Once again, I attended the Midwest Haunters Convention in Columbus, OH. I hung out with Todd at the Fearscape Studios booth during the day on Saturday, June 4 and then attended the Masquerade Ball that night. I wore my recently updated costume called ‘The Experiment‘. I am very proud to have been selected as one of ten people for the Scariest Character Contest, and for the second time in my MHC history, I came in 2nd place! (The other time was with Jumbo the Clown at MHC 2009.) Seriously now, who do I have to throw in a deep pit in my basement to win 1st place in this costume contest?? I also want to congratulate The Tooth Fairy for winning the Ms. Scary Pageant. She works at a haunt in Cleveland, and her costume was sweet!

I attended my first MARCon (Multiple Alternative Realities Convention) in Columbus, OH on May 28, 2011. The theme for this year’s MARCon was “steampunk”, which happened to be the style and inspiration of my latest costume, called The Experiment. I think of it as Frankenstein’s monster with a steampunk twist. I entered the Masquerade contest and was awarded the “Truly F#%*ing Creepy Judges’ Choice Award”. I like that.

This is the first time I’ve revisited a past costume to make changes and improvements. When I made The Experiment back in October of 2009, I also turned my garage into a haunted house for Halloween. So when I got to the end of the design process on the costume, I had run out of time and energy, and the one piece blue jumpsuit was good enough to finish it off. Because I’ve never worn this costume to any of the Halloween conventions yet, I decided it would be a good one to focus my annual creative energies on, and try to bring it up to the same level of awesome as my other costumes. I think of this costume as a steampunk Frankenstein’s monster.

June 5-7, 2010 ~ I wore my Freakshow costume and my wife came along to take pictures. I’m impressed each year by the creativity and quality of everyone’s costumes… and their ability to party hard all night long.