Found Footage: iPhone costumes
These guys didn't actually send these costumes in for our Halloween costume gallery, but if they had, we would definitely have put them in it. They actually have LCD TVs strapped to them (using PVC pipe and ratchet straps), and apparently those TVs are hooked up to real video iPods-- they edited the display video themselves. The suits also weigh about 60 pounds, which is about how much candy you'll probably be able to get if you really do go around the neighborhood in one of these.
And it's a pretty good representation of the iPhone, too, even if it is a little... bulkier than the real thing. These guys are award-winning, too-- one of their Myspace pages brags that they've won the "Guavaween costume contest," whatever that is. Congrats!
[via Neatorama]
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10-30-2007 @ 7:57PM
Eric Taylor said...
Guavaween is a longstanding Halloween celebration in the Tampa, Florida area with a night parade through Ybor City (an old originally Cuban immigrant neighborhood but more of a nightclub spot now). Kinda with a Mardi Gras flavor.
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10-30-2007 @ 7:59PM
punkassjim said...
When I saw this on FSJ's blog yesterday, I thought to myself "they must be Apple employees." They didn't edit the video themselves, it's the same video that plays on the huge iPhone displays in storefront windows. In the stores, they've got Mac Pro towers running the video out to the screens. I somehow doubt they're doing it from an iPod, since it's got to be displayed on a rotated screen.
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10-30-2007 @ 8:34PM
SpinThis! said...
Well it's pretty obvious you'd rotate the video before you got it on the iPod... the long and narrow iPhone makes better use of a rotated 16x9 screen anyway..
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10-30-2007 @ 8:48PM
Gene Cowan said...
Yikes. Do they have multiple car batteries under there to power that big screen?
I'll bet they need some back surgery soon.
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10-30-2007 @ 10:21PM
Stephen said...
The lyrics to the song: Push Me, and then just touch me.
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10-31-2007 @ 9:00AM
something said...
Why are they waving their arms?? Are they robots or iPhones? Robot iPhones? That would be just about the only thing that makes sense.
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10-31-2007 @ 10:05AM
Joe said...
#6 - I came over here to wonder the same thing. I didn't have the audio on, but it looks like they suddenly realized they didn't have any choreography, and the standard fallback plan for that is to wave your arms around a lot.
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10-31-2007 @ 10:09AM
b said...
That sure will be a waste of money when the big kids throw them down to take their candy!
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11-09-2007 @ 12:36PM
Samuel said...
what's the name of the music anybdy?
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