Triple Yellow Afternoon

[beetiger]

FD&C Yellow #5 food dye, on my lab bench. It isn’t very good for you, has ugly labeling requirements, and stains your fingers, but it’s bright and cheap and stable. Annatto, saffron, or turmeric just won't do.

Corn, in my lunch. The biggest ear of corn I’ve ever seen, covered in butter which is also yellow.

Nylon/lycra fabric, for the unitard I’m thinking of getting made to make an impressionistic bee costume with my black wasp-waist corset. Electric yellow, like a highlighter pen.

An article about smoking banana peels.

Comments

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Impressionistic how, exactly? You could do some awfully interesting things with impressionist striping. I've actually been trying to put together a bee-girl alt on Tapestries (beetiger-induced cryptomnesia, maybe?), and found some interesting variations on the theme on Google Images, including one with a yellow skin/black corset theme and a really neat honeycomb pattern on her skin. If I can find them again, I'll point them out to you.

Bee costuming

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure what I want to do with the costume yet. Regions of yellow and black more than striping, I think. I figured I'd get the yellow unitard and maybe a hood, put it under the corset, add the Halloween-store wings that a friend bought for me, stare at it in the mirror, and decide where to go from there. Possible something made with ping-pong balls for the eyes.

Remind me to show you a desc of Bumblebee as a sort of a spliced-human bee I've got lying around from an old FM transformation scene, sometime.

When I first saw your post, I misread what you had written as "impressionistic stripping". Which is an interesting idea in and of itelf...

Re: Bee costuming

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

...and decide where to go from there.

I think we went to the same costuming school! What you really need is a pair of those Saturday Night Live "killer bee" deelyboppers, but then, I might be biased. :)

I misread what you had written as "impressionistic stripping".

I don't know, stripping is a pretty representational artform. :) Stripping behind an infrared camera, maybe?

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

You're talking about the ear of corn, right?

Wait, no, I don't want to know. ;)

Science!

[supersocks.livejournal.com]

(And hurrah for bug morphs. Now I must draw you. :) )
May I ask what sort of job you do?

Re: Science!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Now I must draw you
I certainly wouldn't refuse, if you feel so inspired. I love the piece you did for me at AC.

I work as a food scientist, which is a little bit more like doing real science than, say, being a library scientist, but not that much. I do get to use beakers and stuff. And I do indeed have < booming voice > a masters degree...in Science! < /booming voice >
I do product development, which means I develop the formulations for commercial foods, low alcohol beverages (aka coolers) in particular. Until the end of September, of course, when I'm being laid off. Then I have no idea what I will be doing. :(

Re: Science!

[lediva.livejournal.com]

"Until the end of September, of course, when I'm being laid off. Then I have no idea what I will be doing. :("

Moving to Boston! *ahem* ;)

Re: Science!

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

You know, now that she mentions it... ;)

lediva, just for the record, I'm probably about three blocks away from you. I'm on Church Street, working four floors up from the Fire and Ice...

Re: Science!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

You know that moving to Boston is on my long-term not-so-secret agenda! It's going to be a while yet, though...