July 20, 2015 - 9:02pm by Jessica Safron
Hey! It's Jessica-time again. I finally have some pictures of my 80s workout costume in its thongy entirety (at the bottom of this post), and another tale of a random local event that I decided to crash.
On Friday afternoon, Adam was checking Facebook and noticed that one of our friends was attending something called The Totally Awesome 80s Movie Show…and Possibly Zardoz!, hosted by Glitter Milk Gallery. The event description read:
Righteous!!!
Bring your radical self to Glitter Milk Gallery to celebrate blockbuster season with a most excellent movie tribute exhibit!
We've got artists depicting bodacious movies such as Akira, Heathers, Spring Break, 9 to 5, Labyrinth, Aliens, Gremlins, The Princess Bride, and more!
There will most definitely be free sugary snacks and pop.
Also a truly outrageous award for best dressed!
Don't be buggin!!! Come chill and check out the art!
The gallery is right down the street from us, and this super 80s-centric show was starting in a couple hours. Why the fuck had we not heard of this?! There was even a costume contest! And candy! I quickly donned my awesomely stupid 80s aerobics outfit once again and departed.
Several people with pieces in the show were artists I knew from college, these two ladies named Kat (LimningHouse Illustration, dressed as Jareth) and Claudia (Strange Teeth Illustration, dressed as Sarah) among them. Check out their costumes!
They said they threw these badass Labyrinth costumes together at the last second, only using things they already owned, and had never even dressed as those characters before. I was actually told that I won the costume contest while I was there. I'm not sure how I beat these guys. Their costumes and art won my heart.
You can see the art pieces for sale from the gallery show, here. There was some really cool stuff.
And here's a gallery of more wacky 80s outfits people wore to the show.
And finally, here are a bunch of pictures of my full 80s aerobics outfit that Adam took the day after GR8bit Live. Enjoy!
