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?