again, I appreciate it.

Jerome
ps- that proves that I am a human.... or simply that my master programmed some good AI into me. MUWAHAHAHAHA!

[Ninzerbean]

This is soooo funny!

[robomaniac]

Thanks! I had a lot of fun!